What happened?

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 fe...

Well I actually thought Gauthier had begun to do well with his trades. Here we were giving up on old long in the tooth Hal Gill for a second round pick and someone with a decent pedigree like Blake Geoffrion. Gill had shown not much of anything this year and frankly other then finding himself on a Stanley Cup team with the Penguins had really been a big bust in the NHL his whole career. Well one out of two trades ain't bad if your a gambling man. AK46 has played most of the year in a fog. He has shown only glimpses of his innate hockey skills and offensive capablilities. He has averaged over 20 goals a year in his career. He uses the body more frequently then most Hab forwards. He seemed to show some pride as well when he demanded more ice time to show what he can do. He still has a poor command of english and this may create some communication problems with teammates and coaches  However, with his impending UFA status it was clear that unless he signed soon, the H...