Chinese Canadian Leah Lum signed with the Montreal team of the PWHL, the new professional women’s hockey league. She plays both forward and defense. For Montreal she plays as a defender. She scored her first goal and point of the season against New York.
Category: Sports
Leylah Fernandez wins her match to lead Canada to its first-ever Billie Jean King Cup win
Montreal born Leylah Fernandez helped Canada win its first ever Billie Jean King cup by beating Italy in the finals.
Philip Kim wins Pan Am gold in breaking
Breaking was added as a sport at the Pan Am games for the first time and Asian Canadian Philip Kim (from Vancouver) won gold and qualified for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Nick Suzuki is now the captain of the Montreal Canadiens
Nick Suzuki has officially become the 31st captain of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. He’s a young player the Habs traded for who has been on the rise the past few seasons. He was one of the players rumored to be named captain with teammates and former teammates claiming he was ready even at his young age of 23. He recently signed an 8 year deal and is currently the Habs first line center. He looks like he has the potential to improve a lot in the next few years.
Habs Tonight interviews John Lu
Originally from Winnipeg, John Lu is currently a TSN sports journalist who covers the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. The youtube channel Habs Tonight interviewed him recently and got his thoughts on this season’s Canadiens team, which is having perhaps its worst season in decades after going to the Stanley Cup finals last season. Although the team just started their longest winning streak this season so far under their new head coach after previously having not won two games in a row.
Montreal born Canadian tennis player Leylah Fernandez vs Emma Raducanu in the 2021 US Open Women’s Final
It’s been a long time since I actively followed tennis so it was a surprise to me to find out that the 2021 US Open Women’s final features Leylah Fernandez. a Montreal born Canadian player who is half Filipino half Ecuadorian. She hits leftie with a two handed backhand. Her opponent is Emma Raducanu, a Toronto born British player who is half Chinese, half Romanian. In addition, they are both really young and almost the same age with their birthdays only about a couple months apart (Leyla just turned 19 while Emma will turn 19 in November). The final will take place on Saturday, 4pm EST.
Nick Suzuki helps the Montreal Canadiens to reach the NHL Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1993
The Montreal Canadiens have wrecked predictions again by defeating the Las Vegas Golden Knights in six games. The young guns including Nick Suzuki were instrumental in the win. Suzuki was drafted by the Golden Knights before being traded to the Canadiens. He had 4 assists and an empty net goal in the series to help the Canadiens advance to the Stanley Cup finals. Game 6 was probably his best in this series.
Nick Suzuki helps propel the Montreal Canadiens to the third round of the NHL playoffs
I’ve posted briefly about Nick Suzuki before. He’s a promising young center for the Montreal Canadiens (aka Habs) who has continued to prove himself to be a clutch player in his second playoffs. He’s participated in key goals in playoffs series against the heavily favored Toronto Maple Leafs and then the favored Winnipeg Jets. Having defeated both those teams, now the Montreal Canadiens are one of the final four teams remaining in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, something no hockey expert had predicted.
In the first round against the Maple Leafs, The Habs played poorly at the beginning and ended up being down 3-1 in the series after 4 games. Luckily they came out strong in game 5 against the Maple Leafs but blew a 3-0 lead as the Leafs managed to tie it and force overtime. With less than a minute into overtime, Suzuki’s linemate, rookie Cole Caufield made a great interception at their defensive blue line that led to a 2 on 0. The give and go between the two resulted in Suzuki’s overtime game winner. This was the start of the comeback for the Habs.
Film Beats (from the East) 