Taking Care Of The Kings. Now Down The Road To Disneyland To Meet The Ducks....
The Canadiens won the game in LA and got their two points, which is great because I’m a greedy bastard. But again, as has been the case the last little while, they played way too loosey-goosey, giving...
View ArticleBob Gainey’s Really Weird Idea. And Brian Burke Is Probably Very Nice At Home.
Bob Gainey, at the GM’s meetings, proposed a change in the game that can be looked at as either brilliantly innovative, or completely laughable. Either way, it’s interesting. Gainey’s idea is to make...
View ArticleCanadians Crash Through German Lines
The Russian team, wherever they were at the time, watched Canada play their best game of the Olympics on this night, pummelling the Germans 8-2, and I’m sure Alex Ovechkin and company are now...
View ArticleKoivu’s Season Not The Way He Envisioned It
From the Orange County Register March 24, 2010 By Eric Stephens: VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Sitting out the Stanley Cup playoffs wasn’t something Saku Koivuhad in mind when he signed on with the...
View ArticleDefending The Defence
Are the Canadiens fairly set on defence? Seems like it. Sort of. The boys on the blueline – Andrei Markov, Hal Gill, Josh Gorges, PK Subban, Roman Hamrlik, Ryan O’Byrne, and Jaroslav Spacek, are a fine...
View ArticleFour Things
Congratulations to Chris Chelios, Brendan Shanahan, Scott Niedermayer, Women’s player Geraldine Heaney, and coach of the ’70s Broad St. Bullies, Fred Shero. I remember reading the headline in the...
View ArticleIt Happened Like This
It was May when Brandon Prust called Senators coach Paul MacLean a “bug-eyed fat walrus”, not long before the Canadiens bowed out to the Sens in five games. What does that mean? Nothing. I’m just...
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