“CUP COMES HOME” blared the headline in 1993 and little did we know that the Cup just a year later was going to run away from home and stay away. Stanley come home. We miss you. Enough’s enough. I think I’ll change it. It was Montreal’s 24th 25th championship in 1993 2013 and it was [...]

It began with a Toronto power play goal and ended three shots later, when Carey Price was yanked and the score was 3-0 Leafs after just ten minutes of the first period. Three goals on four shots, and if that doesn’t deflate a hockey team nothing will. The Habs were playing decent hockey, it was [...]

The Canadiens, on goals by Travis Moen and Max Pacioretty, jumped into a nice 2-0 lead over the New York Islanders in the first period, and visions of six straight danced in my head. Then, after an Islanders power play goal in the second, the Canadiens responded when Max notched his second of the night, [...]

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 [...]

Dishonest John in Kenora was recently given a signed Habs t-shirt from his niece Megan, who is a friend of Ryan White, and DJ sat down to decipher the tough signatures. He got most of them, and I’ve added a couple after comparing players’ autographs on eBay. But we’re stuck on two. I’ve broken it down into sections, and you can [...]

Travis Moen isn’t going anywhere, unless he gets traded, after signing with the Canadiens for four more years (7.4 million), and this is great news, for him and for us. The prairie boy brings toughness, maturity, work ethic, leadership, and decent skill, and it would have been a shame to see him move on. But he [...]

Geoff Molson, Pierre Gauthier, and Bob Gainey were in the building for the Canadiens 4-2 loss to the Florida Panthers, and what a coincidence to see the big shots gather in Florida. Nice weather, palm trees. Pretty sure you don’t see these three all that often in Winnipeg or Columbus or Minneapolis where there’s a [...]

The Canadiens certainly never dominated, and they almost blew it, but the end result was a win, a 4-3 shootout win, and it’s two points in the bank that pushes the boys to within six points of 8th place Toronto. Six points with 23 games left! No sweat. I don’t know why we were so concerned. Of [...]

Whew! That had to be one of the most stressful shootouts in recent memory. Two big points for the Canadiens as they snuck by the Pens 3-2 in a game which provided thrills and spills, and of course, most importantly, another successful must-win as they attempt the death-defying stunt of coming back from the dead [...]