What happened?

Well in October  I posted my wild and crazy predictions for the hockey year. So far I missed the boat by a country mile. Here is my rationale why my predictions have been so off. 1) Sydney Crosby will get 150 - 200 points- eeek what a disaster. My prediction was based on what I saw at the world championships last year. Crosby put on an offensive exhibition as did most of his teammates. As well, he finally had the scoring winger that would inflate his point totals in Phil Kessel. Well, Crosby still has not shown up this year. The coach was fired, Kessel was moved to Malkin's line, and the Penguins are struggling. It is becoming apparent Crosby does not seem to do well with star wingers. They have tried Pallfy, Hossa, Neal, amd now Kessel and no one gels with Sid. Weird as it is it seems Crosby plays better with average wingers.  2) Phil Kessel will win the Maurice Richard trophy- Don't think so. I watched a recent game and I saw that Kessel was a step slower than he

Well it is October, wine season, tomato sauce season, and of course the start of a brand new NHL season. Here are my wild and crazy predictions for this year: 1) Sydney Crosby will get 150 - 200 points 2) Phil Kessel will win the Maurice Richard trophy  3) Conner Mcdavid will get 100 points 4) PK Subban will get 20 goals 5) Thomas Plekanec will be traded for a goal scorer at the deadline 6) Los Angeles Kings will win the Stanley Cup defeating the habs  7) Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall will score 50 goals 8) Toronto Maple Leafs finish dead last  9) Detroit Red Wings do not make the playoffs 10) Aaron Ekblad scores 20 goals Well anyways one can dream

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Well we had a very good regular season. It is important. The regular season is mostly played during the long winter months where a Habs victory could make us forget the crazy driving conditions and bulky clothing we have on. The playoffs are played in the spring and as we shed our winter fat we want to express our relief through the Habs we survived another hard winter. Unfortunately the Habs failed this year to inspire us. Last year we had a valid excuse. Yes we beat Tampa with their second string goalie but we had outplayed Tampa the whole series. We beat the first place Bruins fair and square. We lost to the rangers with our AHL goalie and we took them to 6 games. Yes we had a valid excuse and the Habs had shown great spirit during their playoff run. This year the Habs were unlucky to face the two teams they had had regular season problems with. We got lucky that what remained of the Senators was a depleted lot after their surge to make the playoffs. The Senators stretched u

Well being a Habs fan I am not sure I should write a blog about the disasterous leafs but what the hell I am safely located in Montreal. I lived in Toronto for four years during another sad era when even John Brophy coached the leafs. They were sad then and they are sad now. Not that I really care. The leafs in the very recent past had been on course to become another thuggish Bruins-like team with Brian Burke at the helm. They beat the hell out of Josh Gorges and Rene Bourque ( good things) and more or less ended George Parros's career. A few years back they took the Bruins to game 7 and were ahead 4-1 in game 7 before they crumbled. It has been downhill ever since. The leafs have never been the same since they traded away Frank Mahovlich. Superstars like Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Wendell Clark, Doug Gilmour, Borje Salming, Eddie Belfour and Mats Sundin have come and gone but they were just not good enough. The leafs are about to go through another rebuilding phase and will

We all need something to get us through these winter blues. This winter has been brutal as far as I am concerned cold every damn day since the beginning of the year. Hockey helps get us through this frigid torture. Even better is the hockey trade deadline. An artificially created deadline date set up by the NHL it has become its own social media carnival. Everybody has the inside knowledge about what's about to happen. I assume their sister is a secretary to an NHL general manager and she eavesdrops on every conversation, or your brother-in-law is a hockey agent. Whatever most hockey rumours never come through.  So my blog here is not to initiate rumours but to outline what the Habs need to get them to the promised land. What we have here with the Habs is a first place team that could have been way ahead if they put any effort defeating cellar dwellers.  The Habs have the most confident goalie in the NHL in Carey Price. The same Carey Price that lost his nerve a few yea