What happened?

My fellow habs hockey fans enough is enough. We need  to make the habs great again. We have had one lame general manager and coach after another for the habs. I have decided to throw my hat in the ring when the inevitable axe falls on Bergy and Therrien. Habs fans are demanding change. I am an outsider and not part of the establishment. The old establishment makes promises that they never keep when in office. The so-called hockey pundits know nothing about hockey with their loser Corsi stats and lack of vision. What do I offer you may ask? Well let me start with the obvious: 1) Our trade deals under Bergy have been a catastrophe. We have been getting fleeced by other GM's. What do we have to show for these trade deals. Bergy has gotten us a bunch of fourth liners like Mitchell, Flynn, DSP, Danault, Matteau, and don't remind me of John Scott and Mike Brown. His contract signings of Markov, Plekanec, Eller, Emelin, and Petry are an unmitigated disaster. No other...

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 h...

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 ...