Author: Alex MacMillan
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Habs Even Series 1-1 With 5-1 Rout of Buffalo in Game 2
Habs Game 2 win evens the series 1-1 in Buffalo. Newhook scored twice. Matheson, Carrier, and Suzuki added the rest. Game 3 is Sunday at the Bell Centre.
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Two Days From “Con Artist” to “Leafs Win!”
Leafs draft lottery reaction: on Monday the league called the Leafs a sham. On Tuesday they won the lottery, and the reset ran within the day.
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Habs Drop Game 1 in Buffalo 4-2 as Sabres’ PP Comes Alive
Habs Game 1 loss to Buffalo 4-2 was the post-Tampa hangover. Doan and Greenway scored; the Sabres’ dead power play scored twice and that was the series.
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Habs Take Game 7 From Tampa Behind Dobeš and Nine Shots
Habs Game 7 win in Tampa rewrote the playoff record book. Nine shots. One Newhook goal. Twenty-eight Dobeš saves. Buffalo next, on Wednesday in Buffalo.
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Johnny Giunta Got Chirped and Couldn’t Take His Medicine
Johnny Giunta made a scene when Blue Jays Today chirped him, but his own record made the outrage hard to take seriously.
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Habs Game 6 Loss vs. Tampa Was the One the System Couldn’t Predict
Habs Game 6 loss to Tampa was the one the system couldn’t predict: 87 minutes of Dobeš perfection ended on a fourth-line bounce. Game 7 Sunday.
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Habs Game 5 Win in Tampa Made the Architecture Argument Final
Habs Game 5 in Tampa flipped the architecture argument: a rookie outdueled Vasilevskiy while Hagel, Kucherov and Point combined for zero points.
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Sixteen Seasons of Reacting to the Same Collapse
Leafs media cycle: the bubble doesn’t burst once, it bursts annually. An entire content economy exists to reinflate it every summer.
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The Leafs Sold a Promise. They Never Built the Team.
Maple Leafs speculative bubble: the Matthews era sold anticipation instead of a product, and the first-round exits kept renewing the subscription.
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Habs Game 4 Loss vs. Tampa Showed What Team Architecture Does Late
Habs Game 4 loss showed what Tampa’s veteran architecture does in the late third — Hagel scored two, Montreal out-hit and out-faceoffed them anyway.
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Habs Game 3 Win vs. Tampa Came From Depth Not Top Line Production
Habs Game 3 win at the Bell Centre came from depth scoring and a defenseman in overtime — not from Slafkovsky, Caufield, or Suzuki at the dot.
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