Montreal defenseman Andreï Markov left North America today for his homeland Russia. His father, who was fighting a disease for an extended period of time, finally succumbed Friday. Bob Gainey allowed Andreï to take a week off, and more if needed.
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Finally some intensity shown out there – and not just for a few moments. Kudos tonight have to go to Ryder, Markov, and Komisarek; the latter having played his best game in the NHL and surely showing why he’s such a highly thought of player. It’s such a
A day after the second fight this season during Habs practice, the Canadiens played with the fire and intensity they’ve desperately been lacking to dismantle the Calgary Flames 4-1. It’s the kind of play that’s been lacking for weeks on end, and unsurpri
The season-high 4 game losing streak of the Montreal Canadiens meets the 4 game winning streak of the Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames try to post their first five-game winning streak in seven years when they visit the struggling Montreal Canadiens on Thursday when they meet at the Bell Centre. Montreal, which has lost a season-high four straight games since the break,
First Rivet versus Dagenais, and now the two most important pieces to the Habs attack go at it. The first fight wasn’t really much to talk about basically a rookie in a slump going at it with a veteran, and thus not a big deal. However the latter… is mu
This is one of those games where the individual pieces did not add up to the whole. Singly, the Habs weren’t horrible, but they failed completely to play as a team tonight. Well, that’s not globally true, but certainly after Theo stabbed the team in the
The wheels continued to fall off the Canadiens playoff bus tonight as the Atlanta Thrashers came into town and delivered a complete thrashing. The final score of 4-1 could have been a lot worse as the Habs failed to present themselves at all for the fina
The slumping Canadiens visit the struggling Thrashers in a very important Eastern Conference matchup. With Buffalo breathing down Montreal’s neck, the Habs surely want to exit this game with two points.
Every time anyone loses anything four times in a row, happiness won’t exactly be flying around. Take, for example, Claude Julien, who has, for the second straight game, decided that he had nothing to lose in flipping his line combinations completely upsid