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The Pittsburgh Penguins are setting a good example on how, in the wake of tragedy, actions speak louder than words. Much respect. “The team announced on Sunday that it would hold a blood drive ...

https://www.segacs.com/2018/penguins-support-pittsburgh.html

It’s the end of an era: After sixteen years and nearly 1000 regular-season games with the Habs, Andrei Markov won’t be back next season. He’s heading back to Russia to play for the KHL, it ...

https://www.segacs.com/2017/markov-leaves-habs-heads-to-khl.html

I guess Team Canada won’t be defending its gold medal in Pyeongchang. The NHL won’t participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. For the first time since 1994, NHL players will not attend the Win...

https://www.segacs.com/2017/nhl-wont-go-to-pyeongchang-olympics.html

Well, Gary Bettman has done it again: He just announced that Quebec City’s NHL expansion bid has been denied, but Las Vegas’s has been approved: Bettman said the NHL board of governors unanim...

https://www.segacs.com/2016/nhl-in-vegas.html

So much for the Olympic values of peace, understanding and bringing people together: A Syrian boxer has quit the World Boxing Championship rather than be forced to compete against his Israeli opp...

https://www.segacs.com/2016/syrian-boxer-quits-israeli.html

Don’t look now, but the Habs are off to a hot start, going 5-0 for the first time in franchise history: “Despite powerhouse Canadiens teams that won a record 24 Stanley Cups in their 106-year...

https://www.segacs.com/2015/habs-start-season-a-record-breaking-5-0-0.html

The lockout has dragged 113 days and I wasn’t holding out much hope for any kind of season, shortened or otherwise. But this morning, I woke up to fresh snow outside and a shiny new agreement-i...

https://www.segacs.com/2013/hockeys-back-baby-3.html

There’s nothing more depressing than a pub in late October with no hockey on the big screen. Players, owners, settle this thing already. We need our hockey back. The post I miss hockey first...

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How has this winter been lousy? Let us count the ways… Hockey discontentment The Habs just wrapped up their worst season in recent history. After finishing dead last in the East and the third w...

https://www.segacs.com/2012/winter-of-discontent.html

Scott Gomez will make $7.5 million dollars this year. Gomez is the Habs’ highest-paid player. He had 7 goals and 38 points last season. He hasn’t scored a goal in a game that counts since Feb...

https://www.segacs.com/2011/the-seven-million-dollar-man.html

You know it’s gonna be a rough season for the Habs when it kicks off with a 2-0 shutout loss to the dreaded Laffs. Last night’s game was just wince-worthy. Here’s hoping we step it up again...

https://www.segacs.com/2011/ouch-habs-ouch.html

Hockey’s coming back to the ‘Peg: The True North Sports and Entertainment group announced on Tuesday that they have completed a deal to purchase the Atlanta Thrashers and move them to Winnipe...

https://www.segacs.com/2011/still-canadas-game.html

By now, everyone in Montreal, Beantown and everywhere in between knows about the ugly hit by Zdeno Chara that landed Max Pacioretty in the hospital with a possible career-ending fractured vertebr...

https://www.segacs.com/2011/on-chara-gate.html

The rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, who have been underground for 69 days, is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. As of right now, two of the miners have been rescued so ...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/briefly.html

Five thousand people turned up today for Halak’s farewell autograph session at Fairview. That’s about ten times the crowd that the organizers were expecting. And I hope that Gauthier – and ...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/well-miss-you-halak.html

A few things that have been on my mind lately: 1. Idiots are their own worst PR nightmare. Let ’em talk long enough, they’ll shoot themselves in the foot. No need to do it for them. 2. Lazine...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/things-ive-been-thinking-about.html

The NHL research and development camp is testing a series of potential new rules, with the aim of deciding which ones – if any – should be rolled out during the regular season. Here’s my r...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/hey-nhl-rd-stop-killing-hockey.html

Wait, am I reading this right? Georges Laraque is now the deputy leader of the Green Party? The same Georges Laraque who, after two woeful seasons in a Habs’ jersey, thought this would be a log...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/laraque-goes-green.html

The world’s biggest party kicks off today. Nope, it’s not the Stanley Cup, much as we might like to think so (oh, and congrats, Blackhawks) but the cup that only comes around once every fou...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/world-cup-2010.html

We’re in the conference finals, baby!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Here was the scene in McLean’s Pub with about a minute left in the game: Penguins are going golfing. Habs are moving on to the conf...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/habs-beat-pens-game.html

It was the shot heard from coast to coast – Sidney Crosby’s overtime goal to win this hockey game 3-2 and secure the record-breaking 14th gold medal for Canada. A fitting feather in the cap o...

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We’ve now won 10 gold medals, which – at the moment, anyway – is more than any other team. Our athletes are impressing the hell out of everyone, on the skating rink, the ski hill, the hocke...

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Shots: 45-23 for Canada. Final score: 5-3 for USA. Ouch. ‘Nuff said. *Sigh*. Onto the qualifying game, and hopefully we’ll get a chance for revenge. Update: Canada fared somewhat better at Ho...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/heartbreak-in-vancouver.html

The biggest attraction at the Olympics? Stephen Colbert, who’s been on site all week. He and Michael Bublé sang their unique take on the national anthem. He’s done mock tryouts for events. H...

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The Olympic opening ceremonies will stand as a shining example of where creative-by-committee will get you. As best as I can figure, someone at some point must have had a cool creative concept fo...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/5-things-they-should-have-done-at-the-opening-ceremonies.html

Bob Gainey has announced his resignation as Habs’ GM: “I’ve done my best and now it’s time for me to pass the torch,” Gainey said on Monday. “I believe that the general manager positi...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/in-gainey-we-trust-ed.html

Habs are 3-0 since Cammalleri went down. And not against any slouch teams, either. Vancouver, the freefalling Boston, and Pittsburgh are our latest victims. And what’s more, we’ve looked real...

https://www.segacs.com/2010/can-we-call-it-a-streak-yet.html

Habs’ defenceman Ryan O’Byrne, interviewed about his fight against Aaron Voros during tonight’s 6-0 shutout of the Rangers: “I just want to see it on You Tube.” Well, here you go, Ryan....

https://www.segacs.com/2010/hockey-in-the-era-of-social-media.html

Jaroslav Halak is reportedly on the trading block, according to “rumours”. What, you mean rumours leaked by the organization itself? The post Halak to be traded? first appeared on Segacs'...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/halak-to-be-traded.html

Which is the most apt comparison? (polls) The post The resemblance is uncanny first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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And in style, too, with a 5-1 win over the arch-rival Bruins, with Cammalleri getting the hat trick and Carey Price making 37 saves. Before the game, pretty much every living Hab great in history...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/habs-celebrate-100-years.html

The Als are the new Grey Cup champs. Let the honking begin… The post Alouettes win Grey Cup first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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Au revoir, Gui. The post Latendresse traded first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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I looked outside and saw masses of cars honking like crazy and waving Algerian flags out the windows. And I had to ask myself why. Oh. That’s why. Algeria became the last African nation to qual...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/whats-with-all-that-honking.html

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was commemorated with free outdoor concerts and celebrations this weekend. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Obama healthcare re...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/weekend-update.html

Allegations that the Calgary Flames cut in line for the H1N1 vaccine: The provincial health minister wants to know if swine flu shots were “inappropriately diverted” to the Calgary Flames whi...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/wait-your-turn.html

Bixi is apparently having a problem with too many bikes ending up downtown and not making it back to the Plateau. You’d think someone might have anticipated this issue when they introduced a pu...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/montreal-isms-3.html

Well, the Habs are down 3-0 against the Bruins, and the season is a hair’s breath from over. But, watching from the reds this evening, I couldn’t even work my way up to being upset about it. ...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/the-hockey-team-we-deserve.html

Turns out Bob Gainey wasn’t completely accurate when he said he wasn’t going to make any more moves this season. He didn’t trade any players on deadline day, but he did just fire Guy Carbon...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/carbo-out-gainey-in.html

Shots: 48-22 in favour of Colorado. Final score: 4-2 Habs. Halak stole that one for us. At least one of our goalies seems to have rediscovered his confidence, even if it’s the wrong one. But th...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/losing-streak-snapped.html

Trying to find an adequate word to describe the Habs’ dismal performance as of late. “Disastrous” just doesn’t seem strong enough. Gainey’s got a busy couple of weeks ahead. He’ll nee...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/bad-to-worse.html

The Habs looked like themselves again last night, handily beating the Penguins 4-2 and playing like they meant it. About time. Hope they can keep it up. The post Enfin first appeared on Segacs...

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And now, you can study it at school. Yes, believe it or not, there’s a course at Université de Montréal, all about the religion of the Habs: The Swiss-born Universite de Montreal professor sa...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/chez-nous-hockeys-not-just-a-game-its-a-religion.html

Two seats in the reds at the Bell Centre: $240. T-shirt with Habs logo in Hebrew letters: 30 shekels. Coffee and a muffin from Tim Horton’s: $2.50. Being there to see the game-winning goal scor...

https://www.segacs.com/2009/habs-5-caps-4.html

There’s a busker in the Place-des-Arts metro station almost every afternoon at rush hour, playing Moonlight Sonata on his keyboard. Three notes, over and over again, echoing off the walls. Beau...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/november-melancholy.html

The Habs opened the regular season tonight with a 2-1 shootout loss against Buffalo. Lang played a great game. Tanguay, not so much. Kovy is hogging the puck again, but it’s definitely the Kovy...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/et-cest-parti.html

A Palestinian terrorist asshole sent Livni a welcome message by slamming his car into a group of Israelis in Jerusalem, injuring 19. Analysts are predicting more attacks, as summer vacation is ap...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/in-brief-3.html

Individual tickets for the Canadiens go on sale at noon today, after the Habs postponed the original date from Saturday when the online system crashed due to user overload. Anyone taking bets on ...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/habs-tickets-on-sale-today.html

Whew, this is what I get for being out of the loop for a couple of days. It’s hard to even keep up! Let’s see, we’ve got: Marian Hossa to Detroit, where he obviously wants to try to win a C...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/nhl-free-agency-begins.html

Quick quiz: How is NHL agitator-extraordinaire Sean Avery spending his summer vacation? A) Hockey practice?B) Starting bar fights?C) Interning at Vogue magazine? Yeah, I was kinda surprised too. ...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/hockey-super-pest-and-fashionista.html

NHL draft update: The moves have started already. The Habs picked up Alex Tanguay from Calgary in exchange for this year’s first-round pick and next year’s second-round pick. Not sure how I f...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/more-on-the-draft.html

All eyes will be on the NHL Entry Draft tonight. In addition to the new talent, the wheeling and dealing of draft picks will lead to interesting trade speculation. Here’s hoping the Mats Sundin...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/draft-night.html

CBC’s surprising decision last week not to renew the licensing agreement for the theme song to Hockey Night in Canada has been met with opportunism by the likes of CTV… and Stephen Colbert: S...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/colbert-co-opts-hnic-theme-song.html

It ended with a whimper rather than a bang. As he often does, the Gazette’s Aislin expressed it best: Sad as it is, the Habs defied a lot of expectations this season, and I’m predicting even ...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/rip-habs-season.html

What is there to say about tonight’s loss that puts us down 3-1 against the Flyers other than… ouch. I don’t want to lose faith in the Habs, but there’s very little hope of them recoverin...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/dejected.html

I hate the overtime shootout with every fiber of my being. I mention this fact now because I believe a monkey spinning a giant logo-covered carnival wheel is just as entertaining and has as much ...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/hockey-quote-of-the-day.html

Tonight’s Game 1 between the Habs and the Flyers featured: 67 shots on goal (34 by Montreal, 33 by Philly)60 saves by the two goalies (30 each)60 percent of faceoffs won by the Habs (71% succes...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/game-1-by-the-numbers.html

Philly beat Washington in overtime in tonight’s game 7 to win the first round and advance, ending the Caps’ Cinderella-like late season run in the process. The game was won on the powerplay a...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/bring-on-the-flyers.html

It sounds like we won the Stanley Cup out there, with all the horns honking and people partying in the streets. But no, all we did was win round 1 to advance to round 2. Not that it was easy, min...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/game-7.html

The only thing worse than being a loser is being a quitter. The Habs completely quit tonight – on each other, on their team, on their coach and on their fans. They gave up. Therefore, they chok...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/disappointment.html

It only took the NHL one day to implement a new rule specifically aimed at agitator-extraordinaire Sean Avery: “An unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty will be interpreted and applied, effecti...

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Does anyone really still believe that Mugabe will go quietly? Didn’t think so. Here we go again: The construction on St-Laurent launches full steam ahead into round 2… as though round 1 wasn�...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/in-brief-2.html

It’s official: Philadelphia’s defeat of Pittsburgh this afternoon has helped the Montreal Canadiens win first place in the Eastern Conference. I’m taking playoff predictions as of now. Who ...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/best-in-the-east.html

The Habs closed the 2007-08 regular season tonight in a highly appropriate fashion: With a 3-1 win over the hapless Leafs, putting us in first place in the conference, with a chance to stay there...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/notes-on-a-great-season.html

The Habs clinched the division championship tonight with a 3-0 shutout of the Sens, hitting the hundred-point mark and capping our most promising season since we last won the Cup in ’93. At the...

https://www.segacs.com/2008/first-place.html

Who knows how long it will last… but first place sure does look good: Go Habs! The post Back on top first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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The 2-0 final score of tonight’s blanking of Buffalo by Montreal sounds a whole lot better than it actually was. After an ugly first period, kept scoreless only by Huet’s heroic efforts, the ...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/we-may-not-have-earned-it-but-well-take-it.html

Big success for the Habs last night, as Carey Price showed the poise and confidence of a goaltender far older than his years. He stopped enough of what the Crosby-led Pens threw at him to lead th...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/prices-debut.html

As the season kicks into gear, check out Illegal Curve, a new and very promising hockey blog with a very plugged-in list of contributors. The post New hockey blog first appeared on Segacs's Wo...

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All signs are pointing towards it. In the NHL free agent frenzy of the past few days, Gainey pushed hard for marquee players like Briere, Smyth, and of course Souray, but in the end was forced to...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/habs-in-for-another-rough-year.html

Ducks take it at home in 5. I’m disappointed for the Sens – this marks the third straight year that a Canadian team has made it to the finals and lost. And it means that *still* the Cup hasn�...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/ducks-win-stanley-cup.html

The Habs signed top defenseman Andrei Markov to a 4-year contract today, cementing his long-term future with the club. Markov was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, but h...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/markov-signed.html

You know you’re Canadian when you will cheer on any Canadian hockey team still in the playoffs (except the Leafs, of course). Since my Habs aren’t there, I’m now on the Sens’ bandwagon, s...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/sens-nation.html

Canada wins gold yet again at the World Hockey Championship, with this afternoon’s 4-2 victory over the Finns. Woohoo! (Now that Gilles Duceppe’s 24-hour run for PQ leadership is over, he can...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/still-our-game.html

Canada must not have enough real problems, if something like this is keeping our Parliamentarians occupied all week: The issue erupted on Parliament Hill this week as opposition parties criticize...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/we-need-to-give-our-politicians-more-to-do.html

What is there left to say? If only the reffing had been more fair… if only Huet hadn’t let in that soft goal in the first period… if only Steve Begin hadn’t taken the world’s worst doub...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/heartbreak.html

Well, maybe that’s overstating things a little. But they couldn’t have scripted it much better than this: Last game of the season, the two biggest NHL rivals in the two biggest hockey cities ...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/game-of-the-century.html

The New York Rangers’ shit-disturber Sean Avery, who not only contributed two goals and an assist to the Rangers’ 7-2 pounding of the Leafs, but also punched out Darcy Tucker in the first per...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/unlikely-hero.html

The Two-Minute Haggadah A Passover service for the impatient. By Michael Rubiner Opening prayers: Thanks, God, for creating wine. (Drink wine.) Thanks for creating produce. (Eat parsley.) Overvie...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/passover-for-hockey-fans.html

I guess it was unrealistic to expect the Habs to win every single game from now until the playoffs. But last night’s loss to the Sens was just plain ugly. We’re going to need to turn things a...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/imperfection.html

It’s the only thing… keeping us in the playoff race, that is. But even the Habs’ winning streak – 6 out of the last 7 – may not be enough. So far, we’ve kept pace but we haven’t adv...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/winning-aint-everything.html

The Comedy Network is looking for Colbert lookalikes: Finalists will compete in Oshawa, Ontario on March 20, which has been declared “Stephen Colbert Day” by Mayor John Gray. The winner will ...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/colbert-wannabes-to-compete-in-oshawa.html

Tonight’s televised leadership debate apparently “had lots of jousting, but lacked a definitive knock-out blow.” I’ll have to take their word for it, I suppose. I was otherwise occupied, ...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/knock-out-blows.html

With soccer on the rise in North America, I guess the NHL feels that it may be time for another sporting cultural exchange attempt with Europe, and has announced that the Ducks and Kings will ope...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/hockey-in-london.html

Let’s review: Gainey ships Rivet to the Sharks, then stays so quiet today at the trade deadline that he doesn’t even bother to call a press conference. Meanwhile, all of our conference rivals...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/throwing-in-the-towel.html

We’ve now slipped to 8th place in the East after last night’s frustrating 1-0 loss to Florida. And tonight, we’re facing a red-hot New Jersey team, against which we never seem to manage to ...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/bad-news-habs.html

Last night at the Bell Centre, the Habs made an excellent recovery from Saturday’s disaster in Toronto to beat Ottawa, one of the hottest teams in the NHL right now, 3-1. But it was Ken Dryden�...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/dryden-immortalised-habs-victorious.html

Montreal will be hosting the 2009 NHL all-star game. Anyone know where I can get my ticket? The post Hockey lives here first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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The Habs finally woke up. Efforts from such underperformers as Kovalev, Samsonov and Plekanec, not to mention a stellar performance from all-star goalie Huet, led the Habs to a much-needed 4-1 vi...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/finally.html

Note to Natasha Aimee Hall in today’s Gazette: I don’t know what you’re smoking, or if you went to sleep 40 years ago and suddenly woke up yesterday. But I suggest you take a good hard look...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/female-hockey-fans-this-is-news.html

That’s how a colleague described yesterday’s Habs’ 4-2 victory over the Flyers. An ugly game to be sure, but two points are two points, and we’ll take ’em whenever we can get ’em. Sti...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/best-of-the-worst.html

The world’s most famous footballer, David Beckham, announced yesterday that he’s leaving Madrid to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy in the rich-in-cash, poor-in-fan support MLS. Beckham claims...

https://www.segacs.com/2007/beckham-moves-to-la-la-land.html

Final score: Canada 4, Russia 2. Still our game. The post Gold for Canada first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

https://www.segacs.com/2007/gold-for-canada.html

Sympathies for Bob Gainey and his family on the loss of his daughter, Laura, 25, who was officially declared lost at sea after more than 80 hours of searching. It’s obvious that the Habs are sa...

https://www.segacs.com/2006/search-ends-in-failure.html

That should’ve been a penalty on Stuart on the hit on Ryder, no question. Robbery, I tell ya! The post We wuz robbed first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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Dion’s overtime win against Ignatieff foreshadowed the Habs’ overtime win against the Leafs. Eat your heart out, Toronto! The post Montreal 2, Toronto 0 first appeared on Segacs's World I ...

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The greatest goalie of our times, and possibly even of all time, Patrick Roy, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame today. And if they ever start a Hockey Hall of Shame, then Mario Tremblay a...

https://www.segacs.com/2006/respect-for-the-great-one.html

And that’s how it’s done. Way to go, les boys. The post Lightning grounded first appeared on Segacs's World I Know .

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Key contests tonight: Congress: Democrats take control with a projected 16-seat gain. Senate: Still too close to call, but looks like the Republicans will narrowly hang on. Hockey: Habs 3-2 over ...

https://www.segacs.com/2006/tonights-results.html

I’m watching the hockey game, of course, like any good Canadian. Nice to see Latendresse score his first NHL goal. Playing on the top line tonight, this was his big chance, and I’m glad to se...

https://www.segacs.com/2006/while-the-americans-watch-the-election-results.html