When play by play veteran Bob Cole said he thought Halak might be tired, that standing between the pipes every second night for the past 6 weeks might be taking it’s toll, that the heroic puck stopping against Washington and Pittsburgh may have run it’s course, his logic seemed twisted. The guy 200 feet at [...]

What if both teams could win?, Elizabeth wonders when she looks up from her laptop, distracted from her furniture web search as the third period upset unfolds. Her Châteauguay suburban childhood determined her life-long Habs fan fate. But poor Sidney she says, “He scored the gold medal goal … the Pittsburgh captain too?” Perhaps in [...]

I squeeze beside a gangly guy in his Canucks sweater at the back of the #4 heading downtown and we are an hour before the start of game six. You going to the game? “You bet.” I tell him he is a lucky man. I tell him about a tweet announcing that Sami Salo might [...]

I watch the seventh game between the Habs and Capitals at the local recreation facility. A sweaty red haired guy rides a stationary bike beside me, both of us point our bikes straight at the TV and there is no score yet. I start watching half way through the first period and ask Red how [...]

Watching the loosing Canucks in my walk up apartment is bad enough,  but with digital TV hook up, the game is 4 seconds behind on the TV in the apartment below, a raucous gang of guys who watch on an analogue connection. I hear “Shit!,” and a bottle crash before I see the Blackhawk’s captian [...]