Steve and Jaro
June 7, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Canadiens blurb. Steve Penney. Jaroslav Halak.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Gm 5)
May 24, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It’s Norton-Holmes, mongoose and cobra, eight rough flyers with crow feathers chasing. And one horseshoe spinning on a matte red lake.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Gm 4)
May 22, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Laperriere points to his head as he returns to the Flyer bench. He is gesturing at Montreal. Is he asking for a crosscheck to the helmet? Is he saying that his transmitter is malfunctioning? Is he requesting a brain siphon?
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Gm 3)
May 20, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
CBC spends a lot of time and energy showing Montreal in a questionable light. They should be ashamed. NBC doesn’t go after the San Francisco 49ers. FOX doesn’t go after the LA Lakers. ABC doesn’t attack the Boston Red Sox.
Expressly Canadian (Gm 2)
May 19, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Thoughts while watching the game again in compacted format. Just the first period this time.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Gm 2)
May 18, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
But this is in some ways reminiscent of the regular season. Big win against this ogre, big win against that giant. And then tied to a tree by a crow.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers (Gm 1)
May 16, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Leighton may as well be wearing a suit. Goaltender aplomb. In stately orange. And wild black.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 6) (Delayed Edition)
May 13, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Part-owner Mario Lemieux and his wife Nathalie are shown standing and still. Serious, serious. Mannequin expressions. Up in one of the team boxes. He is in a dress shirt only. Cowboy sky blue. He could still play.
Expressly Canadian (Gm 7)
May 13, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Thoughts while watching the game again in compacted format. Just the first two periods this time.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (GM 7)
May 12, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
My chemicals settle. Wiring is a fuzzle. Commercials are in slow mo.
Laptop Failure (MTL V PITT GM 6)
May 10, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Sorry, but both laptops have failed at Montreal Mystique. There may not be a Musings and In-Game Scribbles tonight.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 5)
May 8, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Crosby, more and more, is becoming a skinny, mild-mannered Eric Lindros. He exudes the air of someone who finally believes he is beautiful even though he is not. Each of his shifts is accompanied by that whiff of self-importance that the near-great can effect so well. His charming humility is long gone.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 4)
May 6, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It’s messy. Missed sticks, waggling puck and ice lanes sheared without care.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 3)
May 4, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Each commercial sequence thus far has featured at least one car ad. Amazing. I had never counted to this point. Advertising is a form of wave hypnosis for the dominant ideology and is vaguely underestimated.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 2)
May 3, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
And the impression left by Markov's absence is dented geography, an almost undetectable extinction.
Markov, at twenty-five minutes plus per game is the best play-making quarterback on the team.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (Gm 1)
April 30, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Georges Laraque partners with an avant-garde grass-roots raw foods restaurant, Disney Crosby does Tim Horton’s commercials.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Seven)
April 28, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It’s an Adams feeling. But more accurately, it’s a Bomber 88 sensation. There’s just nowhere to put the football. Down the middle is gone. Flat passes are all Washington has. And the hope that Montreal will turn the puck over deep. But the Canadiens are rarely passing across the ice. The image and mentorship of Martin, his imprint and will are the emphasis to which each Canadien leans.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Six)
April 26, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Halak’s eyes are slits, his face a robot’s. He is correct (use French accent).
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Five)
April 23, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
How much emotional will has eroded or fallen off in huge, melting ice chunks?
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Four)
April 21, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Crowd is like a big bag of blue rice. A thousand grains make indigo aural shapes and ridges of seashore ice sound.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Three)
April 19, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
I feel no hope. The rubber rods and electric veins are unthrobbing, evaporating fast.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game Two)
April 17, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Capitals manage another slot pass but the Canadiens are sailors on a storm-shaken boat and they pail and pull, sway and stymie. Penalty ends.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Washington Capitals (Game One)
April 15, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Lavoie translates the interview to French. And I wonder if the day will come when a hand could reach out from the screen and take an object from my living room. Say, a chocolate bar.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs
April 10, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
We get a look at a fight from tonight’s Atlanta game. The Thrasher’s unsavoury Evander Kane shows his colours as he whams his opponent once to take him down and then again to hit his head off the ice. What did you learn in Ontario minor hockey today, son? Oh, the usual.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Carolina Hurricanes
April 8, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Renaud Lavoie interviews Marc-Andre Bergeron. Bergeron is auditioning for a television career. He’s like Robertson Davies. Getting paid by the word. But unlike Davies, Bergeron makes a boring answer more unbearable by extending it.
Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Islanders
April 6, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. Based on the RDS telecast, Musings take about 20 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with morning coffee. Or late-night chocolate.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Buffalo Sabres
April 3, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
The ice is lit in an oval of wet white and American lights; le bleu, le blanc et le rouge.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers
April 2, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Flyers in amber. There’s only so much skating they can do.
Montreal Canadiens vs. Carolina Hurricanes
March 31, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
One of the benefits of not watching English-announced Canadian hockey telecasts is that, as viewers, we are more free to decide for ourselves who the heroes and villains are; who the skilled and unskilled are; the English-Canadian networks are far too influenced by the star-makers culture that has slowly poisoned Canadian sports television.
Montreal Canadiens vs. New Jersey Devils
March 27, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Parise is skates and shark over the blue line. And quickly. His efforts are cornered and squared as the Montreal defenders take up the appropriate angles.
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