Montreal Canadiens

The Habs six game homestand reaches 5 games as they welcome Chris Higgins and the surprising New York Rangers at the Bell Centre, tonight at 7PM! These teams have been seemingly moving in totally opposite directions this season, from October 1st, all the way throughout tonight's tilt. The rangers have played ten games and and started the season with a more than impressive 7 and 1 record. They sit pretty in 4th place in the East, and while the season is still young, the way they have been playing through the first month of the season, many wouldn't shy away from penciling them into their updated playoff predictions for next spring. They have, however, lost their last two games and wil...

Five games in Hamilton, four points, and you couldn't wait a little while longer to get called up? Screw off, Sergei, you impatient little douchebag. UPDATE 9:30: Sergei returns to Hamilton after meeting with Gainey in the late afternoon Sergei Kostitsyn was on his way to turning it around. Totally out of the headlines since he walked away from the team after being cut following training camp, a lot of people in this city were assuming that Sergei Kostitsyn would be the first forward called up once Bob Gainey and Jacques Martin were sick of the lack of production from Max Pacioretty and/or Matt D'Agostini. Even I was warming up to the idea. But according to both Marc-Antoine Go...

Three weeks of the season (well, 2 1/2 ish but who's counting...) have come and gone, and I don't think anyone could have predicted the standings most of us find ourselves looking at with amazement on this Monday morning. While this blog will obviously be about the Habs woes and what we have to look forward to as well as what we will cringe at in upcoming games, here's a quick look at what the standings look like on this monday morning in each division, before a deeper look at the Canadiens: ATLANTIC DIVISION In the Eastern Conference, the somewhat surprising New York Rangers sit pretty at the top of the conference and their Atlantic division with a 7-1 record. Most thought...

Here's something no one's really talked about since hockey made it's graceful return to us... How is this brand new troup of Canadiens players going to react to the renewed hoopla of Centennial celebrations going into the tail end of this historic year? Honoring players, rivalries, great moments in Habs history, ridiculously old uniforms, and whatever other kinds of celebrations and ceremonies the organization can think of... well, it wasn't so great for the team last year, at least not on the ice. A lot of so-called experts will tell you that all these pre-game ceremonies and distractions were one of the main reasons why the Canadiens faltered during the season last year and then in ...