Daniel Bigras (Scribe)

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• Miah D. 104 articles
• rick derrico 2 articles
• Matt Eichel 119 articles
• Dominic Pampalon 26 articles

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Daniel's Bio

Hi, I'm a known Montreal CANADIENS fanatic. And I weight my words carefuly and when I use fanatic, I use this word to its full definition.

I'm currently running TRICOLORE.CA, a site dedicated to the Canadiens, where we can read bilingual news, articles, get access to interesting information.

My passion about the Canadiens started when I was 9 years old, when no one else in my family followed hockey, but I was lucky enough to develop my passion by reading the newspaper; I was a La Presse paperboy since I was 9.

My earlist memory comes from when I had enough money to buy a black and white television just to watch hockey games! I would spend my saturday evenings watching games and I remeber one of my uncles coming to my room, wondering what I was doing and wondering who were winning:

'The Reds' I told him. He had a weird face when he looked at me; the television was black and white.

My passion comes from within, from the bones. I moved near the Bell Center, to be closer to games and I have the best girlfriend a fanatic like me could wish for.

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by Daniel
13 days ago

Sorry, I have been busy working on my site and studies. I'll be active more often during the season. :-)

by Miah
about 1 month ago

hey!

it has been a while we haven't heard of ur controversial pieces! lol!

Still, wanted to ask, have you heard about gagnon coming to RDS? I know bergeron should be analyst by this season, but apparently francois gagnon is on the field as well.

I thought you might know about this!

keep in touch,
Miah ;)

by Miah
about 1 month ago

no prob Daniel!

by the way, congrats on ur amazing piece!

Miah :)

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Thanks for the welcome Miah, much appreciated!

M, my goodness, another CL. Interesting.

Yep, I live in Montreal. Any help would be much appreciated!

by M
about 1 month ago

'Allo!

Looks like we are on the same page. I am a big hockey history buff (see my trivia series if you'd like proof, plus some fun!) and like to get as many facts as possible. I appreciate that you are doing your research... it's a lot of work, but always makes for a better article. I assume you are in Canada? Not that I can be of much help unless you are in my area, but I have a huge hockey library, and my folks own a used bookshop, in which they gather a great assortment of "stuff". Do you live in Montreal? If so, I may be able to point you in the best direction to find those clippings.

Anyway, good stuff, and welcome to Bleacher Report. I'm the Calgary Flames Community Leader, and if you need anything feel free to ask myself or any other memeber. Then again, you've been here a while, so I'm not implying you don't know the ropes! Just offering what I can.

Take care, go Canadiens, Flames, etc! Most importantly, Go Hockey.

M

PS If you are up for it, check my profile later on. I'm going to be putting out an open discussion piece, and invite your comments and two cents!

by Miah
about 1 month ago

franchement, c'est un honneur d'avoir l'admin en personne de tricolore.ca a bord de bleacher report!

moi c'est Miah, je suis l'autre CL (eik Matt) de Habs community sur BR.

j'etais pas la au moment que tu t es abonne icitte, mais je crois pas que ce soit trop tard pour te souhaiter la bienvenue a bord!

au fait, l'analyse "techniquement c'est le 100eme du canadien" eik les calculs dans plein milieu de l'article, j'avoue ca a faite ma journee! t'es tu sorti des discussions d'avec la LNH en fin de compte?!

enfin ... keep up with the amazing work!
encore une fois, welcome aboard!

Miah :)

by Matt
about 1 month ago

Yeah that's what I meant. Ha, keep up the good job.

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Thanks Matt. You mean you agree that it's not, right? ;-)

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Tyler, as I said, I was THERE, with my girlfriend and my DOG walking amongst the fans. It was just a few drunk losers who made some noise, but it wasn't as bad as the media made it believe. It was a propaganda.

Vandalism and riot are TWO different words.

by Matt
about 1 month ago

Daniel, good article on the upcoming season not being the Habs 100th. Really sparking some discussion. Keep up the good stuff. I agree with you that this season coming up is there 100th.

by Tyler
about 1 month ago

"Supposed Riot", what are you talking about, Cars were on FIRE

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

What riot? A few losers making some noise is a riot in Ontario? Not here. :-)

I was walking my dog with my girlfriend during that supposedly riot. It was much exagerated in order to make sure it didn't happen again. Nothing else.

The quiet revolution is an historical fact that Wikipedia will be glad to teach you.

Our second round was two rounds more than some other teams'. ;-)

by Tyler
about 1 month ago

'Quiet' revolution, just like that riot after the Habs one in the first round this year, Btw how'd that second round go.

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Dude, I don't care if it's cow shit, bull shit, horse shit, but that's what we, french canadians, believe. He was our first real hero, he's one of the main reason why we had a 'quiet' revolution in the 60s.

Richard, to us, when english canadians were controlling our province in every shape or form for over 100 years, is more important than Gretzky or Orr.

Hence the reference to Martin Luther King. Martin helped waking up the african american nation, well, to us, Richard did it too in a major way. He was a hockey player, and also a writer. He was our hero.

If you don't know about french canadian history, don't make a fool of yourself on my profile. As far as I'm concerned, I'm entitled to my own opinion on my frigging own profile, no?

by Tyler
about 1 month ago

Hell No! you didn't just compare Maurice Richard to Martin Luther King Jr. that is complete bull shit!!

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Maurice Richard broke the wall between anglophones and francophones, between the rich and the poor. Because of him, the Montreal forum's fence, physical fence, that prevented the anglophones and francophones, the rich and the poor to mingle.

Maurice Richard did more to a country, to the league than whatever Gretzky or Orr did. He woke up an entire nation, he brought us pride, honor, strength. He MADE the historical team that the Montreal Canadiens is today.

Maurice Richard is to Montreal a mix between Babe Ruth and Martin Luther King.

Gretzky betrayed Canada in many ways. Orr, whatever, he was a great player, but nothing else.

Richard put Hockey on the map. He created feuds between cities. He forced the league to make changes. He was able to accomplish all his records without any rules, when hockey was a savage thing. Many of his records were not broken for dozen and dozen of years, eventhough players became better physically.

If I had to build a team around a captain, I would build it around Richard ANY DAY before I would build it around Gretzky or Orr.

by Tyler
about 1 month ago

Maurice Richard, over Orr and Gretzky, are you on crack

by Alan
about 1 month ago

it seems we're both confusing each other. you are absolutely right about what you just said, but it is definitely their 100th year. so as you said, it would be their 100th anniversary season.

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

You seem to be confusing the two things, like many. 2009 is the centennial, nobody is disputing that.

2006-2007 was their 40th year anniversary season, not their 40th season.

I don't care if a few media made that mistake, but most of them did not and said that 2006-2007 was their 40th year anniversary season, not their 40th season.

Listen, it's just laziness to say that it's the 100th season. People are mixing year and season, it's plain and simple.

No mathematicians, programmers, database owners will count 2004-2005. Just PHYSICALLY count each season and let me know what's your count. Just go on hockeydb.com and count the seasons.

List all the seasons recorded in a database and COUNT every season, you will reach 99 like it should be.

Saying that we should count something that does not exist is a subjective argument, nothing else. The objective argument, the fact is that Montreal played 98 seasons and will start their 99th season on October 10 2008.

Saying that 2008-2009 will be their 100th season is pure laziness.

by Alan
about 1 month ago

Yes, I am counting that season, because the Canadians are celebrating 100 years of existence. Every team has counted the lockout season. The Flyers celebrated their 40th season in 2007, and their first season was 1967-68, so they clearly count the lockout season. Even if there is a lockout, the team still exists, and they're still "trying" to make money (even though there's no revenue), so it still counts.

by Daniel
about 1 month ago

Alan, you are counting the 2004-2005 season that was cancelled.

Even the latest Montreal Canadiens magazine is referring to the 2007-2008 season as the 98th.

I can count. ;-)

by Alan
about 1 month ago

Daniel, I think you need to check your math again on your 100th season. If 1909-1910 was their first season, then 2008-2009 will indeed be their 100th season.

by Daniel
2 months ago

Hehehe.. Thanks Rick for the support! I hope my latest article is not too long. ;-)

It's ok to disagree. I'm not much of a F1 fan anyway.

by rick
2 months ago

Just read your shortlist, I agree with everything you chose, especially the Gretzky or Orr question.
But I will disagree with your Senna choice. I will become your fan as soon as I figure out how :P

by Daniel
2 months ago

Voilà, c'est fait. ;-)

by Dominic
2 months ago

Bienvenue Dan!

J'ai bien hâte de lire tes article.

Dom

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