The year 1995 gave us It’s raining roses on Manhattan…
However, if the same gang wants to make a new feature film for 2025, I could suggest the following title: It’s raining podcasts in Montreal.
Because podcasts French-speaking people who talk about hockey, there are dozens and dozens of them in Quebec: Process, Stanley25, Radar, Sortie de zone, La Poche bleue, Bon match, TLSH hockey, The Sick Podcast(s), Telement hockey, On jase , Drette su’l tape, Hockey woman, The next generation, The puck, The glorious…
And so on!
So podcasts in general, who don’t talk about hockey in the first place, you can imagine how many there are!
The very last one to have seen the light of day, it is hosted by my former boss at BPM Sports, Yves Bombardier, and he deals with real estate. His name: In my cabin.
Yves and his son Pierre-Alexis will receive a Quebec public figure per week to talk about real estate with she/him.
The guest of the first episode (released just a few hours ago) is Jean-Charles Lajoie, former employee – but above all a long-time friend – of Yves Bombardier.
Jean-Charles talks about his past as a tenant, but also about his current life as an owner and investor.
But at the very end of baladoJean-Charles confided a little scoop : on January 13 he will launch an online platform on which he will host a balado daily. It is a project that he has been developing since 2010 and that he will launch with the aim of bringing together a community that shares the same interests as him.
“I really want to create a community. You don’t take the guy out of the guy. Become a member of the community of friends […] The initiated, the regulars, who still talk to me about how the Earth stopped rotating at 3:00 a.m. The antenna was placed at 91.9 […] People tell me “at 3 a.m., we turned up the sound, then we listened to your editorial.” This is exactly what we are going to reproduce. » – Jean-Charles Lajoie
He says he is aware of the fact that if one day he loses his microphone on TV – he lost his microphone on the radio a little over a year ago – the digital will then possibly be its last defense. The fate of TVs traditional Quebecois is far from being assured medium/long term and Jean-Charles knows it.
According to the main interested party, the commercial partners of the project that he will bring into the world are numerous and solid, but…
Will nostalgic fans be there and, above all, will they be delighted by the first episodes of Jean-Charles’ new project? Only time will tell.
Prolongation
The Canadian suffered two other defeats this weekend, which makes him 16 in 24 matches since the start of the season. No other team has suffered more than him in 2024-25…
I could talk about the brilliance of Caufield, the setbacks of Primeau or the difficulties of Dach, Matheson and Newhook…
But I rather want to use these few lines to remind you that a system man-to-man in your zone, it doesn’t work against the best players in the world.
A system man to man in the defensive zone, it amounts to playing the police and the thief, 1 v. 1, facing one of the best thief in the world.
When you win, you have avoided the worst and when you lose, you put your team in trouble.
The guy you’re facing is almost always fast, agile, creative… has good hands… and an incredible ability to change direction. He knows how to hide his intentions.
If you lose, it doesn’t matter whether or not he is carrying the puck at that moment, it gives the other team a surplus. 3 v. 2… 2 v. 1… 1 v. 0…
And by granting lots of excess numbers – because sooner or later, you won’t be able to win 100% of your 1v duels. 1 -, you end up allowing goals. Especially when your goalkeeper is called Cayden Primeau…
You have no coverage… no buffer… no margin for error…
It is no coincidence that almost no one in the Bettman circuit uses a system man to man in defensive territory. It doesn’t forgive!
When will there be a defensive system more adapted to the league in which you play? It may work in peewee, man-to-man, but it obviously doesn’t work in the NHL.
What’s next?
The CH will play its next five games at the Bell Centre.
Either he puts himself back in front of his supporters and their energy, or he sinks very deep.
Afterwards, the Canadian will play eight of his next 10 games on the road, where he has only won three of the 12 games he has played in 2024-25. Ouch !
It’s not just Kirby Dach who needs love right now…
