The Philadelphia Flyers will be coming to town tomorrow to meet the Canadiens, after finishing off the Washington Capitals in a series that also went to seven games. It might've been fun to watch Alexander Ovechkin play, but I can't say I'm not relieved the Habs won't be up against him. Also, the Canadiens are glad to have Saku Koivu back and Vincent Damphousse goes so far as to say the Finn's poor French doesn't really matter, in the grand scheme of things.

But today's hockey news is more about Monday night's riots than about the game itself. Police, who were present and expecting some amount of trouble, were surprised at the scale of the violence unleashed after what was, after all, just a quarter-final victory. Mayor Tremblay says the predictable things and sociologists ponder the phenomenon. posted at 08:26