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Sports columnist at The Montreal Gazette and regular panelist on the HI/O Show talking about the Canadiens on . scowan @postmedia .com

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1 year
I have to shake my head when people criticize P.K. Subban for making his association with the Montreal Children's Hospital so public while Wayne Gretzky, Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews are doing ads for a gambling website. #HabsIO #HabsIO
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My column on Ricky Cobb, the 50-year-old sociology teacher from Chicago who is the man behind the Super 70s Sports Twitter account @Super70sSports , which is one of the best and funniest things you can find on social media. He's also an #Expos fan:
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I’m old enough to remember when Hockey Night in Canada had Peter Puck to teach kids about hockey instead of constant ads to teach them how to become gamblers.
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2 years
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's silence so far on Rocky Wirtz's comments last night in Chicago speaks volumes.
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7 months
Just to be clear. If you’re an NHL player and you gamble (NOT on hockey) in a league that heavily promotes gambling you will be suspended for half a season. But if you slash another player in the head there is no suspension and only a $5,000 fine. Only in the NHL.
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5 years
Today would have been Terry Fox's 61st birthday. A true Canadian hero.
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2 years
14,563 fans in Quebec City tonight for a junior hockey game. Meanwhile, the NHL's Arizona Coyotes will play in a 5,000-seat arena next season. Somehow this makes sense to Gary Bettman.
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14 563 spectateurs ce soir au @centrevideotron . Meilleure foule depuis 2019 #LHJMQ
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5 years
My column with the story behind the video that went viral of #Habs goalie Carey Price hugging a young fan who recently lost his mother to cancer #HabsIO :
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3 years
I wouldn't be surprised if the NHL hires Tom Wilson to run the Department of Player Safety after he retires.
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2 years
I showed up early for news conference with Guy Lafleur at Bell Centre in 2016. He was sitting by himself (I took photo below), looking like a million bucks. When I asked if he got his tan on golf course, he replied. "I hate golf." He said he got the tan painting his house. RIP.
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3 years
Watching Jake Allen sitting at end of #Habs bench - a forgotten man in playoffs - it's important to remember Canadiens wouldn't be here if it wasn't for how he played in regular season #HabsIO
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3 years
If NHL doesn't suspend Jets' Mark Scheifele for at least the rest of this series it's a total joke. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
Today would have been Terry Fox's 64th birthday. A true Canadian hero who was only 22 when he died from cancer. RIP.
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3 years
When a photo is worth more than 1,000 words #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
The NHL really should be embarrassed by its officiating. It's so bad. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
O Canada was sung in English and French for #Habs in both St. Louis and Minnesota but only in English in Winnipeg. Not right #NHLJets #HabsIO
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2 years
My column on Ricky Cobb, a 50-year-old college sociology teacher from Chicago who is the man behind the Super 70s Sports Twitter account @Super70sSports , which is one of the best and funniest things you can find on social media. He's also an #Expos fan:
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3 years
I hate going down this road but the NHL really shouldn't have Chris Lee officiating #Habs games. There must be something personal. #HabsIO
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3 years
Still trying to figure out how Erik Gustafsson and Jon Merrill are better than Alexander Romanov. #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
How can the NHL allow its officiating to be so bad in the Stanley Cup semifinals. It really is a joke. #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
My column on young Carey Price fan turning the tables and now showing his support for #Habs goalie who helped him emotionally deal with the death of his mother almost three years ago #HabsIO :
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3 years
Big kudos to Jennifer Botterill @JenBotterill for not being intimidated by Kevin Bieksa and the NHL old-boys’ club on HNIC when it comes to speaking out against Tom Wilson and violence on ice. What a breath of fresh air and common sense.
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Happy birthday to David Ayres, the Zamboni driver/goalie who beat the Maple Leafs. He turns 44 today. #HabsIO
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2 years
Not sure if others feel same way but it’s cringeworthy watching Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavid doing TV ad together for a betting website.
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2 years
I asked Juraj Slafkovsky to pose for a photo after his media scrum in Brossard at #Habs development camp. He said: “Straight face or smiling.” So I got both. Hard not to like this kid. Also hard to believe he’s only 18 #HabsIO
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3 years
I guess Claude Julien wasn't the problem. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
Saw this photo this morning on Facebook of #Habs Carey Price, Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield at the Blue Jays game last night in Toronto #HabsIO :
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I feel sad every time I walk past the old Forum now and see that it has been turned into a Dollarama store. Also sad seeing all the boarded-up storefronts on Ste. Catherine St. I’m old enough to remember when downtown Montreal was booming #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
Chris Lee, especially, and Dan O'Rourke should not be allowed to work another playoff game after this one no matter who wins. Will be interesting to see if NHL allows them to. #Habs #HabsIO
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6 years
P.K. Subban mentioned last year that none of his #Habs teammates ever went to the Montreal Children's Hospital with him. A bunch of his #Preds teammates went there with him today. #HabsIO .
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3 years
As bad as referees Chris Lee and Dan O’Rourke were the last two games, Kelly Sutherland and Eric Furlatt have done a very good job tonight. Both teams have two power plays and players actually seem to know what will and won't be called. #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
Watching both Brett Kulak and Alexander Romanov play tonight it's really hard to understand how #Habs decided to stick with Jon Merrill and Erik Gustafsson for so long. #HabsIO
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3 years
Crazy to think that accidentally shooting the puck over the glass will get you a two-minute penalty in the NHL. But a vicious head shot like the one #Habs Jesperi Kotkaniemi took last night is considered totally legal. #HabsIO
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3 years
Only a matter of time until someone dies in an NHL game unless they start coming down really hard on hits like this. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 months
I took this photo of Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur before a news conference in 2016. He looked like a million bucks and when I asked if he got his tan playing golf, he said: "I hate golf." He added he got his tan painting his house. It was two years ago today that he died. RIP.
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3 years
I think Vegas would have to basically murder #Habs Corey Perry for him to get a penalty call from these refs. #HabsIO
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5 years
My column with the story behind video that went viral of #Habs goalie Carey Price hugging a sobbing young fan who recently lost his mother to cancer #HabsIO :
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3 years
Pretty sad that the NHL has allowed its incompetent officials to become the main talking point in the Stanley Cup semifinals instead of the players on the ice. #Habs #HabsIO
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5 years
Bruins’ Brad Marchand acts like a total jerk yet again in postgame interview with @SNkylebukauskas . Not a surprise. Marchand an embarrassment to NHL.
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2 years
After years of never getting any one-on-one interviews with #Habs , in last two weeks I've had one-on-ones with GM Kent Hughes, France Margaret Bélanger (president of sports and entertainment for Groupe CH) and coach Martin St. Louis. @ChantalMachabee is really changing things.
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7 months
The Toronto Maple Leafs' signed 36-year-old Ryan Reaves to a three-year, $4.05-million contract this summer. After 10 games he has zero points, 12 penalty minutes and is minus-6 while averaging 7:49 of ice time per game.
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When Coyotes can't fill seats in a 5,000-seat arena in Arizona with the Canadiens in town, what's the point of building a bigger arena to keep the team there? #Habs #HabsIO
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Michael Pezzetta and Arber Xhekaj work together on their fighting skills at end of Canadiens practice #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
How is that head shot on #Habs Jesperi Kotkaniemi not a penalty? NHL refereeing is absolutely brutal.
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2 years
Nothing personal, but I think I like Mark Messier and Chris Chelios more during intermission of Stanley Cup final than Cabbie and the betting guy.
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5 years
Will never understand why some #Habs fans at Bell Centre boo P.K. Subban. He loved everything about playing in Montreal and played hard every night. #HabsIO
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2 years
Brendan Gallagher presented John Lu ⁦ @JohnLuTSNWpg ⁩ and Dan Robertson ⁦ @DanRTSN ⁩ with autographed #Habs sweaters after morning skate in Winnipeg. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
Charging fans full price for tickets to NHL pre-season games really should be a crime.
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3 years
Did Chris Lee ever try out for the #Habs and get cut?
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9 months
Pittsburgh ⁦ @penguins ⁩ defenceman Kris Letang (left) skating with Canadiens players this morning in Brossard #Habs #HabsIO
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Will never understand why former Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin didn't want the alumni around the team. #Habs #HabsIO
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1 year
Nos @AnciensCHC et quelques membres actuels de l'organisation se sont réunis lundi pour un 5 à 7 🐐 Current Habs and alumni got together for a 5 à 7 on Monday and all we see are goats #GoHabsGo
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Fantastic to see Anderson Whitehead invited to #NHLAwards for a surprise meeting with #Habs Carey Price, bringing boy to tears again. He also got invite from Price to NHL All-Star Game next season. Here's column I wrote about Anderson this season #HabsIO :
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#Habs head coach Dominique Ducharme says he hasn't watched the Toronto Maple Leafs Netflix documentary All Or Nothing on last season yet but he's looking forward to watching it when he has time. He does already knows how it ends. #HabsIO
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3 years
I guess the Lightning are allowed to do whatever they want to #Habs Nick Suzuki without being penalized.
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7 months
Kudos to Senators owner Michael Andlauer for calling out Wayne Gretzky on all his TV ads promoting gambling to young people - including NHL players
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3 years
#Habs Corey Perry accidentally runs into John Tavares so now he has to fight. "The Code". Crazy.
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#Habs need to officially make Samuel Montembeault their No. 1 goalie. Enough of this three-goalie rotation. #HabsIO
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5 years
My column with the story behind video that went viral of #Habs goalie Carey Price hugging a young fan who recently lost his mother to cancer #HabsIO :
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Big ovation and chants of “Carey! Carey!” as Carey Price is shown on scoreboard at Bell Centre #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
Great quote from Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis after training camp today: “I’m a big believer – especially with young guys – I look at their ceiling. I don’t care about the floor. I really don’t when they’re young. Show me your ceiling – we’ll fix the floor.” #HabsIO
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3 years
This is pathetic. Remember #Habs Jake Evans was the victim - not #NHLJets Mark Scheifele. Evans was the one taken off ice on a stretcher and is still recovering from a concussion. Scheifele is lucky his suspension was only 4 games. #Habs #HabsIO
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"I thought I was gonna be shut down by Phillip Danault, and it was the Department of Player Safety that shut me down." Mark Scheifele on his suspension, dealing with setbacks, and what's next for him this summer:
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3 years
The #Leafs didn’t want Lou Lamoriello as their GM anymore. Islanders very happy about that.
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“Guy! Guy! Guy!” #Habs #HabsIO
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This is beautiful. Jake Allen is one of the classiest athletes I have ever dealt with. The positive impact he had on Canadiens' young players will be felt for a long time in locker room. Wishing him and his family all the best in New Jersey. #Habs #HabsIO
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Merci Montreal 💙🤍❤️
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I covered Guy Lafleur Awards of Excellence and Merit in 2016 and he looked fantastic (photo below) in nice suit and a beautiful tan. I asked if he got the tan playing golf. "I hate golf," he responded. So how did he get the tan? "Painting my house," he said. One of a kind. RIP.
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3 years
This is really starting to feel like 1993 for #Habs
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3 years
You can almost feel the state of shock on Sportsnet intermission show. #Habs #HabsIO
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5 years
#Habs captain Shea Weber lost a bet with Artturi Lehkonen on world junior tourney. Lehkonen even autographed the shirt for him #HabsIO
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2 years
Are #Habs fans having fun so far watching these kids play? #HabsIO
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Ryan Reaves on ice with Leafs down by two goals and three minutes left? Amazing.
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2 years
It was a very sad day for my family and I yesterday as we had to put down our beautiful Buster at age 13 after he started to have repeated seizures. He was the world's sweetest & happiest dog, even after going both blind and deaf over the final 18 months of his life. RIP, buddy.
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2 years
Just a reminder that this is not considered to be goalie interference - until next time nearly the exact same play happens and it is called goalie interference on video review. That's how the NHL works - coin flip in Toronto video-review room. It's become a joke. #Habs #HabsIO
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4 years
So the Flyers lasted one more series than the #Habs . Have to say I lost a lot of respect for Flyers coach Alain Vigneault after his immature and idiotic comments about Brendan Gallagher having his jaw broken by a cross-check in first round.
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5 years
I can't remember an NHL game with worse refereeing than I saw tonight at Bell Centre. #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
You know #Habs fever really has hit Montreal when my 22-year-old daughter, who has no interest in sports, wants to go to a sports bar to watch them play in Stanley Cup final. #HabsIO
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1 year
Madame Béliveau is at Bell Centre tonight and it’s her birthday. A special woman. Happy birthday! #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
It has been fun watching defenceman Lane Hutson at #Habs development camp and this goal he just scored in scrimmage was beautiful #HabsIO
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3 months
Happy birthday to legendary Canadiens broadcaster Dick Irvin, who turns 92 today. Here's column I wrote on him two years ago when he turned 90. Such a nice man. #Habs #HabsIO :
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2 years
Imagine being a #Habs player tonight and skating back to the bench and seeing Bob Gainey, Yvan Cournoyer, Réjean Houle, Guy Lapointe, Chris Nilan and other former players sitting directly behind the bench. #HabsIO
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2 years
Other sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB) could learn from NHL - give championship trophy to the players, not the team owner. They won it.
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3 months
Saturday really has become Gambling Night in Canada instead of Hockey Night in Canada. The gambling ads are non-stop. #Habs #HabsIO
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4 years
Expect the NHL to announce that it is suspending the season later this afternoon. #Habs #HabsIO
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3 years
#Habs decision to draft Jesperi Kotkaniemi instead of Brady Tkachuk is really looking bad right now. #HabsIO
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2 years
Gotta love Gallagher telling Slafkovsky to wave to the fans after scoring his first NHL goal. #Habs #HabsIO
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2 years
Le kid est content. The kid's happy. #GoHabsGo
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2 years
#Habs GM Kent Hughes says he traded Andrew Hammond to Devils because goalie deserves chance to keep playing in NHL #HabsIO
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3 years
Paul Byron fighting back tears answering my question about what it means to him to play for #Habs as one of the very few players who lives in Montreal year-round with his French-Canadian wife. #HabsIO
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3 years
I don’t think there’s much doubt Brendan Gallagher is the #Habs real leader. Not the same team without him #HabsIO
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8 months
Fantastic cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon ⁦ @CH_Cartoon ⁩ of Halifax Chronicle Herald
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1 year
Tonight's game between #Habs and Senators will be last one Pat Hickey @zababes1 covers at Bell Centre before taking a voluntary layoff from @mtlgazette and retiring on March 3. The press box won't be the same without my good friend and colleague for more than 30 years. #HabsIO
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3 years
Love that the NHL gives the Stanley Cup to the players who actually won it and not the team owner like they do in NBA, NFL and MLB.
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4 years
Happy birthday to #Habs legend and Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur, who turns 69 today #HabsIO
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5 years
@SusanBlack @journorosa @BobKronbauer Really? "You people that come here".
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2 years
#Habs Josh Anderson gets two-minute penalty for getting high-sticked in the face and cross-checked by Bruins' Brad Marchand. Off-setting penalties. NHL refereeing ... keeps getting worse.
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3 years
Hopefully George Parros and NHL Department of "Player Safety" doesn't call this a "hockey play." Brutal intent-to-injure hit on #Habs Jake Evans by Jets' Mark Scheifele, knocking the kid out cold. #HabsIO
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3 years
"To me it's ruined the product," #Habs Brendan Gallagher says about video reviews.
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3 years
#Habs sponsors starting to react to team's decision to select Logan Mailloux in first round of #NHLDraft2021 #HabsIO :
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10 months
The fact Canadiens sent out these two tweets yesterday but still haven't sent out a tweet welcoming Jeff Petry back to the #Habs - plus the fact GM Kent Hughes still hasn't spoken to media - means there's a very good chance another trade involving Petry is coming soon. #HabsIO
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Stu Cowan
2 years
It was 30 years ago tonight that I met this beautiful woman at the old Déjà-Vu bar on Bishop St. We did a couple of tequila shots together and the rest is history, including two kids, six dogs (two still living), a mortgage and lots of fun. Still best friends. Happy anniversary!
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2 years
Spotted on my walk to Bell Centre for #Habs game. Pretty cool #HabsIO
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