The Diachronic Barber Pole Observations of a Recovering Hockey Exile

Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators

March 23, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Guess who gets first star.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Buffalo Sabres

March 21, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

The Canadiens’ 82-game exhibition season has been a flat balloon and thousands of disappointed kids.

Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Islanders

March 17, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Now I know why they call them TV dinners.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators

March 16, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Qui d'autre, asks Houde.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators

March 14, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

At his best, Markov is unobtrusive, quick and an invisible torque-touch passer.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Buffalo Sabres

March 12, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Aebischer is another ex-Avalanche tender that didn't work out for us. Budaj has not been as bad as Aebischer. But that's setting the bar low. That's trapping the monkey high. That's biting the tomato too many times.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Vancouver Canucks

March 11, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Andrei Markov is back.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Edmonton Oilers

March 9, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Hockey leads are fragile as frosted web work.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Calgary Flames

March 7, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

The CBC can't fire me, either.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs

March 3, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

How did these freeple get tickets?

Montreal Canadiens vs. Minnesota Wild

March 1, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

And the hay bell Cs that centre our vision. The Big Red Cs.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

February 28, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Price slides away on pads, helpless. The pass to Hall was crease-lip perfection. The jam and rot-shot riddled my pocked heart. Ropes aren't nylon on this wharf. They're itchy and blue. A kind of twisted, wet wool.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Florida Panthers

February 26, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

So many things to take offence over in today's NHL, eh?

Montreal Canadiens vs. Dallas Stars

February 21, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Mike Ribeiro and rumours. This time the former Hab is subject of trade discussion. The trade deadline is looming and Ribeiro, the smooth hands and smirk, has counted seven points in his past seven. The visiting Dallas Star remains icy mellow magic; a centre with vision, moves and finish. He’s a play-maker first, a rock star second and a skater third. He’s not known for speed but for veer.

Montreal Canadiens vs. New Jersey Devils

February 19, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Homage a Gary Carter.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

February 16, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Musings and In-Game Scribbles My English is as good as yours, I just write these in a stream-of-consciousness mode that I insist excuses me from small things like rules of grammar or general etiquette. Let’s call it conversational English, hopped up on beans. You know what kind of beans (no, Carl Mellesmoen, not the magic [...]

Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs

February 12, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Ok, let's drop the puck.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators

January 15, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

So what. So what. So what. It all matters. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Pittsburgh Penguins

November 27, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Don’t underestimate the quickness of an ox.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Colorado Avalanche

October 15, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Where’s the bang-bang?

Montreal Canadiens vs. Winnipeg Jets

October 10, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Another road game and another too-Canadian, too-Timmy, too-nauseating pre-game sermon

Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins

June 16, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

The greatest decade is the seventies.

Boston Bruins vs. Vancouver Canucks

June 14, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Put that in your book!

Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins

June 10, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

It’s under everything. Grass stains can be cleaned. Scoreboards are a different story.

Boston Bruins vs. Vancouver Canucks

June 8, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

I wish I could realign the teams; move the knuckleheads to one team and the likeables to the other.

Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins

June 4, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Vancouver just glues and closes, slows and jabs. It’s suffocating.

Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins

June 1, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

How good is Roberto Luongo? How bad is he? Does a final make or break a man?

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 27, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Boston fans are a loyal and suitless lot. This isn’t the ACC. Real fans dwell in the lower bowl in this rink. They watch with concern, concentration and insight.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 26, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Boston doesn’t care a whit about this team, its history, its fans.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 23, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

The silence(s) of overtimes past whisper a diorama of evaporating emotional fuels and smoking, destroyed flights of dreams. The goalie looks skyward, players stay collapsed on the ice. And a puck watches as enemies rejoice.

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