Archive for September, 2009

Letter to Patrice Brisebois

Tomorrow the 2009-2010 season begins and I feel as though I’m shifting gears just a little bit with this as lot’s of stuff is already brewing before the season has begun. But this was something that I wanted to write. I wanted to write this as a letter from a longtime Habs fan to a longtime Habs player.

Here’s my letter to you Mr Brisebois:
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Season just about on and some last cuts made

As I write this there is 2 more sleeps before the new 2009-2010 season opens with the Montreal Canadiens facing the Toronto Maple Leafs. I’ve been waiting for this long enough to qualify me as a slightly obsessed fan.

Jacques Martin has made some more cuts and now we have the team or roster together that will start the year.

The cuts that were made today were Ben Maxwell, Tom Pyatt, Yannick Weber, Mathieu Carle and Curtis Sanford.
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Player feature : Max Pacioretty – Future File

Great little feature on Sportsnet on Max Pacioretty.

There’s not really much to the video as it’s only about 50 seconds long… but it basically highlights that he is a top prospect and is a young, big strong forward that could have a big role on the club in coming years.

Enjoy!

Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres game highlights

Last nights game against the Sabres was the only pre-season game I didn’t manage to see. Usually when I’ve got other things to do I’ve still got a curiosity on the score…. and the desire to watch the game of coure.

So last night I did a bit of peeking on Twitter to get some updates in between sets. Maybe I should explain a bit… I wasn’t playing tennis… I was in fact sitting in with a local band for a couple of nights and was playing some drums.

Anyways, very happy to hear the Habs won and here are the game highlights from Sportsnet.

Bob McKenzie’s 6 cities in 6 days : The Montreal Canadiens

Bob McKenzie of TSN has a series called “6 cities in 6 days” where he covers all the Canadian NHL teams, talks about their changes and where he sees the team going.

McKenzie believes “the Price had better be right” in Montreal this year. Bob also mentions the many changes in the team’s roster this year and that it’s anyone’s guess just how much success they’ll have… an interesting remark however is that he references the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley cup run, saying the team could resemble that team in the sense that the team could be better then the sum of it’s parts. (At least, that’s how I remember him saying it!)

If you haven’t see his analysis of the Canadiens, you can view it here.

Did you miss the Penguins vs Canadiens pre-season game?

I found out that TSN has the Penguins vs Canadiens pre-season game in their video library in the NHL “Games On-Demand” section.

So I thought I would post the links here in case anyone wanted to see the game but missed it.

Check it out here!
http://watch.tsn.ca/nhl-games-on-demand/pre-season-penguins-vs-canadiens/

Canadiens vs Penguins – Game highlights and comments

Montreal Canadiens won their pre-season matchup against the Penguins last night at the Bell center.

The Habs were at times a bit flat (I thought) although I’m sure they weren’t hustling…. it just seemed it wasn’t clicking all the time through the first 2 periods.
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Canadiens vs Bruins – Game highlights and comments

Though the Canadiens lost last nights game against the Boston Bruins there were many positives in the game.

Some players were certainly making the best of their pre-season games….

A couple of these guys are both similar and quite different.
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Canadiens vs Senators – Terrible pre-season game

Last night’s game certainly wasn’t a great performance by the Montreal Canadiens. At first, the pace of the game seemed to indicate that we were gonna be in for an entertaining game…. both Habs fans and Sens fans alike. The pace was fairly quick and there was some jump on both sides.

But it soon started to turn for the worst for the Habs.
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A perspective on team captaincy

Found this great video by the Montreal Gazette on team Captaincy. They ask some questions to different people in attendance what they think.

Then there’s a nice interview with Mike Cammalleri.

Enjoy!

Edited
Previously had embedded video but had a problem with it’s streaming. So please click here to view the video from the Gazette’s website.