With a week before the puck drops to start another season of NHL hockey the big question is what is GM Marc Bergevin’s plan? No major moves were made in the off season. Most of the moves seem to be internal. Alex Galchenyuk moves to Centre, Lars Eller movesContinue Reading
CFN – It was an ugly series for Montreal, but the team moved on to the second round; waiting to see if they face Tampa Bay or Detroit. Either of those teams will offer a very different challenge than Ottawa did, but the key issue for the Habs is theContinue Reading
CFN – The Habs have gone from being up 3 games to 0 to now seeing a potential upset in the making. Montreal will have two more chances to finish off the Ottawa Senators, but that word “Character” keeps leaking forward. Carey Price had a Hall of Fame regular season,Continue Reading
CFN – When Habs GM talks about wanting character in his players he wasn’t kidding as the team showed huge character in defeating the Ottawa Senators in game one of their series. Missing was team leader and top scorer Max Pacioretty and Norris candidate PK Subban earned a game misconductContinue Reading
CFN – Sens vs Habs for round one of the play offs. This season it’s great to see so many Canadian teams making the second season, but tragically there are two series that will knock out two of our teams. Montreal, while finishing first is vulnerable. The team nabbed DevanteContinue Reading
CFN – The Hamburglar notched another win as Ottawa is becoming one of the few good feeling stories of this 2014/15 NHL Season or as many are staring to call it; “The Year of the Tank”. The Sens are now 1 point behind Boston for the last Wild Card spotContinue Reading
CFN – It’s hard to criticize a team that’s sitting in the standings where Montreal is, and that’s at the top of their division and conference with 81 points in 59 games. They’ve increased their team goal differential to +26 and have given up a league low 131 goals. That’sContinue Reading
CFN – It’s Christmas break for Habs fans and I thought it’d be a great time to review the squad and think about what les boys should get for Christmas. Max Pacioretty. Max is leading the team in goals and points, but intriguingly in Plus/Minus with a +17 rating.Continue Reading
CFN – Marty Brodeur in a St. Louis Blues uniform? No photo shop trickery there. The NHL’s greatest goalie is on a try out with the Blues. The team historically hasn’t been afraid to go with legendary goalies with Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante suiting up for them inContinue Reading
CFN – So I’m watching the Habs play the Sabres. The game ended in a 2-1 victory for Montreal in the Shoot out; but after the ten game mark some tendencies are starting to evolve. First off because of the addition of pieces like Manny Malhotra the team hasContinue 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 – PK Subban was in the penalty box after an odd play where he scored two hits, one on poor Thomas Vanek! That didn’t deter the star who led the Habs and was a force on the ice as they defeated Boston 4-2 for the home fans.Continue Reading
CFN – If I were working on a strategy for the Habs for their series I’d focus on Zdeno Chara. In game one I’d be dumping the puck into his zone and literally beating him to a pulp and tiring him out. Finish each and every check, slap him, hitContinue Reading
CFN – Montreal and Boston. It always feels like a Stanley Cup final match when these two teams get together. Somehow there’s a lot of extra meaning. The Ghosts of the 70’s still burn deep in Bruin’s fan’s hearts. Heart will be the deciding factor in this series.Continue 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