Rant answers: Classic, shootouts and more
As you might imagine, the Winter Classic dominated our weekly rants. Again, yet another reminder that the rant blog is for RANTS. If you have hockey q...
View ArticleRant answers: Fearing another Caps collapse and more goalie strife
Another week, another long list of rants to filter through. You puckheads are an angry bunch! Let's take a look: blejays: my rant is about my comm...
View ArticleNHL: Montreal Canadiens-Toronto Maple Leafs playoff series would be crazy-good
The Maple Leafs and Canadiens last met in the playoffs in 1979. If the two teams meet this year, writes Pierre LeBrun, it would be hockey fandemonium.
View ArticleNever too early for LeBrun's awards
In about a week, I will fill out my official NHL awards ballot as a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. The PHWA votes on the H...
View ArticleLeBrun -- Goaltending is Team Canada's biggest question heading to Sochi
With all of the strengths Team Canada has, goaltending remains an uncertainty heading into the 2014 Sochi Olympics, writes Pierre LeBrun.
View ArticleLeBrun -- Picking Team Canada's roster for 2014 Sochi Olympics
Pierre LeBrun puts together his Team Canada roster for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
View ArticlePlease give us Habs-Leafs in the playoffs
TORONTO -- Dear hockey gods, please arrange for these two teams to play in the playoffs. Pretty please, pretty, pretty, pretty please. A usually...
View ArticleNHL -- Handing out NHL's individual awards
With just over two weeks remaining in the NHL season, Pierre LeBrun looks at the front-runners for the NHL's individual awards.
View ArticleNHL - 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs preview: Tampa Bay Lightning versus Montreal...
Young players on the Tampa Bay Lightning roster are about to experience something unlike anything they've ever seen: playoff hockey in Montreal. The N...
View Article2014-15 NHL season preview -- Predicting the league's award winners
Pierre LeBrun offers up his predictions for the NHL's major awards in 2014-15, including two trophies for Steven Stamkos.
View ArticleNHL -- 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs: Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators
The Canadiens have the best goalie in the league right now, but in the first round they face a red-hot Senators team fully capable of pulling off an upset.
View ArticleDespite winning Atlantic Division, are Canadiens underdogs against Senators?
MONTREAL -- Second place in the overall standings and 110 points sure doesn't get you what it used to. Judging by the number of hockey observers pi...
View ArticleCanadiens facing their first true test of the season
MONTREAL -- This is the moment of reckoning for the Montreal Canadiens. The NHL's second-best team in the regular season with 110 points never has ...
View ArticleCanadiens just can't find a way to beat Lightning
TAMPA, Fla. -- When a team has beaten the other six times in 58 days, logic goes out the window. Time to bring out the voodoo dolls. The Tampa ...
View ArticleNHL - 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs - New York Rangers vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
Two Eastern Conference titans go head-to-head with all sorts of storylines to keep track of. Which team will move on to the finals?
View ArticleNHL -- Reto Berra has become the go-to stopper for the Colorado Avalanche
Reto Berra, unexpectedly the leading goalie in the league, has pulled his game together at exactly the right time for the Avalanche.
View ArticleNHL - 2016 World Cup of Hockey - Canada roster projections
As the countdown continues to the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, here's our latest projection as to what the Team Canada roster will look like. Spoiler alert: Jake Muzzin, in the house!
View ArticleNHL -- Winter Classic more than glitz and cameras this year for Montreal...
A win in the Winter Classic could be a springboard to a strong second half of the season for the Canadiens or Bruins.
View ArticleNHL -- Speed and skill prevail as Montreal Canadiens claim Winter Classic win
The little guys delivered on the biggest stage as the Montreal Canadiens rolled to a 5-1 crushing of the rival Boston Bruins at Gillette Stadium.
View ArticleLeBrun: P.K. Subban, Corey Perry among Canada snubs
Even with their goaltending hierarchy established, Canada has some difficult decisions to make in naming its final roster.
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