Montreal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
February 7, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
I think Steve Begin is going to coach in the NHL one day.
Montreal Canadiens vs Carolina Hurricanes
December 23, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
I think I’m about 20-22 commercials away from cheering against Team Canada. As usual. Will they lay off already? And then the homer announcing is going to start. Can they at least try to be balanced? Just try?
Les Canadiens Today
December 18, 2009, by Doctor Rick
Canadiens Today - The respected Doctor Rick took time from his taxing intellectual pursuits and guested for us today via email. He is based in Montreal.
Montreal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
December 10, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Price’s positioning is prescient panther. Great saves as the puck moves on long lines, always the hypotenuse when Crosby passes. His pucks stretch vectors, make Tron victims of defenders.
Montreal Canadiens versus Ottawa Senators
December 8, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Bergeron goes down the right side to start the team. He moves in on pad and crease. Whack. Goes out. Andrei. Raises his hands like Superman. Smiles like a vacationer.
Montreal Canadiens versus Washington Capitals
November 28, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Highlights. Boston scores. And again. Krejci and Chara. A Czech cab-driver assured me last winter that David Krejci will be better than Jaromir Jagr when their careers are done. He was quite confident. He was about 49 years old.
Montreal Mystique Interviews Sylvain Archambault
November 18, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Montreal Mystique interviews Sylvain Archambault, director of Pour Toujours...Les Canadiens.
Bell Central Universe
October 29, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Canadiens blurb.
Rangers, Canadiens and Burgers
October 25, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
A svelte 78-game life and four matches that matter.
Of Turkies and Tedium
October 16, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
And to those who insist the Canadiens are, in mid-October, done like Thanksgiving dinner; basted before their time, let’s get a better grip of the wishbone.
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.
Edmonton Musings and In-Game Scribbles
October 11, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
We see that NAPA commercial where a female cop busts an elderly couple making out in some out of the way spot. Now why is it that cops feel comfortable knocking on steamy car windows with their flashlights? What purpose does this serve? What community-protection principle are they serving?
Reggie And The Logo
October 7, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
I’d rather see what the heroes I knew will do.
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.
Cammalleri Got Kovalev’s Assist
October 1, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Hell is an enemy arena.
Why Do You Hate the Leafs So Much?
September 18, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
In the meantime, hatred became a common elixir for me to deal with this new end-of-season elimination spectacle that saw the Canadiens go from common champion to chump commoner.
Exhibition Habs Beat Preseason Panthers
September 17, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Years ago, the NFL didn't like the sound of "exhibition season" and worked to change that language.
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.
Montreal Canadiens, A New Beginning
July 6, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It's been difficult to process all the changes over the past several days but in an email today to some Canadien cronies, I managed to articulate some of my incomplete thoughts on the goings-on.
Open Letter to Bob Gainey
July 5, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Dear Bob,
I don't have your email address or I might have sent this privately. But there is nothing to hide in what I'm saying.
Random Thoughts
June 26, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It's too easy to characterize a coach by his teams
Jacques Martin Hired as Next Montreal Head Coach
June 1, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
The Canadiens have named 56 year-old Jacques Martin as successor to Guy Carbonneau. It's a good selection for a variety of reasons and there are no concerns to voice.
Hockey. Had Enough?
May 30, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
In Montreal, the stories never die.
PenCap Musings and In-Game Scribbles (Game Seven)
May 13, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Theodore is like a small boy. Compact. Quick. Varlamov is watching maskless from the bench. Curious look on his face. Theodore is tested by Malkin twice at the side of the net, now. Stands true.
ChiVan Musings and In-Game Scribbles, Game Four
May 7, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Chicago's speed advantage is meaningless in this period. The Canucks interrupt, snipe, neutral-zone trap and just out-hustle the Hawks. Much of it seems to be the places the Hawks choose to dump or pass the puck. They're not seeing the spaces or seams in the zones. Or not going to them. They have to play smarter and not harder to a certain degree.
Outcomes
April 26, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Fault-finding, aside from its impact on technique, on practice or method, is a wasted energy.
Boston Series Game Four, In-Game Musings and Scribbles
April 22, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Theodore was ruined by this city. And Price is getting ruined. His confidence. How much pedestal and pillory can a person take?
Boston Series Game Three, Musings and In-Game Scribbles
April 20, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Hockey is the home and hallmark of the unskilled athlete. In no sport (except perhaps baseball) can the pugilist non-athlete survive for so long. Granted things have changed, are changing and certainly look very different from 1975. Hell, from 1995.
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.
The Logo
April 13, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
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 York [...]
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