joe-malone Stories - Habs Eyes On The Prize
It's Official: Bulldogs to host Marlies at Yvor Wynne
The Hamilon Bulldogs (AHL) made a leaked story by local papers official Tuesday, by announcing that the team will host the Toronto Marlies in an outdoor game at Hamilton's Yvor Wynne Stadium. The game is set to be played on January 21, 2012. Season ticket holders and flex ticket holders get first...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Eras
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
Baker's Dozen of Strange and Amazing Hockey Records and Distinct Achievements
Everyone likes lists and records, and the notion came to me to combine the two yesterday. I started thinking not only of unbreakable records, but unique ones as well, especially those distinct enough that they define certain players. Glenn Hall - The Iron Man Goalie Starting in 1955-56 with...
1917-18 Malone Paces Canadiens In NHL Launch
It was the Montreal Canadiens ninth season of existance, and the NHL as we know it, was about to be born.The Canadiens were not yet known as "the Habs", "Les Glorieux" or "Le Tricolore", and the term "Flying Frenchman" was only beginning to spread. In fact, the Canadiens were just another...
1918-19 The Cup That Almost Was
The NHL began its second season with the three franchises who survived the hard times of the 1917-18 campaign: The Montreal Canadiens, the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Arenas.The new season would become another turbulent trial for the Canadiens and the NHL, and this one would end like quite no...
1919-20 Newsy And Joe Malone Battle It Out
Canadiens fans were excited and relieved to hear the announcement that a new hockey arena was being built at the corners of Mount Royal and Saint Urbain, and would be ready in the coming season. With the fire that destroyed the Jubilee occuring in April, a month after the previous season had ended,...
1920-21 Aging Canadiens Fall Short
As the 1920-21 NHL season was on the horizon, there was much wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes for the Canadiens and the league's three other clubs. The Flying Frenchman had missed going all the way to the Stanley Cup final in 1920, and with a steady lineup filled with experienced...
1922-23 The Newsy Era Ends, A New One Begins
Two shocking blockbuster trades, with opposite results, highlighted the Canadiens 1922-23 season.On November 3, Canadiens owner Jos Cattarinich announced to much consternation and fan outcry, that the Canadiens had traded star Newsy Lalonde's contract to the Saskatoon Crescents of the Western...
1923-24 With Morenz Comes A Second Cup
After a span of several seasons in which the Canadiens roster saw hardly any changes, a youth movement of sorts, begun in 1922, had a dramatic effect on the team's fortunes for the 1923-24 campaign. The addition of younger and highly skilled talent, mixed in with the core of savvy veterans that...
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