A post-mortem
Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »The long slow moving train wreck of a season, finally, mercifully, came to a conclusion, with the Habs being swept by the Bruins in the first round of the playoffs. A season of optimism, extinguished by injuries, off ice controversy, ...
Montreal vs Boston: An analysis
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Boston and Montreal in a playoff series, it is almost a traditional rite of spring. For the thirty second time, these two rivals will go at one another in another playoff matchup. When assessing these two teams, it would appear ...
The Lecavalier mirage
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »It is the rumour, that will not go away. For well over two years now, there has been a persistent rumours that have circulated pertaining to the Canadiens strong interest in acquiring Vincent Lecavalier from Tampa Bay. Lecavalier's off season ...
Improvement, but still a flawed team
Sunday, March 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »It has been 9 games since Bob Gainey has taken over as coach of the Canadiens, and some noticeable adjustments and improvements have occured. Nonetheless a 3-3-3 record under the Bob Gainey coaching era also reflects the fact that the ...
Koivu: Approbation and discord
Saturday, March 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The incongruity of the Saku Koivu era as captain of the Canadiens, was perfectly illustrated, by two events which occured within a 24 hour period this past week. Thursday night, in a virtual must win game against Tampa, Koivu lead ...
Annus horribilis
Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »It was not supposed to be like this. The centennial year of the Canadiens, a year of celebrating the most storied franchise in hockey history. A year with so much promise, and expectations of a deep post season run, culminating ...
Carbonneau firing: the blame game
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »After a month of ignominious on ice performance (not to mention questionable off ice behaviour) in which the Canadiens, at one point compiled a 3 win 12 loss record, Bob Gainey took action, by firing Guy Carbonneau. The media immediately ...
Symmetry, at last
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »With the Canadiens hold on a playoff position becoming more fragile, Carbonneau reached in to his all familiar line up juggling, and finally came up with line combinations, and defense pairings that made sense. Although it took 66 games, the ...
A lack of confidence
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »The Canadiens 5 to 1 loss in Buffalo, once again evoked the common theme to this years under achieving team: a lack of confidence. After dominating the opening 15 minutes of the game, the Sabres opened the scoring on a ...
Stats don’t always lie
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In a small sample, stats can often be misleading and flawed process. Incorporating several pieces of data, can provide better insight into performance. One way to examine the performance of a player, is to examine his contribution/impact to the teams ...
