The morning after the night before: the Carey bomb goes off in Winnipeg

It was time for Carey Price to do what GM Marc Bergevin suggested in a franglais phrase to make a Tongue Trooper weep:          “Steppez-up!”          If any player on the Canadiens roster needed to steppez in Winnipeg Thursday night, it was Price.          Instead, all he managed to do was to steppez on a …

The War Room Warriors strike again as the Habs lose …

Carey Price, as Mike Farber observed, made the big saves Tuesday night against Ottawa – but couldn’t make the little ones.             And that wasn't the half of it. Against an Ottawa team that is something less than the 1980s Oilers, Claude Julien coached not to lose, as he has far too often this season. …

Claude Julien on thin ice – and the weather is getting warmer

In February of 2004, I made my first Canadiens trip in a couple of years. A smashed hip and a couple of surgeries had kept me off the road and a pair of games in Florida, followed by a stint at spring training seemed like the perfect way to get back in the swing.          …

The Price isn’t quite right…

Those inane Google questions that pop up whenever you try to search something are, if nothing else, sometimes a key to what people are thinking.             When I checked Carey Price’s stats Friday, I found two beauties: Is Carey Price the greatest goalie in the history of hockey?Is Carey Price still good?             Mind you, …

Here ya go, Red – the players

My great and good friend, the late, much-missed Red Fisher, was a skeptic. He did not deal in rumours, he did not put up with fools and he was rarely if ever misled about the quality of a hockey team.         Red was the most influential journalist in the history of the game for many …