When after the 2nd goal? The period was about to end.
3rd goal? We just came out from the lockeroom I doubt the boys need a timeout.
4th goal? We pulled Auld.
If anything I would liked to have seen Auld pulled after the 3rd. He had an off night..lucky for those 3 posts.
After the 3rd goal, the momentum was all Calgary. Everyone in the building but JM could feel it. Yeah, pulling Auld would have been preferred, but failing that....call a timeout and settle the team down.
Which sucks since it's I think the Habs 4th game in 6 nights and the second game of a back to back which will be tough to win and a road game to boot.. The Habs will be in tough tomorrow night in Buffalo..
JM will be happy with the 2 points but will for sure give his team an earful for blowing a 4 goal lead.. A collapse like that is unacceptable for a team fighting for a playoff spot.. Watching the Habs play since early December as been real bad for one's health..
Kudo's to the Flames for not quitting after being down 4-0..
It happens to every teams at least once a season to blow a such lead.. We obviously sat on the lead thinking about tommorow game, but we still found a way to win..
Alot of positives in the last 2 games IMO, the transition looks good as well as the execution.. A.Kost and Eller are looking good and thats the depth we were all hoping for going into the season.. Its starting to click and I like it..
It happens to every teams at least once a season to blow a such lead.. We obviously sat on the lead thinking about tommorow game, but we still found a way to win..
Alot of positives in the last 2 games IMO, the transition looks good as well as the execution.. A.Kost and Eller are looking good and thats the depth we were all hoping for going into the season.. Its starting to click and I like it..
I agree about Eller, but not for this season. Too much too soon.
Other teams score more than 2 and a half goals a game you know.
The league average is 2.78 goals, actually. Significantly more than 2.5, I'll agree, but...
And you do realize they scored 5 goals tonight, surely? Chicken wings!
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We just seem to not be able to score. Other teams score 5 or 6 goals many times per year. Habs have no chance to do that with Martin in Charge.
Actually the Habs generate tons of shots and plenty of scoring chances. Their lack of scoring is mostly due to bad luck. Eventually that'll fix itself and we'll be on for a good surprise. In the meantime, blaming Martin for the lack of scoring is misplaced.
I know being a fan means having fun by overracting, but at some point, you have to realize we've seen this movie before, and recognize where it comes from and what it means.
Games like this happen and don't particularly mean anything.
In this particular case, I agree with you.
This was mainly on the goalies: Karlsson being vastly better than Kiprusoff, and Auld collapsing a bit in the second half of the game.
The Habs did not collapse so much as the Flames mounted a good comeback while getting vastly better goaltending from Karlsson than they did from Kiprusoff.
That being said...
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Collapses, blowouts, "statement games", they're actually the least meaningful games there are.
I don't agree. At least not when such games are between rivals.
A few years back, when the Habs and Sens were in dogfights for the top spot in the Division, we used to get totally dominated by the Sens almost every time we played them. This was in the days when Spezza, Alfredsson, and Heatley made up one of the five best scoring lines in all of hockey, and we were utterly unable to contain them whenever we played the Sens.
Late in the most recent season in which we won our division, we had a game against that powerhouse Sens team. We stormed out to a big lead against a Sens team that had always owned us, and went on to win the game decisively.
Since that game, the fortunes of the Habs and Sens have gone in very different directions...
I don't think that every blowout means something, but when it's against a rival, it can.
Of course, the Flames are not a rival of the Habs, as we're not even in the same conference.
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Hockey is too low-scoring a game, and parity is too strong, for stuff like that to be anything more than flukes.
I can't say that I agree with that either.
If, for example, the Red Wings toppled the Islanders 6-0, would you honestly think that the different roster quality between the two had nothing to do with it?
Blowouts are sometimes flukes, yes, but that doesn't mean that they always are. Some teams really are a notch or two above the rest, or a notch or two below the rest.
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Bank the two points, forget the game, move on to the next.
