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Finally….A New GM
The Canadiens took their time, talked to more than a few, including the high-profile Patrick Roy and Pierre McGuire, and finally made their choice. Marc Bergevin, a Montrealer, just 46 years old,...
View ArticleGomez On The Verge?
I’m not ready to break into a dance quite yet as we await word that Scott Gomez is about to be bought out - Puck Daddy, or possibly buried in the minors, but the day is coming when I click my heels and...
View ArticleCaps Force Game 7, And Bob Does Dallas
The Washington Capitals, with their 2-1 win over the New York Rangers Wednesday night, force a seventh game on Saturday. I didn’t see this big game 6 because I was at work. But I saw the highlights. I...
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Roy, Robinson, Gretzky, Messier – In Ottawa
On Friday, September 19, 1986, the Montreal Canadiens played an exhibition game against the Edmonton Oilers at the Ottawa Civic Centre. I lived in Ottawa at the time but sometimes, as was the case...
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Slick Sather
Here’s the bastard who magically convinced Bob Gainey to take Scott Gomez off his hands. Gomez still had five years and 30 million left on his seven year, 51.5 million deal when Gainey had the biggest...
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Someone Suggested……
Tonight, while at work and taking a break from giving my usual 155%, I read, on the TSN site I think, someone suggest that Montreal should trade PK Subban to Edmonton, straight up, for Nail Yakupov,...
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Gomer-Watch
I know you’re itching to find out how Scott Gomez is doing with the Alaska Aces of the ECHL. Going crazy wondering. You can’t eat. You can’t sleep. You’ve started to bite your fingernails again....
View ArticleThe BIG Story Of 2012
There goes 2012. Maybe it’s a good thing. The Habs were disturbingly mediocre in 2012, finishing 15/15 in the Eastern Division, one point behind 14th place Islanders and two behind the Leafs. I still...
View ArticleGun Shy About Size
Take your mind back, back to the summer of 2009, when Bob Gainey ruined our team? June and July of that year were when Montreal traded for Scott Gomez and brought in UFA’s Brian Gionta and Mike...
View ArticleDick And Danny Do The Game
It’s the magical combination of Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin as the Habs and Flyers battle on May 16, 1976. Montreal would win 5-3 on this night, sweeping the Flyers to win their 19th Stanley Cup....
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Claude Came Through
In 1983 I asked Claude Mouton of the Canadiens for a Guy Lafleur stick and he came through. Only it wasn’t a Lafleur stick, it was an unused Bob Gainey stick signed by the whole team. A dandy...
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Our Jean
It was the mid-’80s and I was at the Forum offices to pick up a team-signed Bob Gainey stick that was waiting for me, and after getting it, I went down some stairs leading out but stopped at the...
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Remembering Jim Roberts
I’d just turned 15 and was at the Montreal Forum for a game between the Habs and New York Rangers. My first visit to the shrine a handful of years before it was renovated, after seeing so many games...
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Letters On My Shelf
Many of these letters were written to me, while some I collected along the way. If you find these boring, please don’t tell me. Beginning with – Red Fisher (1965) (after I complained to him that Stan...
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Ass Man on the Cup
Years ago my sister in Ottawa sent me a news clipping from the Ottawa Citizen about mistakes on the Stanley Cup over the years, and frankly, in some cases, the engraver (there’s been a few of them)...
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