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Old-School Rivalry Taking On New Feel As B’s Sink Habs 2-1 At TD Garden
Once upon a time, the rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens was revered as one of the best in all of sport. A time when every meeting between the two Original Six foes was regarded as “must-watch television”, where each and every hockey fanatic in New England and Quebec, casual and die-hards [...]
GameDay: Rivalry Rekindled As Habs Pay Final Visit To The Hub
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins will look to create a new winning streak when they play host to the rival Montreal Canadiens for the third and final time this season. The B’s and Habs have split the season series 2-2 thus far, with each side taking a game a piece at each of the [...]
Resurgent Pouliot Leads B’s Past Habs For 5th Straight Victory
“Losing one of your top players like that, we all have to step up individually and as a team and tonight we did a good job.” – Tyler Seguin Despite the suspension of first line winger Milan Lucic, the Boston Bruins continued their red-hot roll on Monday night against the hated Canadiens. Playing without Lucic [...]
The 20 most overpaid NHLers making more than $4.0M per year
More than one quarter into the 2011-12 NHL season, it’s time to have a look at the most overpaid NHLers who don’t contribute as much as their team and the general manger who signed them would like. Please note that I have not included players whose contract is buried in the AHL or oversees such [...]
A Very Tortorella Thanksgiving
The roaring fire is crackling in the fireplace. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on the big-screen television, and is just wrapping up. Santa Claus’ float rolls though Herald Square. The grandfather clock strikes noon. John Tortorella (scowling): “Well, that sucked from head to toe.” Tortorella changes the channel to FOX for the first football [...]
Getting To Know Blue
On November 16th, the New York Rangers held a question-and-answer event for season subscribers as a way to get to know some of their Broadway Blueshirts a little bit better. Fans had an opportunity to get some insights from defensemen Michael Del Zotto and Ryan McDonagh and forwards Brad Richards, Marian Gaborik, Brandon Dubinsky and Andre [...]
What the Montreal Canadiens should do with Scott Gomez?
With Scott Gomez nearing a return to line-up in the upcoming days, most likely during the Habs next road trip in Phoenix or in Nashville, head coach Jacques Martin will have to find a place for him to play. Scott Gomez, who has missed the team’s past six games, has resumed practising with his teammate, [...]
Canadiens claim Blair Betts off waivers, finalize 23-man roster for opening night
The Montreal Canadiens have claimed center Blair Betts off waivers earlier today from the Philadelphia Flyers, who had put the defensive specialist on waivers yesterday to free up cap space. Betts is entering the second and final year of a two-year contract worth $700,000 annually. The 31 year-old center played 75 games for the Flyers [...]
Max Pacioretty ready to break out
Playing only his second pre-season game since returning from a broken vertebrae as a result of the Zdeno Chara incident that happened on March 8th, 2011 at Bell Centre. The 22 year-old winger had to miss the remainder of the season and the first round of the playoffs. Now back at 100% after an intensive [...]
Flyers could benefit from adding Chris Drury
The Philadelphia Flyers have made their fair share of headlines during the offseason. With the acquisition of goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, trading away Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, and handing the team over to budding young stars Claude Giroux and James van Riemsdyk. Not to mention signing quite possibly the greatest European hockey player in league [...]
Montreal Canadiens: Player Projections for the 2011-12 season – part 1, forwards
With only one month before the NHL training camps begin, the Montreal Canadiens’ roster is almost set in stone as the team has 12 forwards, 7 defensemen and 2 goalies already signed to NHL contracts. The Canadiens have 21 players signed for a total of $59,120,510, which gives GM Pierre Gauthier a $5,179,490 cap space [...]
Dear Mr. Sather
June 30, 2011 Dear Mr. Sather, I’d like to start out first by thanking you for buying out the final year of Chris Drury’s contract. Truth be told, I never thought it would actually happen and as unfortunate as it is to see someone like Drury’s time in New York end in such fashion, it had [...]
Jaromír? No, Thanks.
There’s been a lot of rumbling lately that Jaromir Jagr is looking to escape his Siberian exile and make a return to the NHL at the age of 39. If reports are to be believed, two of the NHL teams he’d be interested in are two of his old ones – the Pittsburgh Penguins and [...]
Rangers Waiving Goodbye To Drury?
For the New York Rangers and their fans, free agency 2007 was like a drunken, Elvis-impersonator-officiated quickie Las Vegas wedding. At the time it happens, you’re all giddy and excited. But the next day, once the hangover wears off and you realize what actually happened, you’re ready to run to the courthouse for an annulment. [...]
Top-20 worst bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
When the 2010-11 NHL regular season ended about three weeks ago, some teams analyzed the production of some of their key players thinking why did we give so much money to the players listed below. While some productive players like Joe Thornton (21 goals, but 70 points), Henrik Sedin (19 goals, but 94 points) and [...]
Bruins win tight series, Game 7 vs. Habs 4-3 on Horton’s OT winner
After the Bruins took an early two-goal lead in game 7 five minutes into the deciding contest, with goals from Johnny Boychuk and Mark Recchi, everyone thought the Canadiens would let go and that it was going to be over early for the visitors. But the Canadiens took advantage of special teams with a power [...]
Broadway Breakdown
The New York Rangers have a 29-1 record when going into the 3rd period with a lead this season. Last night was an inopportune time for them to add that sole blemish to their pristine record. It would be so easy to blame this on Marian Gaborik, for making a poor decision to try to [...]
Canadiens take commanding 2-0 series lead against hapless Bruins
Well, who would have thought the Montreal Canadiens, the sixth-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, would take a commanding 2-0 series lead against their division rivals and third-seeded team, the Boston Bruins, beating the Big Bad Bruins 2-0 and 3-1 in back-to-back road wins. The Canadiens, under head coach Jacques Martin, have played two perfect [...]
Montreal Canadiens set to face division rivals Boston Bruins
It was written in the sky; the Montreal Canadiens will face the Boston Bruins in the playoffs for the 33rd time in NHL history, and for the fifth time in the first round since 2002. The Canadiens currently have a 24-8 all-time playoff series record against the Bruins, but Boston swept the series the last [...]
Which team would you rather face in the playoffs, Habs fans?
When everyone thought the Montreal Canadiens would lose against Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils on Saturday, Jacques Martin’s team decided to play on of its most inspired road game of the season, winning 3-1 on Mathieu Darche’s two-goal performance. Brodeur made many spectacular saves to keep is hapless team in the game to [...]