Now, let’s get one thing straight.
One victory over the Atlanta Thrashers does not a season make. But when it comes to the Montreal Canadiens, it’s a win that just might turn this season around.
Might.
If nothing else, Montreal’s 6-3 victory over the team with the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference of the NHL, snapped a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Alex Kovalev’
March 25, 2009
HABS STOP THE BLEEDING
March 19, 2009
HABS THROUGH CARBO’S EYES
Guy Carbonneau says he never saw it coming.
Just about everyone else, however, did.
Carbonneau spoke to the media yesterday for the first time since being fired Mar. 9, in the hours after a Canadiens’ 3-1 over the Dallas Stars in Dallas. Despite Montreal’s struggles this season, Carbonneau told a packed house at the Bell Centre yesterday [...]
February 28, 2009
HABS DON’T HAVE TO GO FAR FOR LATEST ACQUISITION
Some 24 hours after dispatching the popular Steve Begin to Dallas, Canadiens GM Bob Gainey found that depth centreman he was looking for.
And he didn’t have to go far, to get him.
After the Habs arrived in Philadephia for last night’s gme against the Flyers, they announced the acquisition of Glen Metropolit off waivers from the Flyers. Which meant that [...]
February 22, 2009
KOVALEV SHINES IN SPOTLIGHT
Did you expect anything less from Alex Kovalev?
With the spotlight on number 27, for all the wrong reasons, Kovalev returned to action yesterday, scored a goal and added two assists, to help power the Canadiens to a 5-3 win over a stubborn Ottawa Senators hockey club.
The chant “Kovy, Kovy, Kovy” rang through the Bell Centre [...]
February 21, 2009
HABS’ CENTENNIAL SEASON HANGS IN BALANCE
Some celebration.
The Montreal Canadiens’ Centennial Season is turning into a non-stop nightmare, both on and off the ice.
The action on the ice took a back seat, earlier this week, as a result of the unusual move by General Manager Bob Gainey to leave Alex Kovalev behind before the Canadiens moved on to Washington and Pittsburgh, to [...]
February 18, 2009
IS THIS THE END OF THE LINE FOR KOVALEV?
Has Alex Kovalev played his final game as a member of the Montreal Canadiens?
That’s the question Habs’ fans are asking themselves after general manager Bob Gainey sent jaws dropping today at the team’s practice facility when he informed reporters that he has told Kovalev to take a few days off in what the G.M. acknowledged [...]
February 16, 2009
WINNING STREAK SNAPPED AT ONE
When the Montreal Canadiens initially released their February practice schedule, they had ice time pencilled in at their facility in Brossard for noon today.
Maybe they should use it.
Then again, why bother. Nothing seems to be working for this Habs‘ team that fell 4-2 in Vancouver last night, in a game the featured more of the [...]
February 12, 2009
A CRY FOR HELP
Though out his team’s slide to oblivion, Montreal Canadiens head coach Guy Carbonneau has maintained that the answer to what ails his team lies with the 23 players in the dressing room.
Nobody is going to do it for them, said the coach, prior to leaving for this current six-game road trip.
That was before the Canadiens fell [...]
February 2, 2009
SAY IT AIN’T SO, ALEX
Say it ain’t so, Alex. Say it ain’t so.
We need to hear it from your lips, and we need you to mean it. We need to hear you tell us that your recent struggles have nothing to do with the fact that you had to trade in the Captain’s “C” you were wearing while Saku [...]
January 28, 2009
HABS PICK UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF
With the glow of a magnificent All-Star weekend long faded, the Montreal Canadiens kicked off the unofficial second-half start to the season with a 5-3 loss to the Lightning in Tampa, with the Habs showing the same tendencies they exhibited during back-to-back losses heading into the All-Star break:
Shoddy goaltending, sloppy play in front of their [...]
