not so good coaching at the end of the game, the langs line was changed toooooooooo soon and laps line was on the ice way too long, they had a chance to change but Carbo kept them there.
Oh well... played a solid first half, got some unfortunate calls in the 2nd, but didn't really take it to them in the 3rd while the game was still in reach.
Oh well...The Habs lose to the Bruins so I am getting out of here for the night....This will turn into nothing but a flame war between Bruins and Habs fans on both boards..I pity the mods when the Habs and Bruins play...Have and nice night guys and gals..........
Great effort by the Habs, too bad a "higher power" had to get involved, between all the lucky breaks(2nd goal off Markov's stick) and bad calls(there were 3-4), what else more do they need?
I'll give Thomas credit he was lucky but he also made 3-4 great saves, Halak was equally as good.
We didn't deserve it, Boston did. Reffing or not. Our inability to score on the road and overcome tight, tough defensive teams is my main reason for doubting a cup run this year. Boston is one of those teams and are clearly superior. If we can't even handle them in our own building, we'll know it's going to take a real great effort from everyone to beat them in a series. If we just stay 4th, we'll have the best situation possible at this point. 12 pts. back of the Bruins, even with a game in hand, means we'll have to rely on them falling apart to catch them. Not likely, IOW!
Meh, we'll get them when it counts and when we'll have our #1 goalie and our first line.
And they'll have a 70 point Bergeron back, Their leading goal scorer Kessel back, Their terrorizer Lucic back, Another gifted scorer in Sturm back and a solid d man in Ference back?
I'm sorry man, this team has forgotten how to beat Boston. They're trying to beat Boston at their own game, it started in the play-offs last year. We have decided we wanna beat them at being physical and finishing in front of the net, well, we suck at that. If we'd puck possess and use our speed, we'd have no problem, but we don't so we lose.
Blame the refs all you want but our guys only managed to put 1 puck in behind Tim Thomas.
thats basically the story. after the first Montreal all but shut it down or were shut down. Probably a bit of both. The effort wasn't bad but wasn't fully committed either. Kovalev was non existent in a game of this magnitude is extremely disappointing.
We didn't deserve it, Boston did. Reffing or not. Our inability to score on the road and overcome tight, tough defensive teams is my main reason for doubting a cup run this year. Boston is one of those teams and are clearly superior. If we can't even handle them in our own building, we'll know it's going to take a real great effort from everyone to beat them in a series. If we just stay 4th, we'll have the best situation possible at this point. 12 pts. back of the Bruins, even with a game in hand, means we'll have to rely on them falling apart to catch them. Not likely, IOW!
nethings possible mate...see last years sens...but thomas is really making some ridiculous saves...and even when he doesnt stop the puck or it goes through him it stays out (see kovys chance)
Zebras 1 - Habs 0 tonight boys- what a ****in brutal game of pansey calls (Kost 5 mins?? Breeze a "reach"??)when both teams were skating and hitting early on - nice job ****in job pencil necks - way to ruin a new NHL great game of speed and passing!!
1. Thomas was incredible. You say he flops, drops, whatever. He is good, real good.
2. We lost to a great team.
3. We didn't play that bad. Just lost because of opposing goaltending, and the 5 minute major which was questionable in terms of length.
Go habs Go!!
Good points...but still, disapointing tonight, thought the Habs deserved at least 1 point tonight
Then again, before AK46's awful call (that was not a penalty, not even close) he missed on a beautiful feed from Markov, it was a wide open net and actually...I think Ward made the save. But that was huge, Habs also had a few chances to tie it and couldn't...tough break
