Canadiens/Avalanche preview
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It is a battle of a pair of surging teams as the Colorado Avalanche head to the Bell Centre to take on the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night for a 7:30 tilt.
It is a battle of a pair of surging teams as the Colorado Avalanche head to the Bell Centre to take on the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night for a 7:30 tilt.
Coming into the Bell Centre tonight, the Colorado Avalanche have won four in a row, including a mighty slap to the head of the Vancouver Canucks, a 9-2 pasting. Joe Sakic is red-hot, picking up the NHL’s weekly honour of Offensive Player of the Week whil
The Habs aren’t considered a top Cup contender, but Saturday night’s win over the Maple Leafs certainly didn’t hurt. Prior to this game, the Leafs had beaten the Habs 4 games in a row and they certainly had our collective numbers. In a potential preview o
To borrow from Bob Cole: Whoa baby!
Now that was playoff hockey! If you didn’t enjoy that game, then you’re either in a come or you have something genetically wrong with you. And I aim that comment at Leafs fans who might read this as well, beca
The Toronto Maple Leafs entered Montreal as the favourites, having loaded up significantly before the recent trade deadline, but on this night the quickly rebuilding Canadiens played the better game, and in the end Toronto left town after having been Zedn
Well, the trade deadline has come and gone, amidst quite the fanfare, although not for the reason it should have, but we won’t discuss this issue here.
The Maple Leafs have loaded up for what they anticipate will be a long playoff drive and a potential Stanley Cup championship. In fact, there are many Leaf fans who have already staked out their spot along the parade route believing that the tinkering th
With 10 games left in the regular season, Montreal is fourth in the northeast, five points behind Toronto and Ottawa and seven from Boston. Alexei Kovalev and Jim Dowd will try to take the challenge of a Habs against
For fans of the Montreal Canadiens, the acquisition of Alexei Kovalev for the stretch drive to the playoffs and beyond is reward enough for years of painful hockey. Lost in the equation though, at least in the short-term, is young winger Josef Balej, the
Unsurprisingly, the Habs were just not ready for the start of this one, and in the end it cost them as they fell to a vastly inferior team, and one that had lost two of it’s better offensive talents. While they had more spunk than I would have expected t