Habs Blue Line Gets The Clip-Board Treatment

Montreal’s defense gets a full report-card cleanup, which usually means nobody is getting a free pass and a few names are about to get dragged into the daylight. The blue line has been a monthly suspense novel in this market, and the grading here reads like a front-office reality check more than a pep talk. For a team that lives and dies on how its back end holds up, the details matter a lot more than the letter grade.