The Diachronic Barber Pole Observations of a Recovering Hockey Exile

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. Boston Bruins

January 12, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

It's like the moon-landing.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

December 19, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Montreal, Boston. The embers are always there.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

November 21, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

But now we’re going to hear all about Wayne Crosby all week. All month. All year. But hopefully not all century.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

October 29, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Love is typing on a poor keyboard.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

October 27, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Canadiens flit fleet in the slot. Thomas flubbles and weaves, rolling and low and then back up again. Plekanec’ shot from the high slot just misses the crossbar.

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.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 21, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Bruins need something. And they get it from a man who has no post-trauma. Peverley. On his own. Scrambling, stickhandling. Horizontal in the neutral and now turning and in. The high shot. And it wasn’t easy. Price has this one.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 18, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Thomas looks more human than Gilbert, Chara is not the man of hubris that Esposito was. It’s a likeable team, stanchion and all. Chara has a very short, very bright fuse. It stays unlit for long periods and he’s a great player during those times.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 16, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

I wonder if Colin Campbell is issuing Blackberry directives to Paul Devorski.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

April 14, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

There’s a bear in the crowd. He nods knowingly, a smaller, more vicious version of the A and W Root Bear. His incisors are showing as he flaunts a yellow Bruins mini-towel.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

March 24, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Doctor Recchi.

Pacioretty and the Attack on Logic

March 11, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

In order to understand what a fallacy is, one must understand what an argument is.

Pacioretty (Email Exerpt)

March 9, 2011, by Homme de Sept-Îles

Pacioretty hit discussion.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

February 9, 2011, by Homme De Sept-Iles

History doesn’t dictate the future.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

January 8, 2011, by Homme De Sept-Iles

Andrei is of no use. Floating. Unused clothes on a hanger. It’s a windy closet.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

December 17, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles

Can we get a few more goals? What.

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

November 11, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles

Julien stands, hands in pocket and nods in the affirmative. How many suits does an NHL coach own? Are they subsidized by the NHL? By the individual teams?

Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

March 13, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles

I agree. Keep the shootout. Unskilled players oppose the shootout. Or traditionalists. What is more reflective of hockey than skills? In Quebec, growing up, there was nothing else to consider.

Montreal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins

March 2, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles

Canadiens win the faceoff on the glistening ice. Boston’s logo at centre ice, as I’ve said often, is compelling and tonight it is nearly majestic. I’m glad to return to a traditional rivalry with the usual suspects on a Tuesday night when only those who care about and understand the teams involved are watching. More or less.

Ovechkin – Put Him On the Poster

January 25, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles

The brash bonne bad boy from Bodlivasta* .... black shades, big stick, brave brew and balls. Gentil-Hommes et Ladies, it's Alex Ovechkin. Tomorrow's should-be poster boy.