What happened?

Well I got a few. Some are probably  more important than others. Most are ulcer-inducing. To begin with all the people jumping on planes  and crowding airports during the past year. It was like people had never ever been on a plane before. Was it really that stifling to be cautious about the pandemic. When Martin Luther King Jr proclaimed free at last I doubt he meant a vacation in Europe or the Caribbean. Next pandemic related issue is all the maskless people sneezing and coughing in public and zero regard for your fellow human. Must you really go out to sit in a coffeehouse when you are not feeling well and clearly have flulike or covidlike symptons. So many examples I encountered this year of the callousness of a good percentage of the population. There was the time the nurse was coughing non-stop as we sat in a small cubicle waiting for her to give me my flu shot. Then there was the masked lady at the hotel reception desk who the instant she was about to cough lowered the mask. Jes

Yessssss, Habs won the draft lottery. All habs fans finally could scream we’re number one about something at the end of a disastrous season. It is not the first time the habs have had the first overall pick. Sadly the Flower’s passing reminded us of the shrewd Sam Pollock getting a generational superstar right after winning a stanley cup. Even then, choosing the Flower over Marcel Dionne was not a certainty and what may have clinched it for Lafleur was the fact his junior team defeated Dionne’s junior team in the Memorial Cup playoffs. In fact, even this was without controversy as Dionne’s junior team, trailing 3-2 in wins, forfeited the series because the Quebec city fans were too rowdy and Dionne’s team refused to play there.  Sam Pollock was behind another first overall pick when in 1976 he swapped the habs first pick for the Colorado first pick in 1980. He sweetened the deal with the Rockies  by adding a couple of prospects. Rockies finished dead last in 1980 and the habs, after ju

Well when Ovechkin scored his 600th much like his 500th, there has been a vocal minority that say Ovechkin is the greatest goal scorer of all time. This conclusion is based upon the fact the decade Ovechkin plays in is the so-called dead puck era where 50 goals and 100 points are almost impossible mountains to climb for a player in a season. Many also say that Ovechkin is the GOAT due to the larger physique of athletes both in nets and on defence as well as the speed of the game. However, there are many other things to analyze when deciding who is the greatest of all time. Here is my analysis. First off, I think it is important to review a fundamental stat ‘goals per game’. Over his career, Mike Bossy has the best goals per game stats at a 76% clip scoring 573 goals in 752 games. Mario Lemieux comes in second if you consider his whole career. I would argue you should ignore the games after his comeback. After taking three years off Lemieux was obviously not the player he was before

Many people consider the Montreal Canadiens dynasty of the 1970’s to be the greatest hockey team ever. The stats sort of agree. The curious thing about the team is that they lost several players that could have probably made the dynasty even more omnipotent and maybe led to 8-9 cups in the decade rather than the 6 won. Here are a few players that left the team. Marc Tardif played on one of the greatest junior teams of all time. The junior Canadians were sensational in the late sixties led by future NHLers Rejean Houle , Gilbert Perreault, Richard Martin, Jocelyn Guevremont, and Andre Dupont among others. Tardif was considered to be a future superstar when he joined the habs with his buddy Reggie Houle. Tardif won the cup with the habs in 1971 but was used sparingly on the talent laden club. In 1973, he won again with the habs and he scored 6 goals and 12 points in 14  playoff games outscoring Guy Lafleur who only had 8 points. The following year Tardif  joined the WHA.  In the WHA his