When your team starts 13-2-1, it might be a bit crazy to criticize the head coach, but here we are. It’s not that there is really anything bad to say about the style of play that the Canadiens are playing, but it has just come to my attention that there seems to be a certain […]

This entire article is going to be based off of hypotheticals and projections, but sometimes those are the most fun things to read and write. What if? These are the questions we spend our late sleepless nights thinking about. What if this happened? What if this didn’t happen? How would things change and what would […]

Every year before the season starts and you look at a teams roster, you can point out some names that need to make their mark and find their potential within an organization. Three players that are in this situation include newly acquired winger Zack Kassian, center Lars Eller and defenseman Nathan Beaulieu. We will take […]

Picture this. David Desharnais, Alex Galchenyuk, Michel Therrien and a referee are all placed in a locked steel cage, WWE style. Surprise, surprise, Therrien and Desharnais team up to attempt to weaken down Galchenyuk. Since this is a hockey style steel cage match, there are different rules than a regular one. Somehow, Therrien ended up […]

We’re currently going through the dog days of summer, so I thought it would be fun to try and get into the minds of the Team Canada brass and try to predict what Team Canada’s U20 roster will look like in Helsinki, Finland. I will break down each position and talk about who should be […]

Ranking System I thought it would be a fun exercise to take a look at each teams most important players going forward for their franchise, and to rank the cores of NHL teams from 1 to 30. I took a goalie from each team, and four players, whether it be current players or prospects that […]

Within an organization, the development of young players almost always plays a big role in how successful an organization is. We can discuss that forwards and defenseman have completely different development curves and that in order to ensure growth,  patience is very vital to the process and that no two situations are the same. Every […]

One of the most important decisions that a management team has to make occurs when the teams cup window opens and they have to decide when to put all their marbles in one basket and go for it. A lot of people don’t realize how important salary cap management is when building a Stanley Cup […]

As we stand right now, the Canadiens have decided against dipping into their pockets and trying to upgrade their top 9 forwards. Whether this is indeed the right decision, time will tell. The Canadiens still need to sign restricted free agent Alex Galchenyuk to a contract, which will likely be in the 2.75 to 3.5 […]