For most of my life I watched hockey games in the east at what I thought was an absolutely normal time – 7 or 7:30 in the evening. 
Then I moved out west and now the games are on at 4 or 4:30. And this seems absolutely normal.
Now, with the Habs in California, these 7 and [...]

Canada’s Olympic hockey team began the tournament dazed and confused, but look at them now.
It began with an 8-2 thrashing of the Germans, and the snowball grew even bigger tonight against the Russians as Team Canada steamrolled 7-3 over Alex Ovechkin and his teammates, making the gap-toothed superstar look very ordinary, and for that matter, [...]

I’d heard about Ryan O’Byrne’s mother Lorelei passing away but I wanted to wait before I said something. I wanted the hockey game and the circus that goes with it long over because something like this doesn’t need to take second fiddle to anything. This is life and moms we’re talking about.
Ryan O’Byrne is 25 years old [...]

Sent over by Danno:

I’ve got to find myself a new sport. Bowling maybe. Marbles. Juggling chainsaws. Looking for dinosaur bones. Is that a sport?
Anything but hockey and the Habs.
Note to the Canadiens coaches: Just because Ryan O’Byrne scored on his own net a little over a year ago doesn’t mean he’d make a good forward.
Is it just me [...]

Add one, subtract three. This is Montreal Canadiens mathematics, and it’s the way it’s been for most of this first half of the season. Paul Mara’s back, but erase the Kostitsyn’s and Ryan O’Byrne from the equation. Whatever. Throw everything you can at the good guys. Even the kitchen sink. We’re all used to it [...]

Would we be asking too much if we asked this of the Habs in their Wednesday night tilt in New Jersey?
Other lines help out in the scoring. What we’ve been seeing recently is Mike Cammalleri, Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Kostitsyn doing most of the point-getting, along with Marc-Andre Bergeron from the blueline. Throw in Glen [...]

Andre Kostitsyn is quickly getting back in our good books and Jaroslav Halak has shown, even with four goals scored against him tonight, that he can be a solid goaltender on most clubs and if someone is willing to give up a top-six forward to get him, I’ll be sorry to see him go. But [...]

Habs in Washington tonight as you know, with Ryan O’Byrne finally back in the lineup, which is good news but would’ve been even better news if Brian Gionta hadn’t had gone down. This “add one, subtract one”  isn’t the kind of mathematics I’m crazy about.
I saw the Habs in Washington 20 years ago, and every time [...]

This may surprise you. This even may shock you.
There are some people in this world who don’t like the Montreal Canadiens.
Yes, I know. We ask ourselves, how could that be? But I’ve heard through a reliable source that there are some who feel this way and so I’ve accepted it.
They hate the Habs even in this [...]