I wasn’t even going to touch the subject until I saw the “Montreal will love you forever, you will always be 13 to us” for Mike Cammalleri on that blog.

You’re a fan of a team where because he wasn’t on the level of the likes of Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Guy Lafleur, Doug Harvey, Ken Dryden, Patrick Roy, Larry Robinson, (I could stop there and impress you but there’s still TEN more retired numbers I haven’t touched), Saku Koivu will never be seen as the only #11 that matters in an official sense. Scott Gomez is wearing his number less than two years later, doing absolutely nothing with it while raking in more money than Koivu was ever given by the team he defined his career with.

Not saying Koivu is a hall of famer, he’s not. But that’s a guy that meant a billion times more to the Habs history than Mike Cammalleri.

Cammalleri is a second line producer, who was on your team for two and a half years. That is not a timeless player on any franchise. He’s a decent player, but when we’re talking about the Montreal Canadiens? He’s not the guy you write a chapter of a team history book about, rather the one you check the glossary for after because you swear you haven’t seen a single mention.

All I’m saying is, learn the history if you’re going to speak it. This has been an actual letter, though to a hockey “fan”, not a player.

Signed,

Some guy