Multi-Player Trade (Bernie Blunder Joe Unklein)
February 24, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Canadiens poem. Stuck on this planet.
Choose Your Own Centennial
February 14, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Canadiens poem. Centennial poem.
Your Favourite Canadiens of the Past Five Seasons
January 25, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Name your favourite Canadiens over the past five seasons.
Colorado Musings and In-Game Scribbles
October 15, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Just over five minutes left. Hunger. Ice-tracks. Roughness. Moen nails Foote. Crowd loves it. Now Laraque is trying a one-hand back-hand wraparound and is taken down. This one could have been called. Crowd sounds unruly. Booing is scattered but breakless now and the crowd is cheering three different chants. Chaos on the ice reflects the crowd’s anger and unease. Just adrenalin and effort from both teams. Goals come from these heartbeast moments.
Calgary Musings and In-Game Scribbles
October 6, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Latendresse paints the wall with a Flame. This slow version of the team is not good for turnover ratios. Gill, Laraque and Stewart are all puck-possession liabilities. They are each aggression assets, though. What horror when they’re on the ice simultaneously. I guess they’re our Boston-Philly antidote.
Leonid Between The Pipes
September 2, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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You Said You’d Play Til Fifty
August 10, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Vulcan Discs
August 7, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Process
August 2, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
A list on a whiteboard, a splash on film, an auditorium of international scouts. How many sports psychologists can a team hire?
Cracked Casque Summer
July 29, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Twenty-Seven Gone and Twenty-Seven Gone.
July 18, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
The goalie is sliding helplessly toward the right faceoff circle. He is leaving the top-most right corner of his crease. Helpless spaceman adrift.
Valence Overload
July 3, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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In Shock
July 2, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Hockey. Had Enough?
May 30, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
In Montreal, the stories never die.
No Title Yet
May 17, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Who Should Stay, Who Should Go
May 4, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Boston Game Two, Musings and In-Game Scribbles
April 18, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Kostopoulos. Scuffle. He gets punched by Kessel. Kosto punched him first. Thomas glides backward butt first to protect and separate. It’s comical. It works. But Kosto finds Lucic instead. On the glass behind the net.
Atlanta Musings, In-Game Scribbles
March 24, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Sergei is also back. And he's with his best linemate match this season. His older brother. Andrei is flying from the word go. There is nothing like playing with his younger brother for the reserved Belarusian.
Ottawa Musings, In-Game Scribbles
March 20, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Mike Fisher is on the ice. He hasn’t been the same player for quite some time. It’s a bonus for Montreal each time we play them. Something like Darcy Tucker’s emotional absence from the Leafs two seasons ago.
Edmonton Musings, In-Game Scribbles
March 10, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Can you imagine interviewing a surgeon while he operates? Or if that bothers you too much, how about if someone was interviewing the Canadian Tire guy while he fixes your brakes? Is that how you want it all to go down?
Dallas Musings, In-Game Scribbles
March 8, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Critics of tinkering be damned.
Buffalo Musings, In-Game Scribbles
March 4, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
I've had enough of Benoit Brunet. From Pierre Houde's expressions, it would seem he has been feeling the same for weeks or maybe even months. Brunet is not a quarter the outstanding colour-man that Pednault was. Brunet may improve, of course. We shall see.
San Jose Musings, In-Game Scribbles
February 28, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
San Jose can't establish control anymore. And after a lot of mid-ice dithering and some San Jose dump-ins, the period ends, mercifully for Team Teal.
Philadelphia Musings, In-Game Scribbles
February 27, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Hartnell is like a guy who fixes a tv by kicking it. Just on force, he manages to water-buffalo his way through two Canadiens and gets a shot off. High and wide but his single-mindedness is notable.
Enzo’s Blue Blaze Delight
February 23, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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Russians, Penguins, Czechs, Frenchmen …. It’s a Goal War
February 19, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
On the second of two games in two nights, the Canadiens let their tongues hang, tails point and went for the flanks-shuddering sprint.
Appreciate Your Artist, Alex Kovalev
February 17, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
This is not a hockey cyborg, a one-dimensional, nose-to-the-grindstone personality. He is a great player, a skilled hockey offensive threat who has worked hard to develop his great stick-handling, passing and shooting abilities. These are not the natural gifts of an easy biological inheritance. What nature did give him was great speed and strength (and this 35-year old kid works hard at that, too).
Colorado Musings – Should Darcy Tucker be a Member of Society?
February 13, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Tucker's track record speaks for itself. Entering the 2008-09 season, he collected 1341 penalty minutes to 202 goals. And, I'm sure we can agree, most of those goals were simply long-time Tucker linemate Mats Sundin's gravy.
Ten Reasons Montreal Will Reach the 2008-09 Stanley Cup Final
February 11, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Yes, Montreal is in the midst of the worst stretch of the season. And this will be the turning point for one of the more dramatic team turnarounds in recent NHL history. Herewith, the ten biggest reasons why we can expect it:
10. Mathieu Dandenault - The most under-appreciated of a significant handful of [...]
Tired of Criticism?
February 6, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
The saying for both quarterbacks and goaltenders goes something like; Win and you get too much of the credit, lose and shoulder too much of the blame.
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