Waiting On Breakout Seasons

The Canadiens go into the season with a pretty good group of 6 defencemen and top 6 forwards. Yet with Erik Cole (and hopefully Andrei Markov) replacing James Wisniewski and Benoit Pouliot, the question of goalscoring still looms heavy.

Optimists will tell us that the progression of Pacioretty, Eller, Desharnais and others will more than make up for this concern.

Oh, optimism. I came across this article this morning about some Philly fans who are likely more optimistic than those projecting our first rounders (Mike Testwuide? He was tried out by the Habs years ago and underwhelmed...). But the points made still carry a lot of relevance for Habs fans. Another good read.

Welcome to the hardcore Habs fan

Not really a hockey post, but something that I've been thinking about.

I've been watching the stats on this site lately and the numbers of readers have fallen since early October quite a bit. Worried, I started looking at other blogs. Comments were down, posts were dwindling.

So, I'm happy that we at Lions in Winter are being visited by so many truly hardcore Canadiens fans – the people who still care about the team through thick and thin – just like myself and Tobalev.

So thanks for coming. We'd love to hear more of your thoughts and suggestions, that is before the Habs go on a 10-game tear and fan numbers expand to bursting point again...

Go Habs Go.