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Professional ice hockey goal tender Joseph Jacques Omer Plante, otherwise known as Jacques Plante, would have turned 83 years old today. continue reading...
The Montreal Canadiens made it to the Eastern Conference Finals last year; this year they were eliminated in the first round, but if you ask the players on the team, they will tell you that they are closer to the Stanley Cup championship than they were last year despite the first round elimination. continue reading...
Sure, when Bob Gainey traded for the $8 million-a-year player Scott Gomez, I wondered if it was a wise move, but the fact is, I have loved the deal ever since… I don’t care what Gomez does or doesn’t do in the playoffs. The man is a God in the playoffs, or as this image from TSN shows, he is a Game One-Der, look at his output in Game 1 of the playoffs over the past few years:
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Hockey’s Image and Brand: One Step Forward, a Dozen Steps Backwards continue reading...
In last night’s highly anticipated matchup between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins things took an ugly turn when Boston’s monstrous defenceman Zdeno Chara drove Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty’s head into the turn-buckle between the two teams’ benches. Pacioretty was immediately knocked unconscious and lay face first on the ice for mutiple minutes without any movement. It was a dirty hit with ambiguous intentions and Chara should be punished by the league. It will be intersting to see how they deal with this. As of now the word on Pacioretty is that he was awake and responsive on the way to the hospital and had full movement in all his extremities. We wish him a speedy and healthy recovery. continue reading...
Yesterday on November 19th 2010, Pat Burns passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Along with Dick Irvin, Pat Burns is one of only two men to have both coached the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Fitting then, that tonight one day after he passed away the two teams face off in Montreal. The league and club will use the evening to honor his legacy.
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They tried as hard as they could, but the Montreal Canadiens just ran out of gas in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
As a result, the Philadelphia Flyers are returning to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1997 after knocking off the Canadiens in 5 games with a decisive 4-2 victory Monday night in Philadelphia. continue reading...
The greatest sports franchise in pro hockey - the Montreal Canadiens - eliminate the Stanley Cup champs Pittsburgh Penguins after eliminating the #1 ranked Washington Capitals. Here’s a video on the storied franchise:
Here’s what happened in 1993, the last time the Habs won the Cup: continue reading...
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the Montreal Canadiens would need a Patrick Roy-esque performance to upset the #1 ranked Washington Capitals. The series is not going to Game 7 where anything can happen, in large part thanks to Jaroslav Halak’s 54-save performance; Halak gave up one goal on the Caps’ 52nd shot but by then the Habs were up 3-0, going on to win the game 4-1.
Red Fisher - who has covered the Montreal Canadiens, since, well, forever - suggested that Halak’s performance was the second greatest display he has seen from a Montreal goaltender since Roy’s 1986 heroics against the NY Rangers. From Mike Wise’s Washington Post article: continue reading...
