You can follow A.J. Bassett’s live blog live during every Montreal Canadiens game at Habs Game Blog. Final: Montreal 5, New York Rangers 4 FIRST PERIOD: – So we got it all wrong about the Rangers starting goaltender, it’s Antti Raanta between the pipes. – Alex Galchenyuk taking short (very short) shifts to start the […]

You can follow A.J. Bassett’s live blog live during every Montreal Canadiens game at Habs Game Blog. Detroit 1, Montreal 0 FIRST PERIOD – Wings scratches for today (now official), Tomas Jurco, Ryan Sprout and … sadly, Steve Ott. Always nice to face an opponent with not very good players in their lineup. Mike McCarron […]

The Habs played a boring and uneventful game in Detroit on Monday afternoon. Former (short-lived) Hab Thomas Vanek scored the game’s lone goal in the Canadiens second to last ever visit to Joe Louis Arena. We break down all the non-action for ya!  

Michel Therrien is going to the All-Star Game! This was, of course, met with some mockery online, but your Montreal Canadiens are playing well despite the dump truck’s worth of injuries they’ve had to deal with. So the question we asked our contributors this week is: Is Michel Therrien actually doing a good job this […]

Sean and Zach are back for their first pod of 2017 and they’ve got plenty of bits to get through and old controversies to rehash. If you miss Price v Halak, the Scott Gomez trade, re-sign Kovalev, and other greatest hits Habs arguments, then this episode is for you! Bits include Hey, Take It Outside; […]

You can follow A.J. Bassett’s live blog live during every Montreal Canadiens game at Habs Game Blog. Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 1 FIRST PERIOD: – Habs lineup pretty much the same as Monday, with Andrew Shaw on 3rd line next to Danault, Jacob De La Rose getting another start, and the Habs continuing with slightly modified […]

What’s wrong with Carey? What’s wrong with the Habs overall? It hasn’t been a great week so far for your Montreal Canadiens, who have now dropped 3 of 4 and look lifeless at the moment. On today’s morning after mini-pod, Zach wonders if the return of Galchenyuk and Shaw has caused the Canadiens to take […]

You can follow A.J. Bassett’s live blog live during every Montreal Canadiens game at Habs Game Blog. Montreal 3, New Jersey 1 FIRST PERIOD: – Pretty fast start for the Habs, bolstered by an aggressive setup in centre ice – Canadiens aiming to generate some Jersey giveaways with a tight forecheck there, so far it’s […]

The New Jersey Devils are not a very good hockey team and the Montreal Canadiens took advantage of that fact in a dominant performance on Friday night in the Garden State. Al Montoya had an easy night of work as Radulov and Galchenyuk each delivered a three-point performance in an easy win.  

L’histoire de James J. Braddock est bien connue: boxeur poids lourd du temps de la Grande Dépression, il effectuait un retour dans le ring à l’âge de 30 ans. Alors que presque tous le considéraient trop vieux et s’attendaient à ce qu’il se fasse démolir dès son premier combat, il allait devenir triple champion du […]

The Canadiens look to extend their winning streak to three games, as the red hot Minnesota Wild come to town. The Wild, winners of eight straight games, will play just their 18th game against the Canadiens all-time Thursday night. The Wild currently sit in second place in the Central Division with 42 points (19-8-4), while […]

When Kirk Muller was brought in by the Canadiens, the expectation was that the Habs’ power play would be among the league’s best, just like it had been under Muller and Guy Carbonneau. The Habs’ 20.1% conversion rate on the power play is good for 11th in the league. I’m not a math whiz, but […]

You could call it a moral victory – and Zach argues you wouldn’t be wrong if you do – but it still counts as a loss for the Habs and an 12th straight win (twelve?!?!) for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Assigning Jeff Petry a new nickname and wondering about Gallagher some more also on this […]

How is John Robert Tortorella still a thing? How does this man, who carries a disposition of a grease smudge, still a head coach in the National Hockey League? Well, I guess it’s because he wins. It’s a shame, really. Tortorella, in all his ego, pomposity and beleaguered willingness to berate and insult anyone and […]

It’s a Christmas Eve miracle! Sean and Zach come together for a very special holiday edition of the big show. So fill your stocking with all the bits you love and wait for Denim Santa Claus to deliver all the Wrangler Comfort Fit jeans you’ve been wishing for all year as you roast your chestnuts […]

The festive season has come and gone, the holiday roster freeze is lifted, and the hockey season is nearly half-over. In honor of Christmas and the New Year, here are 12 random thoughts The most surprising team in the NHL this season has been the Columbus Blue Jackets. They finished last season last in the […]

Your Montreal Canadiens lose to Carey Price’s most hated team in OT. Carey Price has been slumping by his own standards, Shea Weber scored but also cost the Habs some, and in the end it left Zach feeling not mad, but disappointed.

Happy post-Christmas everyone!! Did you survive the weekend spent passively liking your relatives and faking grateful appreciation for the crappy useless junk you found under the dying spruce tree which you haven’t watered in three week and is now a giant piece of kindling ready to create a blazing inferno of death in the middle […]

It’s not been a great season for hockey fans in south Florida. Their resident team, the Florida Panthers, have seen their hopes for a return to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 5 years go down the drain. The Panthers have endured injuries and internal strife, including the undignified firing of Gerry […]

Your Montreal Canadiens found a way to win in south Florida on Thursday night and put the breaks on growing losing skid.  Brendan Gallagher finally found the back of the net, Al Montoya finally got a win, and Philip Danault stepped-up and drove home the game winner as the Habs get out of the Sunshine […]