from Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette,
On to the serious stuff. Montreal Canadiens fans need to calm the heck down. I mean, you guys are behaving like Leafs fans.
Check the date. It’s late October. In late October/early November, there are important games being played … by major-league baseball players. Hockey games at this time of year are fun to watch, but they don’t mean squat.
How often have Toronto hockey fans, including all those Leafs fans who work for the Toronto hockey-broadcast clique, started planning the parade route down Yonge St. after the first week of the season? Thankfully, even the delusional Leafs boosters can’t engage in that kind of behaviour this year given Toronto’s woeful start and, as an aside, I have greatly enjoyed coaching legend Mike Babcock’s grumpy comments this week.
But the point is that’s how fans do it in T.O. and it’s not how we’re supposed to do things here in the city’s that home to the most winning hockey team in the history of the sport. We don’t celebrate until we have something to celebrate and, Earth to the Habs Nation, there is absolutely nothing to celebrate after seven games.
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