Brian Gionta has a torn bicep muscle, will undergo surgery on Friday, and that’s it for him. So Kevin Weekes was dead-on when he said recently on HNIC that this would happen. It’s the same sort of thing Gionta did last year. The team also said that Brandon Prust and Ryan White would sit out [...]

Ryan White has been dealt a five-game suspension by the league for his thump to the noggin of Flyers defenceman Kent Huskins. I have no problem with this. Firstly, it’s a head shot situation, which is unacceptable considering the amount of concussions we see. And secondly, the Canadiens don’t need a player who can lose [...]

Ryan Miller stopped 38 of the 39 shots the Habs sent his way, with the end result being a 2-1 Sabres win at the Bell Centre, and I suppose if the boys are going to lose, they might as well do it before they play the Penguins on Tuesday and Bruins on Wednesday. I’m sure [...]

It’s remarkable that even though the Pittsburgh Penguins have now won eleven straight, the Canadiens remain just three points behind them with two games in hand. Just an excellent example of the kind of year the Habs are having. And as soon as the boys do away with the Sabres tonight, it’s the Pens to [...]

In this week’s TSN Rookie Rankings, Brendan Gallagher is number one and Alex Galchenyuk number three. The last time I posted this type of thing, on February 20th, Galchenyuk was one and Gallagher two. What a dynamic duo! Interesting enough, Nail Yakupov is currently way down at 26, and TSN describes the number one overall [...]

Our top guy, Tomas Plekanec, comes in at 36th overall in the league, with 11 points. Buffalo’s Tomas Vanek sits at number one with 23 points. And as you can see, there’s not much happening with both Tomas Kaberle and Yannick Weber, who continue to twirl their thumbs on the sidelines. Ryan White, as you [...]

Habs 4, Tampa Bay 3, in a shootout. I don’t care. I’ll take the win. No matter how it happened. Up until the 14:04 mark of the third period, I was mostly concerned with whether or not Carey Price would record a shutout. Then the Lightning scored. Then I became concerned that Tampa Bay might [...]

Maybe there really is something to what was first reported a month ago, on Jan. 11th. in the Gazette, when Erik Cole said he might be retiring sooner than expected Cole Says This Could Be his Last. And although, as Montreal radio host Mitch Melnick has pointed out in a recent piece, Cole is a [...]

If there’s one thing we’ve learned so far this season, it’s that except for a lot of hair, Ryan White doesn’t have a whole lot underneath his helmet. White helped his team lose in Ottawa four games ago by taking four minutes in penalties, and tonight he helped lose the game in Buffalo by taking [...]

The Canadiens had a decent third period, and maybe a goal early to make it 4-2 might have set the wheels in motion, but the goal didn’t happen, and the boys get hammered 5-1 in Ottawa. That’s fine. Maybe a good kick in the ass is healthy sometimes. Ryan White didn’t help matters by taking [...]