HIT THE POST WITH CJAD 800'S RICK MOFFAT, VOICE OF THE ALS & HABS

Wonder if the Canadiens saw the home-made banner in the Igloo that made a play on the street-lamp pennants hanging outside the Igloo? Those pennants show the closeup of a Penguin's face, with the words "Defy ordinary." The Penguins' fan poster? "Defy Injury."

Was Coach Trestman playing mind-games with the Riders? "Derrick Durant", botching the first name of the young QB star his defense has to contend with, during Coach's official Grey Cup news conference. Riderville will be insisting this is arrogant slight from an Easterner. I call it the slightest of slights...Trestman's not one to knowingly insult his opponents.

Some Habs fans are worried now that $30-Million in salary was lost to injury for the Pittsburgh game. You realize that means when the Penguins were on the powerplay, they pretty much had more dollars on the ice than the Habs had in their entire lineup?

Am I sorry to see Guillaume go? Yes only because every parent has moments they regret dealing with their "problem child" but at a certain point, that "child" becomes a "problem adult" and that's where Guillaume was headed, if not already there.

Benoit Pouliot? Maybe he's not the "Problem Child" but the "Problem Nephew" who'll straighten out for Uncle Jacques.

When I'm Commissioner of the CFL: noone holds back on voting for Ben Cahoon as Outstanding Canadian just cuz his passport says "American." He's an honourary Montrealer for life and deserves the award whether this is sendoff season or not.

Don't you love that Stanley Cup heroes Sidney Crosby and Maxime Talbot tell me their first memories of Stanley are all about '93!?

Aren't you sorry I asked JT Wyman why he shakes baby powder onto the end of his stick? "You don't want your hands getting too sticky on the knob" he said with a straight face. Maybe he was just setting me up for the stupidest answer to one of my stupidest questions yet.

Did you hear Murray Wilson's answer when I asked him about David Desharnais arriving in a limo for his NHL debut? "Steve Shutt used to arrive at the Forum in his Bentley."

Ready for me, Calgary? Can't wait to stir it up with those Rider-lovin', global-warming denyin', watermelon-heads. Truth is, Mom's a prairie girl from Tomkins, Saskatchewan, so I always feel a special connection at prairie sunset, especially after the Als have stomped all over the Riders at Taylor Field.

My best memory from Grey Cup 2000 in Calgary? Winning all the physical battles against reciever Tyree Davis for position in front of the sideline heater.