Author: Darren Pena

Avid beer trailblazer. Friendly student. Tv geek. Coffee junkie. Total writer. Hipster-friendly internet practitioner. Pop culture fanatic.

Kaiden Guhle: meteoric rise explained

When Kaiden Guhle scored his first goal in prep camp on September 29, the young defenseman blinked as he ran to the Winnipeg Jets bench. The Montreal Canadiens’ arrogant and overconfident pick for the 2020 first round mocked one person

Another win for the Phoenix

The Sherbrooke Phoenix continued their excellent start to the 2022-2023 season by defeating Baie-Comeau Drakkar 6-2 at the Palais des Sports LĂ©opold-Drolet on Sunday. This is the sixth win in seven games since hostilities began in the Quebec Major Junior

PGA: Cantlay dominates, Hadwin in top 10

America’s Patrick Cantlay hit a whopping 60 in the third round of Saturday’s Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, giving him a lead with South Korea’s Tom Kim. Cantlay’s recipe for taking 11 shots off par: Score 11 birdies and

Namestnikov rains hats in Tampa

Russia forward Vladislav Namestnikov put on an unexpected four-point performance against the Florida Panthers in Tampa Saturday, scoring a hat-trick in the 5-2 win over the Lightning. Namestnikov came within a whisker of a rare feat of a natural hat-trick

“CH has no identity”

The Montreal Canadiens have entered a new era under the leadership of Kent Hughes. This changing of the guard rhymes with a new culture and a new identity. Watch coach Joël Bouchard analyze the performances of the Bleu Blanc Rouge

Positions to win with the Rouge et Noir

Like the Montreal Alouettes earlier this season, the Ottawa Redblacks went through a coaching change in 2022. The team from the Canadian capital still has chances to reach the playoffs, even if the 3-11 record is not very good. That

Movement in sight for CH

Days before the season begins, it seems inevitable that the Montreal Canadiens will make at least one trade. With Joel Edmundson still struggling with an injury, head coach Martin St-Louis has only three veterans available defensively: Mike Matheson, David Savard

What Caufield and Gallagher did away from the cameras

On Thursday afternoon, before the Canadians-Senators game in Gander, Newfoundland, I hosted a question-and-answer session with the Senators’ Brendan Gallagher, Cole Caufield, and Nick Holden and Jacob Bernard-Docker at Center Ice. A total of eight primary and secondary school children