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 […]

The 2016-17 NHL season is just around the corner and, as everyone knows, you can’t start a season without making wild predictions about what will happen. So let’s get to it! These are my big predictions for the 2016-2017 NHL campaign. Every Canadian team will make the playoffs! Not since the 1985-86 season has every […]

Since Montreal missed the postseason for the first time since the 2011-2012 season, there have been several big changes. Despite the changes, Montreal is no better than they were a few months ago when they were limping to the end of the regular season. Here are 10 reasons why Montreal is no better than they […]

For the first time since the 1969-70 season, no Canadian teams will make the playoffs. This also means that we will hit year 23 between Cup wins by a Canadian teams. Here’s how it happened. Montreal Canadiens The Montreal Canadiens got off to their best start in franchise history, winning their first nine games of […]

Canadiens starter Carey Price has been out since November 25th with what is being called a lower-body injury. Price has been skating for the past month without his goalie equipment. Last week some discouraging video was shown by TSN showing Price struggling to skate laps. Later, he was seen limping noticeably. So here’s why Carey […]

Top 25 All-Time Habs Goalies The goalie is arguably the most important position in hockey. A team can be a scoring juggernaut, but if their goalie can’t stop the puck they won’t win many games. Here are my choices for the top 25 all-time Habs goalies. 1.Georges Vezina – Chicoutimi, Quebec When you have a […]

British Columbia is arguably the most beautiful province in Canada. It is the only province where you can golf and go skiing on the same day, although with climate change this may soon be impossible. British Columbia has also produced some pretty good hockey players. Eighteen BC born players have donned a Montreal Canadiens uniform in […]

NHL Expansion On Monday July 7th, the window for expansion applications closed and two teams formally applied: Quebec City and Las Vegas. The last time the NHL expanded was in 2000 when they added Minnesota and Columbus to bring the number of teams to the current total of 30. It should be noted that the […]

NHL Free Agency Frenzy July 1st is an important day for the NHL. It marks the start of free agency where any team can sign any player. Those that are 27 or older or with 7 years of NHL experience are considered unrestricted and can be signed by any team with no compensation to the team […]