Les Canadiens de Montreal: A Front for Organized Crime?

Look, it's 3:45 AM here in Dallas, and some potentially heavy shit just broke. I'm not gonna call Snizza and wake his ass up, and I'm sure as hell not gonna call Matty at 4:45 AM Eastern, even though he's probably awake already, cleaning some bran mustard-lookin' baby doots off the wall.

Canadian TV's illiterate insider Jacques Demers reported a couple hours ago that there would be law enforcement officials waiting to arrest members of the Montreal Canadiens when their plan landed en route from Pittsbugh early this morning.

Hearing it second-hand, may be a joke, I thought. Like when that raisin sac Tommy Salo let in that horrendous goal off his noggin against Belarus -- daahhh, I crapped my pants! -- and the Swedish sports daily ran photos of the whole team under the heading "TRAITORS." But no. Apparently there is some fire beneath this-here smoke.

So what have we? Russian mob ties, perhaps?

At this point it's impossible to tell for sure. It may be a tempest in a teapot. However, it may be the biggest scandal to hit the NHL since Alan Eagleson. And in the Habs' centennial season -- already well on its way to being a historic catastrophe -- the stakes are high enough that a Black Sox-caliber disaster is possible.

But again, it could be nothing whatsoever. It's just that it's 3:45 AM... well, 3:50 now... and I got no one to tell.

P.S. - Mike Richards = awesome
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