The anti-clinching scenario (UPDATED)
UPDATE (April 9): With Friday's Rangers win over the Flyers, the Canadiens' chances have dropped from over 99 per cent to 97.7 per cent (note to CHOM: Use that in a promo somewhere). Things have...
View ArticleYour 2010 Habs playlist
I don't know if it's because of the recession, because nobody expected the Canadiens to even make the playoffs - much less be able to compete against the Washington Capitals - or just because the...
View ArticleHail Mary, full of ice
Concordia's journalism program, which has been making a habit of posting its class TV productions onto YouTube, has produced this 45-minute documentary about Canadiens fandom - one of the few things we...
View ArticleThe experts have spoken
Capitals in four Joe O'Connor, National Post Dan Barnes, Edmonton Journal Dave Gross, Canwest News Service Dave Waddell, Windsor Star The Hockey News Pierre LeBrun, ESPN/CP/CBC Capitals in five Scott...
View ArticleIt’s gonna feel like 93 forever
Remember how I said the number of Habs songs was disappointing this season, particularly since the massive roster overhaul over the past year has made those old ones obsolete? Well Annakin Slayd, who...
View ArticleRunning over penguins is fun
A fellow editor noticed this ad that appears in Tuesday's Gazette. It's an ad for Ford that seems pretty generic until you think about it for a second. The text says "Passion to go the distance"....
View ArticleIn the words of the enemy
If you pick up the print version of The Gazette (or at least the sports section), you might have noticed that there's a lot of articles and columns from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and before that the...
View ArticleJe suis Canadien
I believe. Related Posts CJAD loses Habs broadcasts to Team 990 Koivu fan #1 Trades are killer on magazine news cycles Stand By Your Habs Back on the bandwagon, folks
View ArticleSpectaculaire arrêt de Halak
Speaking of clever Canadiens ads, CKAC came up with this simple yet effective one, which appears in today's Journal de Lockout. Infopresse has the credits. Let's hope it's proven right tonight. Related...
View ArticleWhat a night
7pm: I get off the metro train at Lucien-L'Allier station. The platform is flooded with red Habs jerseys. 7:07pm: I arrive at the parking lot outside the Bell Centre, which has been designated as a...
View ArticleSorry, Penguins can’t fly
Defeat: Victory: and ... Oh my God... Textual (and video) schadenfreude Sam Kasan, Pittsburgh Penguins Rob Rossi, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Kevin Gorman, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Josh Yohe, Pittsburgh...
View ArticleWe need a bigger bandwagon
You can tell your team is going somewhere when other people try to take credit for it. The Toronto Star is grasping at whatever straws they can find to attach their city to our team. And both Toronto...
View ArticleJe déteste les Flyers
Welcome to the party, Les Justiciers. (They brought us this last year.) You know, I was rooting for a Bruins win in the last round. Partly because coming back from 3-0 would mean stealing the...
View ArticleBack on the bandwagon, folks
Finally, an FTQ campaign I can support. Speaking of Canadiens pride, local musician Daniel Iorio has written another song about his beloved Habs. This one, keeping particularly current, name-drops...
View ArticleStand By Your Habs
Christopher Pennington, author of this pretty good (and bilingual!) Habs anthem from 2008 (available on iTunes), has teamed up withFelicity Hamer of United Steelworkers of Montreal to produce this...
View ArticleWe Photoshopped stop signs to say his name
From radio guy and music parodist Patrick Charles, a quickly created song about Jaroslav Halak is a freely-downloadable MP3: (They made a) Bad Trade, a parody of Daniel Powter's Bad Day. Related Posts...
View ArticleTrades are killer on magazine news cycles
L'actualité this week recently had a profile of Canadiens goaltender Jaroslav Halak teased big from its cover. On the cover: "Que réserve l'avenir du gardien du Canadien?" And in the piece itself: Son...
View ArticleKoivu fan #1
I've never been too crazy about people who carry giant signs into sporting events, particularly those whoring themselves out to the television rights-holders by trying to get the initials "TSN" or...
View ArticleCJAD loses Habs broadcasts to Team 990
It was the worst-kept secret in the radio industry: Bell-owned Team 990 has secured the English-language radio broadcast rights to Canadiens games for the next seven seasons. No financial details have...
View Article(Some awesome pun involving the words “Red” or “Fisher”)
Updated June 20 with link to Ken Dryden's story in the Globe and Mail. The news hit pretty suddenly on Friday morning. In fact, I heard about it on CFCF's noon newscast, having just woken up. Red...
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