Author: Robert Lefebvre

Canadiens Winning Ugly A Habit To Discard

By Robert Lefebvre | Mar 28th 2020 | 4 min read |

Ten games into the 2008-09 season, and the Montreal Canadiens are in first place in their division, near the league’s best in goals scored and allow...

Cornwall Arena Where Rocket Scored His First Canadiens' Goal About To Meet The Wrecking Ball

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 17th 2019 | 9 min read |

It is a little known fact, a part of local lore in my hometown that the great Maurice “Rocket” Richard scored his first ever goal in a Can...

Subban's Rookie Hat Trick a Neat Feat, But Newsy's Mark Near Impossible to Beat

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 17th 2019 | 22 min read |

Statisticians, team historians and journalist were sent scrambling Sunday evening, searching for the last time a Canadien rookie defensemen notched a ...

Dissecting The Gomez Conundrum

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 16th 2019 | 13 min read |

Hi folks! This is a rare venture for me back onto the blog. I kind of figured, knowing myself, that at some point or another I would be compelled to a...

What Came First, the Canadiens, or the Overzealous Montreal Media?

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 16th 2019 | 10 min read |

I’m not sure if the world’s greatest scientists have ever concluded whether the chicken came before the egg, but months ago, while researc...

The Rocket Richard Riot: 55 Years Later

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 16th 2019 | 19 min read |

Robert L Note: Sometime in April 2008, Buffalo sports writer and NFL expert Larry Felsner (Pro Football Hall Of Fame writer) tackled the subject of th...

Merry Christmas and Habby Holidays from Eyes On The Prize

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 4 min read |

It has been an eventful year for the Canadiens and for this site in many ways and I’d like to wish EOTP readers and contributors all the best du...

Looking Out Of Place? Gui In A Minny Uni!

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 4 min read |

The Minnesota Wild have a great hockey jersey, I think, and I was curious just to see what Guillaume Latendresse would look like in it. Not all that b...

The Canadiens At The Movies

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 30 min read |

A wonderful thing about the Montreal Canadiens centennial is that as part of the celebrations, there continues to be more archival footage of the team...

"The Man Who Changed The Face Of Hockey" - An Interview With Author Denault

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 18 min read |

I’ve never had the privelege of personally meeting “Jacques Plante: The Man Who Changed The Face Of Hockey” author Todd Denault, but...