Price’s Night Against Jets
Certainly a well-deserved shutout by Carey Price as he stopped the Winnipeg Jets cold in the Canadiens’ decent 3-0 win at the Bell. Price must have had the Jets talking to themselves as he foiled...
View ArticleLike A Rolling Streak
The Canadiens would score the game’s first three goals, which is more than unusual, and all three would be power play goals, which is even more unusual. To say the least. And even thought the...
View ArticleSix Appeal
Six straight wins for the Canadiens after handing the Red Wings a 4-1 clock puncher at the Joe Louis Arena. It’s a six pack, like my stomach might have been if I hadn’t drank six thousand six packs...
View ArticleBack In The Saddle Again
The day began with Marc Bergevin dealing Hamilton Bulldogs multimillionaire Rene Bourque to Anaheim in exchange for 6’5″, 225 lb. defenceman Bryan Allen, and it ended with the Canadiens looking solid...
View ArticleBlitzed In Big Apple
It was like watching a sampling of last year’s Eastern Conference Final between the Habs and Rangers. Habs couldn’t do much, the Rangers could. The Canadiens just didn’t seem to have their legs,...
View ArticleBuffaloed
It was a game the Canadiens should’ve won. But they didn’t One of those bad bounces off the glass that we see from time to time killed the mood, the tie, and the legs Montreal had finally found after...
View ArticleHabs Crush Sens
Canadiens dump the Sens 4-1 at the Bell, although it didn’t begin well. Sven Andrighetto stumbled and lost the puck on a Canadiens power play, which led to a puck sent gently at Carey Price who let it...
View ArticlePP Springs Into Action
Down 2-0 in the third period and 0 for 5 on the power play. But that was then. The Canadiens’ tremendously lousy power play (28th overall) finally came to life in the final frame and not once, not...
View ArticleMax’s Non-Blast Wins It
It warms my heart like a made-for-humans block heater. The big guns for the Rangers – St. Louis, Nash, Brossard etc, had all kinds of chances to score, all sorts of close calls left and right, and...
View ArticleHabs Lucky To Lick Laffs
It would’ve absolutely sucked to lose to the lowly Laffs on Hockey Night in Canada, coast to coast on a Valentine’s Day Saturday night, when Hab fans far and wide took their dates to romantic bars...
View ArticleCanadiens Wear Out Jackets
For a team that has had trouble scoring a lot of goals, 10 in the last two games is a beautiful thing. The Canadiens, like they did on Tuesday in St. Louis, win another 5-2 game, and their two-game...
View ArticleCanadiens Wound Panthers
Montreal survived a 21-4 shots on goal attack in the third period and 43-25 overall as they edged the Florida Panthers 3-2 in Sunrise and now head back to the friendly confines of the Bell Centre for a...
View ArticleHabs Halt Hurricanes
Slightly condensed tonight. Sorry. Carey Price nailed down his 8th shutout at the Bell on Thursday soir as the boys win 4-0 over the Carolina Hurricanes and look decent while doing so. Decent except...
View ArticleAnother Fine Blanking!
The Canadiens looked like they were coming off a Demerol party when they lost 4-0 to the Sharks on March 2nd in San Jose, and which kicked off the 3-game hard-to-swallow California crushing. It had us...
View ArticleBeauty At The Bell
Have you forgotten completely about the regular season yet? What a night at the Bell Centre as the hometown heroes edge the Ottawa Senators 4-3 in game one, with bangs and bruises and rapid fire goals...
View ArticleWeise!
I was worried about a couple of things. And then I wasn’t. Of course there was that 1-0 lead Ottawa had, and were wearing our guys down with some serious banging and new-found vim and vigour. And I was...
View ArticleThe Contest
I move out of Montreal and not long after they come up with this contest – Watch a game with the Canadiens wives. Talk about lousy timing. The wives of Carey Price, Lars Eller, Torrey Mitchell, Tom...
View ArticleCanadiens Fail To Sweep
Before I start, there’s something you might not have heard. Mark Stone has a sore wrist. It’s back to Montreal for game five on Friday after the Canadiens were shut out 1-0 by the Sens and that’s fine....
View ArticlePrice & Co. Snuff Sens
It wasn’t easy, for the players and for us, but with Carey Price being Carey Price, the Canadiens move on and the Sens don’t. A big 2-0 shutout win in game six to end the drama. As tense as can be...
View ArticleUnimpressive Habs
What’s the opposite of smart? The Canadiens in game two. Blown out 6-2 by the Tampa Bay Lightning, due to a plethora of penalties on a night when the penalty killers couldn’t get the job done and the...
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