CHIPCHURA GETS ANOTHER SHOT

Let me take you back to the off-season, at a time when it became clear that Mats Sundin didn’t want to have anything to do with the Montreal Canadiens, and before GM Bob Gainey went out acquired Plan B, in Robert Lang.
Once it became pretty clear that Sundin had very little interest in Montreal’s overtures, [...]

MASS CALL-UP FROM HAMILTON

Upper body, lower body.
Upper body, lower body.
Unfortunately, it’s been an all-too-familiar refrain for the Montreal Canadiens of late. And the latest member of the Habs to be singing that painful tune is Alex Tanguay who is out with an upper body injury after going down early in Tuesday’s win over Tampa: specifically, a dislocated left [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR? MAYBE NOT FOR TANGUAY

It’s not every day that your number one line is sitting in the press box.
But that could indeed be the case when the Canadiens return to action Friday in New Jersey after closing out the 2008 calendar year with three victories in four nights; win number three coming last night in Tampa thanks to a [...]

HABS END HOMESTAND WITH A THUD

It says here that you’re not going to win too many hockey games when you can only score one goal.
For the second straight game, the Montreal Canadiens could score but one goal. And for the second straight game, that goal scorer was Patrice Brisebois, who might not be Sheldon Souray or Mark Streit. [...]

HABS EMBARRASSED BY LEAFS

Embarrassing.
That is the only way to put last night’s 6-3 setback by the Canadiens at the hands of Mikhail Grabovski and the Toronto Maple Leafs. When this one was over, Habs‘ head coach Guy Carbonneau called it the most embarrassing game he’s ever been associated with.
And for good reason.
The Canadiens walked into the Air [...]

HALAK SHARP IN 3-1 WIN OVER PANTHERS

Jaroslav Halak claims there was a little luck involved in keeping the puck out of the net for most of the night against the Florida Panthers. Maybe. But luck will only take you so far when you are faced with 36 shots, and turn aside 35 of them.
Halak, in his second start of [...]

CHIPCHURA RETURNED TO HAMILTON

Let me take you back a few months ago, when it became clear that Montreal Canadiens’ General Manager Bob Gainey was having little success trying to convince Mats Sundin to join the Habs.
At the time, Gainey said the Canadiens had a Plan B in place at centre, in Kyle Chipchura, should the Habs fall short [...]