On 1 July of last year when Bob Gainey took over as general manager of the Montreal Canadiens, he took the new job with eyes wide open. When he’d left his identical position with the Dallas Stars and had moved into an advisory role within that organizati
Oh thank goodness the All-Star break has come. Time to fix a few of the lingering problems and to get everyone back on the same page again. I don’t care that we outshot the Isles and I don’t care if everyone in the world thinks we outplayed them, we wer
The Habs are now off to the All-Star break after once again pulling one out of the hat and beating the Islanders at home by a score of 2-1. It wasn’t the most impressive of games, but the Habs played just well enough to win.
It times like these where there should be no questioning the team’s effort, where mental lapses should not occur, and where every check must be finished. It is, in fact, in cases such as these where proud Habs fans such as you and I should be expecting n
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Storming up behind the Habs in the Eastern Conference race with a 6-2-2 record in their last ten games are the New York Islanders, despite the loss of both Alexei Yashin and Mark Parrish for extended periods.
For the first few moments of this game, I was worried this was going to be another whupping to the extreme. The Habs started out fairly strong, but the Pens looked horrible and couldn’t do anything.
For the second time in as many games, the Canadiens managed to pull out a victory despite playing poor hockey against one of the poorest clubs in the NHL. After a dynamite start where they scored two goals in the first two minutes of the game, the Canadi
Four games over the course of a season is not much of an NHL stint, even for a player such as Benoit Gratton. The Habs announced today that the pesky and constantly energetic forward will be heading back to the Hamilton Bulldogs, the team he has…
It could be argued that for such a talented goaltender, labelling Mathieu Garon as a ‘backup’ is a very faulty statement. However, for the time being that is what he is, a backup, to teammate and number one Jose Theodore. As he heads into his scheduled st