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SEAN GORDON From Friday's Globe and Mail MONTREAL — It's an ironic and somewhat startling move that reveals much about this coach: a calculated decision to do away with the role he personified during a stellar 19-year playing career. As the Montreal Canadiens kick off their 100th season, Guy Carbonneau is electing not to ice a line of specialized checking forwards. Instead, he will throw his lot in with a rotation of three offensive lines that will share more or less equal slices of ice time, and an aggressive, physical "energy" line that will likely play only sparingly. "The game has changed, styles have changed," said Carbonneau, past winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the NHL's best defensive forward and a prototypical shutdown centre in his heyday. "It gives us more options to not have a strictly defensive line … it... [read full story]
