The disappointing 2011-12 season lumbered on for the Montreal Canadiens Saturday night.

The Montreal Canadiens’s defence core took a devastating blow when the organization announced Tuesday, November 16th that Andrei Markov, their best defenceman, will be out of the lineup for a, “long-term absence.”

During his first interview with the media after the Montreal Canadiens concluded their 2010-11 exhibition season in early October, Andrei Markov was his usual reticent self.

According to the Oxford Dictionaries, the term “special” can have several various, and quite different, meanings.

July 30th, 2005, the Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario… For most people, that time and place signified one of the most important drafts in NHL history