What a great F.ing series!:
Heartfelt handshakes
3P 00:07:
SERGEI!!!!!!!!!
Wow!
3P 1:19:
Best 40 minutes of hockey Canadiens have played this season.
2P 2:02:
Exclamation point!
Andrei K.
Over.
3P 3:36:
Such a great series. Let's hope no goon show.
3P Break:
Marc Savard: now he's tough. What a pussy!
3P 5:00:
Loud and on their feet from here on in
3P 7:50:
What a pass, BBreeze to Higgins
3P 9:24:
I don't believe the no-calls. Brutal!
3P 10:30:
Breeze giveaway. Tom the Bomb clears to save a tense situation. What a player!
3P 11: 25:
Pretty passing on the PP. Played it safe.
3P Break:
Smolinski: such a smart player. Heroic PK ... again. And they hustle Ference into a call.
Bruins 0-for-6 on the PP.
3P 15:43:
They have work to do with Sergei
3P 16:28:
Just a suggestion: NO MORE PENALTIES!
3P 16:39:
Kovy magic on the PK. Price is very alert.
3P 18:38:
Bouillon goes for creaming Kessel. This is worrisome.
3P 19:00:
PK is great tonight
Koivu:
An assist, four hits, 7-3 on faceoffs
3P 20:00:
Just 20 minutes of simple, intellligent hockey and we've got hockey at the Bell Centre on Thursday.
Chara and Ward:
Each minus-3
Between periods:
Crazy how this series has gone. After a horrible first 20 minutes – notwithstanding a 1-0 lead – the Canadiens played their best period since Game 1 of the series. The home team skated Boston into the ice and ran the Bruins D ragged – creating a fatigue factor that could bbe telling in the third.
2P 00:00:
An emphatic penalty kill
2P 1:05:
KOVY!! Not brilliant.
2P 1:34:
Is Carbo a genius or what? Those reconfigured lines ...
2P 2:18:
Every line dominant. Bruins clutching, grabbing, hanging on for dear life.
2P Break:
Mark Streit changed the game. This series finally looks like 1 against 8.
2P 4:47:
Even the PP has come to life. Higgins was outstanding. Video review on a goalmouth scramble. No goal. And then ...
ANDREI, K from Sergei
2P 6:48:
Price huge on Sturm. Then Kostopoulos battles and hustles Chara into a penalty.
2P 7:35:
The Captain: so f.ing great!
2P Break:
That goal changes EVERYTHING in this game
2P 9:15:
MARK STREIT!!!!!
Welcome back.
What a classic.
2P 10:50:
Price's positioning is off tonight. Bt another PK. Great work by Kovalev
2P 12:56:
terrible penalty at a terrible time.
2P Break:
Price saves off a Hamrlik giveaway. Those are heartstoppers.
2P 14:37:
Chances at both ends. Koivu put a goal on Kovalev's stick.
2P 16:00:
The brothers keep coming close. But Pleks is having trouble figuring them out
2P 16:53:
The rim-around clear is inevitably intercepted bby a Bruin at the blueline.
2P 17:09:
The Smoke line is Canadiens' best. Wish they could score.
2P 18;00:
Higgins two great chances
2P 19:30:
Glen Murray "mid-torso" injury. Out of the game.
2P 19:59:
Pleks and the brothers to start against Metropolit
2P 20:00:
If present trends continue, Boston will win. Shots, blocked shots and muffs were 30-13, Bruins. That's brutal.
Between periods:
Canadiens have to figure out a way to counter the Bruins' two-man forechecking scheme. It's a miracle Carey Price held them off through long periods of terriroial domination and two power plays ... Andrei Markov is playing hurt ... The Koivu line had some chances, as did the Smoke line, he Canadiens' most consistent of the playoffs
1P 00:00:
Good sequence to end the period.
1P 1:00:
The PP is horrible ... again. And Ward destroys Sergei.
1P 3:00:
Another shaky night for Markov. But here comes the PP
1P Break:
Bruins have dominated the period. The third period of Game 6 continues
1P 4: 11:
Very tough PK with no Markov. Shots are 11-4
1P 6:12:
Not a good penalty. Markov on Krejci.
1P 7:13:
Tense moments on the PK. Tom the Bomb and Smoke hustle like crazy, but Chara has become more effective at the point.
1P Break:
Breeze giveaway leads to a Breeze penalty. Bruins forecheck is all over the Canadiens D.
1P 10:36:
The Kessel line is killing Bouillon annd Gorges. Too fast. Shots are 9-4 Boston.
1P 12:25:
Saqve of the Game: Price on Savard
1P 13:00:
Love the brothers
1P 14:32:
Reconfigured Koivu line is all over the Bruins.
1P 15:00:
Huge Bruins pressure, right out of Game 6 script
1P 16:29:
Kovy Magic, and Komisarek blasts one home
1P 17:00:
Scary moments with Gorges and Bouillon
1P 18:30:
Pleks and the brothers against Kessel
Pisses me off:
Drowning out the U.S. anthem. No class, 'stie.
My mistake:
KOVALEV with Koivu and Higgins. Hmmmmm
1P 20:00:
Here we go, 20 for 60 yo!
Starters:
Koivu line, Bouillon and Gorges against Metropolit, Nokolainen, Axelsson, Hnidy and Ference
Loud already:
Phil Collins and the slide show are getting things rolling
Tom Kostopoulos's parents:
on RDS
Eminem:
for the warm-ups. I'd play Johnny Cash's cover of I Won't back Down.
Back in the lineup:
Charles Prévost-Linton
Guy in the know tells me:
Three of the NHL players most hated by their teammates happen to be Bruins: Manny Fernandez, Marc Savard and Phil Kessel. Legend has it that during a 5-on-5 scrap with Calgary, the Bruin locked up with Robin Regehr said "I'll let you go if you promise to beat up Savard."
Another RDS record:
Average audience for Game 6: 1.88 million, peaking at 2.6. This exceeds the viewership Radio-Canada had for the Cup-winning game in 1993. Note that the ratings service measures only viewership in Quebec. RDS has about 700,000 subscribers out of province, and you have to figure a few of them are watching hockey.
Seeking divine intervention:
Posted anonymously (I think it was Pope Benedict) today:
CATHOLIC HOCKEY PRAYER:
Our father, who art in Centre Bell,
Hockey be thy name.
Thy will be done, the Cup be won
On ice, as well as in the stands.
Give us this day our hockey sticks
And forgive us our penalties
As we forgive those who cross-check against us.
Lead us not into elimination
But deliver us to victory.
In the name of the fans,
Lord Stanley and the holy Habs.
Amen.
Where's he working tomorrow?:
From frequent poster HabsChick:
What are the chances?
I call Star Choice to add RDS after just cancelling a
couple weeks ago (I'm beyond sick of hearing Cole's Bruins-horny voice)
and the guy asks me if I'm ordering RDS to see the Habs lose. :(
Turns out he's in Montreal and is a Bruins fan.
I really hope this is not a bad omen.
May the wind always be at his back ..:
If Boston wins tonight, we've almost certainly seen the last of Michael Ryder in a Canadiens' uniform. I hope he fetches up in a good situation that will rekindle his scoring touch, because Ryder is a really decent guy who has handled a nightmare season with dignity and class. Never hides from the media, always smiling ... number 73 is a mensch
Feeling oddly serene:
Or should that be serenely odd? I have no idea how this game is going to unfold. And while I was a nervous wreck before Game 6, I am taking a more zen approach this time ... athough I suspect the Bell Centre crowd will drown out the sound of one hand clapping.
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The best part right now i this...
we offered him the same money, and we even threw in some extra incentives i believe that Philly did not...
...his reply...
"No, I want to play for a team that will compete this year for the Stanley Cup"
That was Daniel Briere then...
Right now all I can think of is this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKd4HJNSbQg
it's the same thing coming the flyers way right now !!!
everyone is saying in MTL how the FLyers are so big and tough...
No they are NOT, they talk tough, they act tough, but they are NOT tough !!!
can you say...
"Ba-Bye phily"
I'll say this for them though,
They got the best Damn Cheesesteaks on EARTH over there at GINO's...
But..for now...
"THE bOYS aRE bACK iN tOWN" !!!
Hey,
Just checking in.
I do not remember once in the past 45 + years any team what so ever that played the Habs any harder then the Bruins did in this series.
They earned much of their new found respect, however...
these happenings also confirmed one thing for me once and for all time.
The NHL regular season is A BAD JOKE AND IT COUNTS FOR NOTHING...IN SHORT...NOTHING BUT CRAP !!!
winning the first round and rioting? thats sad, why are people setting cars on fire?
on another note if you do have a chance to go to a habs game, please do not drown out the american anthem, there is no need to boo, sing ole or chant go habs go during it. how about just sing a long with it or just wait the 2 minutes
And I thought being stung by a hornet twice minutes before game time last night was bad luck. I wish these malcontents would dry up and blow away. I think it's time to get the Armed Forces involved and on the streets when the Habs are in the play-offs. What a disgrace!
Gilbert
Remember '71? Remember '86?
Now is the time to believe. The Drive for 25 is on! Go Habs Go!
I got bumped around a few times by riot police, looking something like a clash out of the Lord of the Rings. Tapping their shields in unison, chanting, they were a ridiculously intimidating force.
That being said, no place for fire bombing police cars and looting. You make a mockery of our city, using a Habs victory as an excuse to take the city into your own hands.
The news reports 5 burned cars, but i walked the streets the whole night and there were at least 10 that had been set ablaze. Guy street, where a car even blew up, was cleaned up quite quickly, but at this very moment shells of cars remain on Crescent, Drummond, and Peel...
The SAQ in the Faubourg and the American apparel and Reebok stores had their windows smashed and looted. I saw bruins fans walking around with their jerseys tucked in their stomachs like pregnant ladies because they were afraid to get beaten up. Bystanders nailed by errant rocks, thrown by (i apologize in advance, but i call em like i see em) mostly immigrants and francophones. I saw a police officer hit in the face with a glass bottle. Reporters and cameramen treated swept in away in a sea of batons and fluorescent green vests. Still smoldering police cars being treated like landmarks on a tour, smiles and pictures all around. I saw street fights break out between the rabid rioters and those with a bit more common sense, needing to resort to violence to prevent even more violence.
A reporter from Global news walks up to me at around 2:30 am, still roaming, drunkish, and amazed at what pathetic acts some people will do in the name of hockey.
"Sir, I see by your jersey that you are a Habs fan, any reaction to the vilence that resulted from tonights hockey game?"
"... There was a game tonight?"
I've been trying to find a way to watch Game 7 online. RDS hosts only the next game, and all other places I've checked only have highlights – does anyone know how I can get my hands on Game 7? Cost isn't an issue!
I can burn a DVD copy for you for a $1 million dollars or Playoff tickets in the Reds! Just kidding...
try sportleech.net
Glad to see the Habs proved Timo wrong, and you know what
PFFFT TO YOU TO).
This IS a bright atmosphere I came back to. Thank my lucky hat!
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
A large part of it has to do with us all changing our Avatars back :)
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
That was even more important than Carbonneau's lucky tie. :)
Agreed :)
My lucky hat came through!
e the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
My 5 stars of the game
1. Price
2. Begin
3. Higgins
4. Komisarek
5. Markov/Kovalev/Koivu
Markov struggled, but he battled very hard to break out of it. i liked to see it.
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
No Streit?
Can't fit.
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
Big team win. Everyone showed up and played their hearts out. I noticed a lot more second effort tonight than the last couple of games. They finally learned to respect their adversaries. Only trouble is Markov had at least two instances of ridiculously bad passes and wasn't terribly effective defensively a lot of the time. Has he had any points in this series? I think maybe one assist. PP not working also points to a Markov deficiency. I wonder if he is hurt.
Streit made up for his earlier horrors with the greatest two-deke goal of his career, and did not look like a wounded deer a la game 6.
Kovalev was "there" tonight.
Price was completely on top when he had to be.
No bad bounces to speak of (more often, the puck bounced fortuitously for the Habs)
Non-calls did not get us down. Then again, there were a couple more that could've been called against us but weren't.
Kostitsyn brothers look like they enjoy playing on the same line. Pleks is ready to be the go-to guy on line 2 and he won't miss Kovalev with these guys playing with confidence. Could be the best 2nd line center in the league (assuming Kovi, Koivu, Higgins stick together as line 1).
Komisarek was just a hair shy of Komisaurus. Let's see how an extra day's rest looks on him.
And for those who moaned about the lack of effort in Games 5 and 6, (and yeah, I did too) just remember how tough the schedule was in this series: 7 games over 12 days - and it was a physically punishing series. Lucky for us more of our guys didn't suffer the fate of Glen Murray tonight.
Lastly: playing Philly or NYR makes little difference when you consider Biron got a shut-out against the Caps, and that either team will give a huge effort with more offensive prowess than we have had to deal with thus far.
But the Habs can take either of those teams now. We should thank Julien's Bruins for holding our feet to the fire. That was our baptism. No small notch on the belt.
So go HABS go it is!
Hey boone, long time fan of your blogs...don't post as much as I did last year... I know you love to verbally beat up on the leafs....(what habs fan doesn't?) Thought this would bring a smile to quite a few habs fans!
link to pic : http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd315/elyran/LOL.jpg
LOL!!!!
Price won this game for us, it could have easily been 5-1 Bruins in the first period alone, he was completely on his game tonight.
The Habs were able to get back to their game and we are an unreal team when we have our speed and confidence in sync.
If we play the Rangers or Philly, I think we're in good shape either way - we had "The Comeback" against NY and I believe we're undefeated against Philly this season.
Great game boys, sleep well tonight everyone!
Go Habs Go!
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fans broke Cop car....we haven't won anything. First round, what the hell is rwrong with people.
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CH is for Chris Higgins
it's not the fans, it's crazy rioters rioting for the sake of rioting.
I'm so happy I could plotz!
I've spent the whole year praising Habs, so I just want to give respect to the Bruins. They played hard until the end, Thomas is a worthy athlete, and they have a bright future if they can land a couple of bona fide goal scorers. I also hope the booing of Chara, while fun in itself, is over. He almost single-handedly kept our potent first line off the scoreboard for much of this series. Even Carbo had to reassure Kovy not to worry too much about Chara. Not to mention fantastic coaching by the wily Claude Julien.
All in all, a great series, two great adversaries, and Boston accepted defeat very graciously, I thought.
Next stop: NYC/Philly.
Gotta love Bob Cole during the final minutes of the game. You would think he commentary for a live murder. He sounded so unenthusiastic and bored.
I love listening to Yvon and Pierre, they get so excited and into it. It makes the game more exciting listening to them.
Maybe he lost a ton of cash betting on the B's and felt kinda sick.
Did anyone catch Cole the Hole say "that should just about seal the deal" when we scored the fourth goal???
We owned the 2nd and 3rd periods and with 2 blessed minutes left, we sealed the deal....
I was actually waiting for a 4th goal to seal the deal as well.
sure we were dominating, but bounces can fall in funny ways.
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
Honestly, the last couple of minutes, I just wanted Cole to shut up and let me listen to the crowd
Pierre et Yvon let the crowd "do the talking" the last minute. Except for "Et let but!" when SK74 put the final nail into the coffin.
Hab fans are the "7th man". Ole!
Gilbert
Remember '71? Remember '86?
Now is the time to believe. The Drive for 25 is on! Go Habs Go!
Don't know if many checked out the "Go Habs Go" song posted below, but here is the link. What a great song for the playoff run. I hope it catches on.
http://www.myspace.com/gohabsgo08
I hope I can get tickets to game 5. I got my mom on the case while I am at school.
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