Canadiens poem.
Canadiens poem.
Lafleur.
Canadiens poem. Guy Lafleur. The greatest of them all.
Montreal Mystique Interviews Jean Béliveau (Dec 30, 2009). Béliveau may be the greatest captain the game has seen. He was offered the Governor Generalship of the country in the mid-nineties and remains an active Montreal Canadiens ambassador.
Pour Stéphane.
Canadiens poem.
Some psychologists like to use a technique called word-association to reveal latent or unconscious associations that may assist their clients in progressing with the therapeutic process.
A list on a whiteboard, a splash on film, an auditorium of international scouts. How many sports psychologists can a team hire?
Bill Parcells once said (and I’m paraphrasing) “They’re not rooting for us, they’re rooting for the jersey.” Parcells who is a Jersey guy and who began his head-coaching career in the NFL in the early eighties with the New York Giants, knows about fan loyalty and its opposite. No crowd is tougher than a New [
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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.
Line-tinkering goes on to varying degrees and with a depth that reflects a coach's philosophies and preferences. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It's an art as much as it is a science. And it's one of the few areas where an NHL coach can be creative and directly influence the outcome of a game.
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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).
However, if one is going to make the rash claims of "greatest ever" one must be prepared to talk about "ever"(
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