Seasons Greetings: A Time for Reflection on the First Half of the Season

Seasons Greetings, Habs Addicts! I hope everyone had wonderful holidays as we gear up for the New Year.   

Currently the Habs have a 23-14-3 record, good for 4^th in the Eastern conference. Not too shabby at all. Scoring has been down this year, as the offense has been held to 3 goals or less in 28 of 40 games played this year and has only potted 5+ goals in a game twice this season, naturally both wins.  Carey Price and Peter Budaj have been stellar in goal and the overall defensive effort has...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Hurricanes (Game #41)

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Panthers (Game #40)

 

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Lightning (Game #39)

 
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Montreal Canadiens Three Stars of the Week - Dec 16 to 22, 2013

 

The Canadiens were able to claim 4 out of a possible 6 points last week with wins over the Coyotes and Predators sandwiching a disappoint 5-1 loss to the Blues in St Louis. They jumped out to an early 3-0 lead over the Preds Saturday night in Nashville but still needed overtime heroics to claim a 4-3 win and send them to...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Predators (Game #38)

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens vs Blues (Game #37)

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Habs/Coyotes Post-Game December 17th 2013

The Habs earned a victory against a very strong, and defense focused, Phoenix Coyotes squad by a score of 3 to 1. The victory was important given how they flat they came out against the Florida Panthers in front of the home crowd Sunday evening in their losing outing.

Max Pacioretty was ringing the doorbell often as he hit the post three times before finally getting a bounce off the skate of Michael Stone to beat Mike Smith. He also added an empty netter to seal the game and put away the sword as he has done quite often this season.

The Habs came out of the gate flying, Pacioretty was sent in on a breakaway thirty seconds into the game and a series of other opportunities tested...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens vs Coyotes (Game #36)

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Montreal Canadiens Three Stars of the Week - Dec 9 to 15, 2013

After their incredible 9-0-1 run, the Canadiens crashed back to earth last week. The Habs managed just one win in four games. Even more troubling, the Habs scored just 3 goals in their games and Montreal's only win was an overtime shutout effort by Carey Price.

First Star: Carey Price

The past week went...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens vs Panthers (Game #35)

 
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The Canadiens (20-11-3) are home to host...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Islanders (Game #34)

 
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Habs/Flyers Post Game December 12th 2013

The Habs were looking to bounce back after a poor outing against the Kings but home ice advantage seemed to favor the Flyers in their 2-1 victory against Montreal, who have now dropped 2 straight in regulation.

The game could have gotten out of reach in the second period after Alexei Emelin was ejected from the game for a elbow to the head on Flyers forward Steve Downie. This resulted in a five minute major against the Habs who allowed nothing to get by Price. Given the recent amount of discipline being handed down by Brendan Shanahan it can be expected that Emelin will be missing a couple of games after tonight.

The Flyers are also coming off of a terrible loss, 7-2 to...

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Pregame Preview: Canadiens at Flyers (Game #33)

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The NHL Needs To Stop The Violence, Or Expect The Inevitable

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Habs/Wild Post Game November 19th 2013

Max Pacioretty spoke out before the game and responded by taking the team on his back and scoring a hat trick in the second period to lead the Canadiens to a 6-2 winning effort against the Wild.

The Wild came in as one of the hottest teams in the NHL. 8-1-1 in their last ten, and the winners of 4 straight.  They are living up to the expectations the fans in Minnesota had hoped would come a year ago. Zach Parise and Ryan Sutter are the stand-outs on the roster but would not be in the position they're in without an excellent season from their goaltender Josh Harding who has 12 wins in 17 games. While the Wild have been successful on home ice, they've had trouble on the road only...

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At The Quarter Mile: Analysis After 20 Games

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Habs/Rangers Post Game Saturday Nov. 17th

The Habs were shut-out by the Rangers 1-0 who visited the Bell Center Saturday night.

The Canadiens who are...

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