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MONTREAL - When colleague Dave Stubbs asked me if I wanted to celebrate another record-breaking and award-winning season at Habs Inside/ Out, he didn't tell me he was inviting thousands of our closest friends to share the occasion.On Thursday night, I'll be joining Stubbs, Mike Boone and Kevin Mio at Brasserie Le Manoir in Pointe Claire and we've agreed to share the evening with the Canadiens' fans whose participation has helped make the website a success.Before you make plans to join us, there are some things you should know.
For starters, you should leave a message indicating that you will be on hand so that the good folks at Le Manoir can set aside some space for us. You can leave your RSVP on the HIO website or you can email Mr. Stubbs.
You should also be aware that the same rules of civility that should be followed on the website are in force Thursday night. That means no personal attacks and please watch your language.
That latter caution is important because we want members of the fairer sex to feel welcome as this gathering. I should add a note for any HIO groupies -at last glance, three of us were happily married but Mike Boone is available and, some would suggest, he's even desperate.
If you have any questions, please try to make them reasonable. This is not talk radio.
We can tell you now that the Canadiens are not going to be able to trade Jimmy Bonneau, the rights to David Fischer and a sixth-round draft choice in 2014 to Tampa Bay for Vinnie Lecavalier.
We can't tell you what goes through Pierre Gauthier's mind, but we can tell you that you have to wait a few years to learn how good -or bad -the Jaroslav Halak trade was.
Some of us are old enough to describe a Stanley Cup parade, but we can't tell you when we'll get to see another one.
We can offer opinions on free agents Dominic Moore, Glen Metropolit and Marc-Andre Bergeron, but none of us is empowered to act on those opinions.
This gathering will be in a brasserie and we encourage you to enjoy yourselves, but we also offer the following advice -don't drink and drive and, if you do drink, take a cab, a bus or bring along a designated driver.
Finally, don't forget to tip your server. The HIO crew has a reputation for generosity and we don't want to be embarrassed.
Fehr not! The NHL Players' Association is meeting this week and one of the items on the agenda is trying to convince Donald Fehr to take the job as executive director.
He spent 26 years running the baseball players union and he has two strikes in my book. His opposition to drug testing led to the sport's biggest scandal and his hard-nosed bargaining led to a strike in 1994 which led to the cancellation of the World Series.
Fans might remember that was the year the Expos had the best team in baseball but were deprived of a chance to prove it.
phickey@thegazette.canwest.com
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