My latest article for @TheHockeyNews looks at the goaltending situation in Montreal: thehockeynews.com/nhl/montreal... #GoHabsGo #CH #Canadiens #Habs #THN

A crucial win and the best 5-on-5 game of Demidov’s career. Also, top marks for Nick Bobrov so far as Canadiens head scout. All in this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1155854...

Sports betting just became legal in Missouri and I have been getting literally endless ads for it. Kinda nuts how quickly gambling became acceptable to just advertise everywhere… and accepted as another way of shitty companies to strip you of your money.

A .935 from Dobes. 3 saves in the shootout. It might be time to run with him as the number one.

I've never seen a team struggle so much at zone exits. It never looks this difficult for any of our opponents

Quite a few scouts in town again today #GoHabsGo

We Act Real Mature About Poilievre’s New Campaign Manager’s Name. feat Luke, Ian, @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @mmmegan.bsky.social

Despite the loss, two major positive developments for the Canadiens recently. Also, you asked a lot who on the blue line is going to get traded now. I answer that in this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1154944...

Canadiens may not get a result here today. Looks like Blackwood is in the mood. However, this is a wagon they're playing, and they're not looking second best. Confidence can come out of a loss too should it be that's the way it goes

#Habs Mike Matheson on contract "There may have been more money elsewhere but that's not my priority. My priority is to be part of this group and win. I'm giving myself a bigger chance to do that here. It's also important for the team to have more money to keep the players we have." #GoHabsGo

the matheson contract is good. in two years, it is going to take up almost the same percentage of the cap as his current deal. great work from the front office and it’s really encouraging that matheson wants to stay and win here. the culture they’ve built is working.

The vets came through, you know, the 26, 24, and 22 year olds, as the Canadiens came back to win in Utah. The Wilde Cards is a quarter mark report card in this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal. globalnews.ca/news/1154550...

This season is going to be one where the American Thanksgiving rule of thumb isn't going to apply very well with how tightly packed everyone is

Now everyone go back to the hotel and no one get hit by a car

the way he was throwing his glove around makes me very confident about him moving forward.

It's baffling to me how especially in the playoffs flagrant penalties can be ignored entirely and result in goals and that's fine but heaven forbid you're a few millimeters offside way before a goal is scored and that's enough to wipe out a goal. Why is that the priority?

Yes by the rules that's how it works blah blah blah, it is still baffling stupid that a difference of a few millimeters that had no effect on the play can overturn a goal on review

my god these guys are playing like shit right now. need to get to the intermission and regroup.

The team seems to have given up on playing defense since the first Utah goal. He's stopping everything reasonable and a bit more

Doing this to Dobes is disgraceful too, this is your easy game on this road trip and you’re just hanging him out to dry

They gave up that power play goal and completely imploded defensively

Opposing teams to Florian Xhekaj

I like arber. He brings good vibes and I like having him on the team. But he is an extremely average hockey player. There is nothing crazy about taking him out of the lineup.

begging habs fans to be normal about a borderline 6th/7th defenceman getting healthied to give a hot prospect a game

the habs are sitting their 6th defenseman to play a rookie tonight and the habs subreddit is acting like marty benched caufield so condotta could play. no one will ever be normal about this player.

So crazy idea time. EP40 to the habs in a deal similar to what got us Laine. We got somewhere in the vicinity of 27 million in cap space if we don't re-sign Laine. A Demidov extension only kicks in after Gallagher and/or Anderson are off the books. That leaves Matheson, Bolduc, and Dach to sign.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

A recovery night for the Canadiens in every sense from goaltending, to goals, to physicality in this Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal. Also, the Wilde Cards is a look at the myth of poor defence versus the truth of poor netminding. globalnews.ca/news/1153849...

Got a job testing video games after a "you cant fire me I quit" situation at a movie theatre, got a comp sci degree while doing that job then went on to general software QA when I decided I needed an adult salary, then finally leveraged my programming and QA knowledge to start automating software QA

#Habs Florian Xhekaj: "not many guys can say they played their first #NHL game at the Bell Centre - against the Leafs first of all - then to have my brother here with me is truly special and my dad & mom to be here; there's nothing I could ask for more."

God did the habs need this game to go just like this ☑️Above .900 goaltending ☑️ Defended a 3rd period lead ☑️ Florian being even or better +/-, hitting and fighting ☑️ Depth scoring ☑️ Strong second period ☑️ Demidov attempting to make the Calder race interesting Not perfect but exactly what's needed

Hopefully Hutson and Caufield have strong games with Guerin in attendance

Yet another example of how the NHL is reffed by a group of thin skinned, petty diaper babies. This was a breakaway coming right at him. What else could he possibly have been looking at if not the play coming right at him with the very obvious slash

Maybe this is crazy and desperate but what if we just told Dobes the net is his until the next back to back so 3 games and see how he does with that vote of confidence. While we do that pepper Monty with the kinds of shots he struggles with in practice until he can stop them blindfolded

Looking forward to the "Wilson's physicality just takes over games" narrative when in reality he's just a pants shitting baby who the rules apparently don't apply to anymore despite a suspension list a mile long

We are 12 games into the season for Sam. This is beyond "oh, let him work it out." He is currently unusable.

Gretzky still doesn’t get it. No one said you weren’t Canadian. We just asked you to stand up for Canada and say we will never be the 51st state, which for some reason you couldn’t do and still haven’t done. Wayne Gretzky breaks silence on political backlash: ‘I’m a Canadian for life’

A 3 on 3 overtime win is exactly what this team needs to get its confidence back. Hopefully they get it

The memo has gone out among the ref union. Our players don't get calls because they criticized the refs

It's amazing what can happen when you shoot the puck and aren't chasing it around your own zone

@stevedangle20.bsky.social found this at a bookstore in Habs land. I hope it's good. I'll be reading it in your game 7est voice as best I can

I took @bencollins.bsky.social advice and asked chat gpt for a joke about the world right now and got this. My 3 year old's jokes about ka ka are funnier than this

For any unfamiliar with how that story goes, like Bezos, it ends with him getting chained to a rock and his liver eaten over and over by an eagle until freed by Heracles. I'll let you decide if you feel Bezos deserves that or not

First of all, LOL @ these twerps regarding themselves as magnanimous gods gifting the rest of us lowlifes with "advanced technology", and second of all, the fate of Prometheus is not an aspirational one, my dude.

Oof when it rains it pours with injuries. Let's see how close some of those guys who were close in training camp really are

Surprise, surprise.

#Habs have recalled Jared Davidson from Laval.

Upside is that surely it couldn't possibly be worse next game

I know I'm harping a lot on Montembeault but like it's hard to talk about anything else for two of those 3 goals

Montembeault remains one of the most confusing goalies I have ever watched