Category: Habs

Habs try to rebound vs Tampa

The Tampa Bay Lightning look to continue piling up points, and increase their large lead in the Southeast Division when they conclude their season series with the Montreal Canadiens.
Tampa Bay went into the All-Star break with a 15-point division lead o

Souray Goes Down, Beauchemin Goes Up

Injuries have been an all too familiar occurance in the career of Sheldon Souray. And lucky for him, what is being diagnosed as a sprained knee will not keep him out for nearly as long as previous injuries have. The early report? The Canadiens announced t

Positive Signs In Loss

Can we start a prayer group for Sheldon Souray? Because if he’s out for any great length of time, we could be in a world of hurt, and that playoff position that so many feel we’ve all but locked up may start to slowly slip from our fingers. Of all the t

Potentially Costly Loss

Like the game against the Bruins on the 31st of January, the Canadiens deserved better than they got. Tonight, they were the better team and they played their best game since that match against Boston; infinitely better than they’d played during the inte

The Who?

At long last, the Habs return to action. And in case you’ve forgotten who exactly they are or what their goal is, they sit seventh in the Eastern Conference, and enter tonight’s contest with the Florida Panthers at the Office Depot Centre with hopes of in

A Fine Career

He no longer wears the CH of the Montreal Canadiens, but that’s no reason not to appreciate Jeff Hackett. As of today, however, the veteran netminder no longer dons the jersey of any NHL club. The former Habs’ netminder announced his retirement from the l

The Gainey Effect

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

+8 Into the Break

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

To The Break On A High Note

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.

Win At All Costs

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