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The long-suffering Habs fan is back again

After winning five games in a row, the Montreal Canadiens had a miserable week culminating in a drubbing to the struggling Edmonton Oilers and all-universe centre Connor McDavid.

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Our own all-universe player, goaltender Carey Price, was pulled in the second period. The battle of the all-universes being won by the Oilers’ McDavid.

What to make of this reversal of fortune?

Alexander Galchenyuk is in the doghouse (again). Learned sports hockey pundits anticipate a parting of ways with the Canadiens for Galchenyuk.

Price will have bad games but in order to make the playoffs they’ll have to be few and far between.

The silence is deafening from the Canadiens management. Is it time for a rebuild, to throw in the towel or to hang in there? Make a move, but what move?

Galchenyuk’s value is disappearing faster than David Copperfield’s Statue of Liberty.

The Habs’ fans will have to be patient and grind their gums a bit more as GM Marc Bergevin plots in silence in the sub-basements of the Bell Centre.