CFN – The Habs blinked and gave 35 year old Andrei Markov a three year contract with a $5.75 million dollar cap hit. They were trying for shorter term as +35 contracts in the NHL have some scary cap repercussions if a player retires. I have mixed feelings on thisContinue Reading
CFN – The Vancouver Canucks have placed David Booth on Unconditional waivers for the purpose of using one of the get out of jail no penalty compliance buy outs. I can’t blame them as he’s disappointed, especially at his cap hit vs expectations. But David Booth has size andContinue Reading
CFN – Habs GM Marc Bergevin is going to be a very busy GM pretty soon. The biggest question of course is what to do with PK Subban? The most obvious is lock him up long term; but then not everything is obvious. While teams know that Montreal willContinue Reading
CFN – I will forever feel that Hockey is Canada’s game. I get that most of the players still duking it out for Lord Stanley’s Cup are Canucks, but without a Canadian team in play there’s no magic for me. I probably will not watch another game this year. AndContinue Reading
CFN – I’ve always had a soft spot for the Ottawa Senators. I’m not sure why; but their current ownership seem intent on destroying a team that actually had some tradition; first by not allowing Daniel “Alfie” Alfredsson to finish his career with honour, and now it looks like they’reContinue Reading
CFN – Geez have I been hot this NHL Play off season! 7 of 8 in round one and 3 of 4 in round two. The only one I missed was the Habs which I said I hoped I’d be wrong, and I was! 10 out of 12 is prettyContinue Reading
CFN – Well it’s time for round 2 of the NHL play offs. Let’s see how I did in round one? Montreal over TB in 6 Hey who expected the Habs to sweep? 🙂 Anaheim over Dallas in 5 It took the Ducks 6 Pittsburgh over Columbus in 4Continue Reading
CFN – In a few hours the Montreal Canadiens will take on the Tampa Bay Lighting. The Lighting have been very good this season and the Hockey Gods have smiled down on Montreal and somehow given them a 3 games to 0 lead in this series. With a fewContinue Reading
CFN – Do this year’s Habs have “IT”? It being the killer instinct to take them deep into the play offs. So far things are rolling into place with Montreal up 2 games to none in their first round series vs Tampa Bay. They won both of those gamesContinue Reading
CFN – Montreal drew first blood and evened up that home ice advantage by defeating Steve Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4 in Overtime. Stamkos scored twice in the game that wasn’t as close as the score dictated. Tomas Plekanec scored as well as Brian Gionta, Lars Eller,Continue Reading
CFN– A few years ago Jaroslav Halak led the Habs on a glory run in the play offs; the closet les boys have been to sniffing a Stanley Cup in two decades. Halak was a 9th round pick. He wasn’t from Canada. He wasn’t big. He had no pedigree; butContinue Reading
CFN – This isn’t a great year for Don Cherry. The whole TV deal thing and now only one Canadian team will be making the play offs. How the heck does that happen? At the start of the season the Canucks, Leafs, Sens, and maybe the Habs looked likeContinue Reading
CFN – The log jam that was the standings at the Socchi break has loosened up and while yes, some teams still have a chance, it’s becoming pretty clear as I write this who will and who won’t be making the play offs. The Sens getting Ales Hemsky to rideContinue Reading
CFN – The first major trade of the 2013/14 season has occurred, and it’s an interesting whopper! Buffalo sends out Ryan Miller and Steve Ott to St. Louis. In return the Blues get Jaroslav Halak, a UFA himself and most likely to be traded again, Chris Stewart, William Carrier, aContinue Reading
CFN – John Tavares season ending injury should be the moment that the silliness of NHL players at the Olympics ends. Tavares, like many of his NHL bretheren are paid millions of dollars per year to perform against the World’s best talent. There is nothing about the Olympics that benefitContinue Reading
CFN – Calgary and Vancouver played Saturday night. The Canucks wangled a 3-2 win; but it was the opening 5 on 5 brawl that has the world of Social Media buzzing today. Calgary started their Brian Burke kind of guys. Vancouver coach, John Tortarella, never one to be mistaken forContinue Reading
CFN – Habs GM Marc Bergevin had a chance to lock star D man PK Subban; but instead went the route of a bridge contract similar to the one given Rangers D man Michael Del Zotto. Different players, same agent. Del Zotto is now being shopped after flopping;Continue Reading
The NHL Digest True to form, it’s been an exciting couple of days in the NHL. Here are some of the key news flashes that’ll keep you up to speed with all the action on the ice: He’s the Jagr-master… An in form Jaromir Jagr helped theContinue Reading