It was a somber beginning to a rare Sunday night game at the Bell Centre and the ending wasn’t any happier.  The somber ending was due to another home loss by the Canadiens in an underwhelming game [ ... ]

Before their tilt on Wednesday night the Boston Bruins were 15 points ahead of the Montreal Canadiens.  That really doesn’t play into it much when it comes to these two teams.  Throughout the long [ ... ]

These Montreal Canadiens have made it a very interesting season.  Now before you go and call the men with the white suits and butterfly nets believing that I have gone off the deep end (it was inevit [ ... ]

Despite the look on Erik Cole’s face after the game (not an especially happy one) a win against the best team in the Eastern Division and in dominating fashion was an accomplishment.  After the Hab [ ... ]

This was an eventful week for Montreal with the trade of the unhappy Michael Cammalleri to the Calgary Flames for winger Rene Bourque.  Bourque was not in the line up as he was sitting out the last g [ ... ]

Tampa and Montreal are both in the midst (half way to be precise) of disappointing seasons.  Tampa made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals last season and Montreal took the eventual Stan [ ... ]

It was not the game they wanted to be playing on this day.  The Canadian Junior team had targeted the evening gold medal game, but a thrilling 6-5 loss to Russia in the semi-finals changed their plan [ ... ]

Big night in Montreal.  Hockeywise, I mean.  This was the third meeting of the year between the two Canadian teams.  Each had 1 win against the other so far.  Most recently, on December 22, 2011,  [ ... ]

It has become a New Year’s Eve tradition.  This was the eighth year that Canada and the U.S. have met during the World Junior Championships on New Year’s Eve.  Before the tournament began people [ ... ]

On the opening day of the 2012 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships there were still some questions in regards to the Canadian team.  Who would be the starting goaltender?  Where would the goal sc [ ... ]

Thank God I have the World Junior Hockey Championships to distract me from the mess that is the Montreal Canadiens.  While I have almost lost all hope for my beloved Habs I am filled with it for our  [ ... ]

All the sports chat shows and on-line sites were ablaze yesterday.  It wasn’t because the New Jersey Devils were in town with Martin Brodeur getting the start between the pipes.  The reason for al [ ... ]

It is almost pointless to talk about the specifics of last night’s tilt against the worst team in the NHL, the Columbus Blue Jackets.  The bottom line is that the Canadiens lately have been playing [ ... ]

The CFL 2011 season wrapped up this past Sunday with the British Columbia Lions defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 34-23 in the Grey Cup final.  Though we cannot expect the Montreal Alouettes to be  [ ... ]

Every Saturday night game at the Bell Centre is filled with energy, but when the opposition is the Pittsburgh Penguins featuring a newly returned Sidney Crosby, who was participating in only his fourt [ ... ]

All good things come to an end, but I ask of you good people, does it have to end in such a disheartening way?  This was a painful loss to swallow.  Not totally a surprise, but it still hurts.  Unl [ ... ]

Sports is a funny thing.  One moment a team can be down and out losing plenty with their own fans booing them and then the next they are in the middle of a three game win streak.  And that win strea [ ... ]

Many athletes will say that it is a dangerous thing to play a desperate team.  Before their game versus the Philadelphia Flyers, if you looked up the word desperate in the dictionary the entire Montr [ ... ]

News came before the game versus the Buffalo Sabres that defenceman Andrei Markov would definitely not be returning to play anytime in October.  This news came did not come as a surprise to anyone wh [ ... ]

The CFL season is winding down.  With four games left, two being in the friendly confines of home, the Montreal Alouettes found themselves in a tie with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for 1st place in the [ ... ]

Montreal was coming off two emotional wins and as such coach Mark Trestman gave his troops ample time off this past week to allow them to have the energy (emotional and physical) required for this gam [ ... ]

In their last season in the NASL before they make the big move to the MLS the Montreal Impact had what can only be categorized as a disappointing one.  Montreal is very hard on its sports teams and u [ ... ]

Turnaround is fair play they say.  Well, the Montreal Canadiens were victims of that in the second game of an away-and-home series against the Ottawa Senators.  Friday night in Ottawa (Kanata actual [ ... ]

Here we go! Last night was the beginning of the 2011-12 NHL season.  Actually, it was the first (of 8) preseason game for the bleu, blanc, rouge.  Still there was a buzz in the building that only ha [ ... ]

This was to be a meeting at the summit.  It turned out to be one team recovering from two losses in a row while the other now has to ask itself some serious questions.  This was the first meeting of [ ... ]

This was the last home game of the regular season for the Montreal Impact.  The Impact were facing off against Canadian foes, FC Edmonton.  The home side finds themselves in the unenviable position  [ ... ]

We are finally here!  It is almost the beginning of another NHL hockey season.  The Montreal Canadiens are holding their annual preseason golf tournament today at the Club de Golf Laval-sur-le-Lac,  [ ... ]

Two time defending Grey Cup champions the Montreal Alouettes have been having a rough time of it lately.  Montreal was coming off two straight losses including being squashed last week in Hamilton.  [ ... ]

The reaction I often get when I tell my friends to take in some women’s professional sports is doubt and laughter.  They don’t believe me when I say that, yes, it is a different game from when me [ ... ]

Together CN and Golf Canada are the hosts for the only LPGA event in Canada.  Last year it was held in Winnipeg and this year it is Montreal’s turn.  The top players are here en masse and the last [ ... ]

One of the top strikers to ever play for the Montreal Impact is Eduardo Sebrango.  A consummate professional and a talented goal scorer throughout his career, Sebrango decided at the end of last seas [ ... ]

Every summer is right in the middle of the professional soccer season over here in North America while it is the preseason or training camp time for European squads.  It has become something of a tra [ ... ]

Montreal is a city that loves events and Friday night’s CFL game definitely qualified as one.  Former standout slot back and recent retiree Ben Cahoon was going to be honoured at half time and vete [ ... ]

This was game one of the Women’s World Cup 2011 semi-finals.  The U.S. has been to at least the semis in every single edition of the World Cup.  Impressive! The U.S. was facing off against the ups [ ... ]

Coming into the Women’s World Cup ranked number six in the world placed some pressure on the slender shoulders of the Canadian team.  It is not an overstatement to say that expectations were high c [ ... ]

Over here in North America what we call football is much different from what the rest of the world means.  In North America what we mean when we say football is the game that involves throwing or run [ ... ]

The official kick off game (even though France and Nigeria had played earlier in the day)  to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011 saw the host German team having to face the upstarts from Canada.  The [ ... ]

Soccer or football is called the beautiful sport and is played worldwide.  It is the most played sport across the globe.  It has become a game that women play as much as men.  29 million women play [ ... ]

Montrealers can be fickle sports fans.  The Montreal Expos were always a decent baseball team and yet they had trouble attracting fans, which led to their downfall.  Despite the fact that the Mont [ ... ]

On a miserable, cold, rainy day the Montreal Impact did nothing to make the almost 12,000 brave souls who endured the weather and came to the game feel better.  Nor must have coach Marc Dos Santos. [ ... ]