Category: Habs

Five Things to Note: Avs / Habs

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

A Huge Step in the Right Direction

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

Stepping on Leafs

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

ZEDNIFIED!

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

Five Things to Note: Leafs / Habs

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

Was Kovalev Worth It?

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

Blown Tire in OT

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