Author: Robert Lefebvre

Curios From The Canadiens First Game And Season

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 1 min read |

This is page 2 from La Patrie on January 5, 1910. It contains among other things, an ad for that night’s Canadiens debut., an article concerning...

How the 30 NHL Coaches Rank in Experience Terms

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 5 min read |

If you have followed NHL hockey for any length of time, surely along the way you have asked the question, what makes for a great NHL coach? It is a qu...

The Gainey Regime 2003-04: Year One - An Organizational Recap and Look Back on 2002-03

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 7 min read |

June 3, 2003 – Canadiens named Bob Gainey VP and General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens. Gainey inherits the roster from the previous season ...

The Gainey Regime 2009-10: Year Six - A Recap of Moves Made from the Seven Previous Seasons

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 10 min read |

2008-09 final roster: 33 players *Andrei Markov, Alex Kovalev, Robert Lang, *Andrei Kostitsyn, Saku Koivu, *Tomas Plekanec, Alex Tanguay, *Roman Hamrl...

Stanley Cup images from 100 seasons

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 3 min read |

Photographs of proud players and teams posing with the Stanley Cup is a tradition as old as the trophy itself. It began in 1893, when a silver bowl wa...

For Many Like Adam Roach, Hockey Is Simply Act One

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 2 min read |

One of the greatest things about the game of hockey often are the stories told that come from playing the game. NHL oldtimers attest that after retire...

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

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 17 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...

Scotty Bowman, And The Undoing Of The Canadiens Dynasty

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 2 min read |

Thirty years ago today, on May 21, 1979, the Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 4-1 to claim their 22nd Stanley Cup. Few knew on that day, that it wo...

Canadiens Organization Hosts The Society For International Hockey Research

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 3 min read |

I will subtitle this piece, “Brushes with Hab – ness, media – ness, and wonderful day of learning about people involved in the game ...

Jacques Demers Plays Habs GM, Picks Dream team

By Robert Lefebvre | Feb 15th 2019 | 3 min read |

At RDS this past week, former coach Jacques Demers pronounced his thoughts on how he’d handle the Canadiens 10 free agents and the manner in whi...