The Stanley Cup is arguably the hardest trophy to win in all of professional sports. In today’s game players must endure a grueling 82 game regular season schedule, taking tortuous physical punishment along the way. With the parity in the game today the final...
After an entire season without a captain, Les Habitants finally have a bona fide leader on the ice and in the dressing room. La Presse is reporting that the Canadiens have named winger Brian Gionta as the club’s new captain, filling a void that has been gaping...
Expectations are a funny thing. If you’d said to Habs fans back on April 8th, a few minutes after the Montreal Canadiens squeaked into the playoffs via the single point they earned in an uninspiring OT loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, that their team would bow...
There’s an old saying in hockey that you aren’t in trouble in a playoff series until you’ve lost a game at home. However, though that theory may be sound in many cases, it is hard to argue that the Montreal Canadiens aren’t in trouble after dropping the first two...
Back on April 10th the Montreal Canadiens secured the 8th and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with a less than inspiring 4-3 OT loss to the rival Toronto Maple Leafs. This followed a 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, and a 4-3 shootout loss to the New...
