3P 00:30:
Lines all messed up
3P 1:30:
Stewart and Kostopoulos?
3P 3:00:
Not a great night for the Captain. Tired
3P Break.:
Very disillusioning
3P 4:15:
Icing, with the Lapierre line on
3P 5:00:
max-Pac with no helmet, busting his butt
3P 6:13:
No defence. None. Price in a shooting gallery
3P 7:18:
Now Frankie is banged up
3P Break.:
Ugly game. Neither team belongs in the postseason.
2P 9:00:
This must be killing Carbo
2P 10:00:
Total chaos in the Canadiens' end
3P 12:42:
Gorges broke his stick.
Gonchar didn't. 5-4
Absurd
3P 13:29:
HE IS ON FIRE!!!!!!
Pleks, from Max-Pac
4-4
3P Break.:
Schneider is minus-4. Maybe they've just burned him out a bit. He was great last night.
3P 14:04:
The Pleks line is carrying the team
3P 15:00:
Chipchura cannot play for this team!
3P 16:47:
It AIN'T OVER!!
AK46
4-3
3P 17:00:
Schneider is playing like a very old defenceman who's had too many minutes. Saku and D'Ag were horrible also.
4-2
2P 18:00:
Momentum totally with Pittsburgh. What a collapse
2P 19:00:
Schneider is minus-3
2P 19:31:
It started with a D'Agostini giveaway. Horrible
3-2
ING Direct guy:
Have you ever seen someone dressed like that at a minor hockey game?
2P 20:00:
If the Canadiens play their game ...
Senators:
Getting smoked at home by Vancouver
Mike Richards:
Six shorthanded goals this season.
JT on the second:
-Does every NHL player lie on his stats? Because if Higgins is really six feet tall and two hundred pounds, he's the world's weakest six-footer. I'll bet he couldn't even ring the bell at the fair.
-Hmmm...two games without Kovalev on their line for Plekanec and Kostitsyn. Plekanec, two goals. Kostitsyn three points. I'm just sayin'...
-Price with another soul-sucking goal against. I guess I shouldn't be surprised the shot-tipper was Satan, right?
-I wonder what kind of gum Carbo chews during the game, and if it has any crack in it?
-Mathieu "The Bomb" Schneider. Honestly, if the Habs need a seventh next year, and if he'll play for Breezer's salary...
-Okay, look, Carbo. I like Stewie and the Bomb and Lappy as much as anyone. But they CANNOT be out there with thirty seconds to go on a powerplay. I don't care how much you've used the top guys...it's like putting Larry the Cable Guy on stage at La Scala to sing an aria.
-Could the Habs finally be coming to life? Tomorrow is "wear your team jersey to work day" in honour of Hockey Day in Canada. Please, don't let me be embarrassed to wear the bleu-blanc-rouge. Please?
1P 00:40:
Where did Brunet get the idea that Chipchura was a good faceoff man?
2P 00:50:
Schneider makes a great first pass
2P 2;00:
Magic by Koivu line
2P Break:
Canadiens have two goals on 10 shots. Very strange game.
2P 3:40:
Kostopoulos and Stewart on the PP?
2P 4:56:
That's what they got him for! And the PP continues.
2-2
2P 5:10:
I don't know about D'Ag on the PP. Here's a 5-on-3
2P 6:50:
What a play by AK46 to Pleks to Max-Pac
2P 8:00:
BGL, Chipchura ... what's on the other channel?
2P 8:29:
Max had time. Didn't use it.
2P Break:
Is it me or does this game suck? Shots are 15-6.
2P 9:45:
Weak PP. No shots. Six on the game
2P Break:
Once again, this team can't stand prosperity.
2P 12:35:
Tired forwards, D backing in and Satan redirects a point shot
2-1
2P 13:38:
Alright, AK!!! What a pass
1-1
2P 15:00:
Through 25 minutes, four shots.
2P 15;30:
If Crosby had a finisher ...
2P 16:00:
What a contrast to last night, for both teams
1P 16:40:
Chipchura an NHLer? I'm far from convinced
1P 17:40:
Gee, Gill is soft for his size
1P 18:50:
Nice shot by AK46
2P 19:40:
Frankie is good for at least one blaster like that per game
Schneider's ice time:
Almost nine minutes. Crazy. Who was yelling in the room behind Bouillon
2P 20:00:
Lucky it's a one-goal game. We'll see if the boys have anything in the tank at the end of this brutal road trip.
Joël Bouchard says ...:
Canadiens have to e faster to the puck. Demers points out Ryan Malone's 20th tonight for Tampa. He might have saved Therrien's job.
Florida and Buffalo:
Both losing 1-0
Faceoffs:
Canadiens were 15-5 but didn't get the one they needed on the PP.
JT on the first:
-I wish the Habs still had the luxury of sending their hardworking vets to Florida for a week before the playoffs start. Hammer looks like he could use some fun in the sun. Or at least a shot of vitamin D. Or a shot.
-Crosby would be absolutely terrifying if he had a regular linemate of the quality of Nicklas Backstrom. How has this team, with the examples of Tampa and Ottawa before it, managed to lock itself into a couple of great stars and no supporting cast?
-Speaking of Crosby, you know that Timbits commercial, the one where the Crosby bus breaks down and he plays hockey on the pond with the kids while he's waiting for it to be fixed? I'm probably the only person in the world who wishes the kid would say, "NO, you can't play, you whiny baby!"
-I figure Laraque must make about a hundred grand per punch. Nice work if you can get it, Code or not. I weep to think he's with this team for thirty punches after this season.
-Hungry for the win? The Pens look like a fat guy at the Olive Garden, Habs like Ghandi protesting British rule.
-Running tally for Komisarek's continued services now standing at around 2.8 million per year. Seriously, right now, that's very fair.
-Bloody airlines. They lost the Habs' forecheck, skating legs and heart on the flight from Washington.
-Lost faceoffs kill this team. Well...among other things. They're like cats that way.
-Wow...I'd forgotten what a real bomb from the point looked like until Schneider came along. Is it too early to get hopeful when the Habs have a PP again?
-What's happened to Lapierre? He's like a girl who gets into fantastic shape for her wedding and rocks the pictures. Then, at her first anniversary she's got pimples and greasy hair and she's thirty pounds overweight. And you wonder which one is the girl you married.
-Three shots? Ovechkin had more in the first five minutes last night. Does Gainey need to stand in the room with a riding crop every night?
-I think the best word to describe that period is "endured."
1P 00:00:
A better opponent would be up 3-0
1P 1:09:
Lapierre has two giveaways on one shift and the Canadiens, Brunet says, have no legs
1P 2:00:
Pleks loses the faceoff and the first wave has trouble setting up. Koivu wave is no better
1P 4:00:
Two shots in 16 minutes, but here comes the PP
1P Break:
Great sequence for Higgins. If could only score ...
1P 6:00:
Again, a fourth line gives them fits.
1P Break:
Bit of a rough patch. I wouldn't want this to go to 2-0.
1P 7:40:
Price fighting it a bit, eh?
1P 8:30:
Canadiens have two shots
1P 9:33:
Really bad rebound, Carey And Hamrlik was soft on Sykora
1-0
1P 10:34:
Know what I love? Short, efficient, completed passes that move the puck forward
1P 11:28:
That PP looks like they're trying to get the new guy fired
1P 13:00:
Nice. Komo lays out Fetodenko
1P Break:
Stuttering start.
1P 14:50:
RDS guys say that was a renewal of Bell Centre hostilities, but that was Godard and Alex Henry
1P 15:08:
Good puck support by the forwards again tonight
1P 16:00:
Crosby needs better linemates
1P 17:00:
Sid against Koivu
1P 17:45:
Penguins start slow. Strange team
1P 19"00:
Malkin against Pleks
1P 19:52:
Fleury's first freeze
1P 20:00:
20 for 60, one more time
Bouchard on Kovy:
Quoting Joe Paterno: You don't play for the name on the back of your jersey, you play for the crest in front
Price:
Will have to be good, especially early
Benoit Brunet:
Liked Schneider and Markov. Me, too.
Penguins need it more:
But who wants it more? Welcome to Sports Cliché Central, where we play 'em one game at a time.
This will not be easy:
And I hope the Canadiens don't think it will be.
François Gagnon:
Forget Letang for Kovy. Canadiens, he says, are a better team with Kovalev – when he wants to play. But he's been uninterested for two weeks. Gagnon hopes Kovy will be back with a new attitude.
Features on Letang, Talbot:
Who cares?
Guy Lafleur:
Hey, I love the Flower. But his next coaching, management or scouting job in the NHL will be his first.
That Komo pass last night:
Brutal
Joël Bouchard:
Really likes Dan Bylsma and his assistant, Tom Fitzgerald
Crosby:
Not all happy with what's gone down this season
Pittsburgh:
Seven of next eight on the road. They REALLY need this one.
Price:
Beat Penguins for his first NHL win. Hasn't lost to them since.
Hamrlik:
Decision after the warm-up, says Luc Gélinas
Kovy's remarks:
Carb says he's happy with Kovy's denial. As if ...
Kovy:
Back at practice tomorrow? That's the buzz. Crazy.
Kris Letang:
Healthy scratch tonight
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