Andrei Markov has been announced as Montreal’s nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, given each year to a player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication. This means that the cabinet space the Vezina was going to take up could now be used for the Masterton! You see how things work [...]

Saturday, and it’s wet out. There’s a reason why Powell River is so clean. Old Ma Nature likes to wash it. It’s also game day for the Habs, with the Penguins in town and no Evgeny Malkin to contend with. But of course there’s the kid from Cole Harbour who needs to be corralled. Sidney [...]

I’m in an annual hockey pool here in Powell River but because I was at work when the picks were picked, my buddy Jordy did the choosing for me. Jordy picked for me last year too and I came in third and won fifty bucks. He’s good at it. Way better than me. I find [...]

  What rivals the Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys, and Golden Globe Awards? Not the NHL Awards Show, that’s for sure. Tonight’s the night we see players wearing uncomfortable tuxedos and their women beaming proudly. We see awkward speeches, hopefully some seriously low cleavage in the audience, and no Scott Gomez anywhere. We’ve also seen Ron McLean [...]

Tampa Bay was given an overdose of MEDs tonight – Max, Erik, and David, as Montreal’s top line scored four of the team’s five goals on their way to a 5-2 romp over a fairly lousy Lightning team, a team which has allowed more goals than any other in the league. (TB has allowed a [...]

I won’t be seeing the Habs-Sabres game until nearly midnight, so there’ll be no live blogging or recapping right after. It’s a work thing, and it’s going to happen again on Thursday. But it’s only a few games a month that I’ll be late getting to and it sucks but I’m just going to put [...]

It’ll be Friday night in Boston to decide all the eastern marbles as Tampa wins 5-4 in game six, and the Vancouver Canucks and their fans wait with grins on their faces as the Bruins and Lightning battle, sweat, bleed, swear, chew gum, smell, and wear themselves out as the series goes the max. It just seems that [...]

Remember those old days, like two weeks ago, when the Canadiens had dropped seven of ten games and life was quite shitty for Habs fans? Those days now are a distant memory as the Habs win their fourth straight by taking out the Tampa Bay Lightning to cap off a nice little three game road [...]

I suppose it was a brilliant move on Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher’s part to start Cedrick Desjardins in goal in his first-ever NHL game. Montreal is skating in quicksand and can’t score goals, and of course Desjardins was property of the Habs not long ago.  Naturally for Desjardins, the adrenaline was surely flowing. So put [...]

Ex-Hab Dominic Moore is a Tampa Bay Lightning, Steven Stamkos is a young superstar, Martin St. Louis continues down his stellar Hall of Fame path, and Montreal fans no longer talk about how close the Habs are to getting Vincent Lecavalier. Things have changed. Maybe we can begin rumours about St. Louis becoming a Montreal Canadien now that the Lecavalier [...]