Leave your torches at the door and give Price a green beer. Before you attempt to jump on the kid for the loss, look at the shots clock: 42-29 RAGS. Apparently the meaning of life is 42, right? Third period 16-5 Rags. Outplayed and outgunned, and the Rags had the better chances. Technically Lundqvist didn't stop anything in the shootout either. (AK46 missed wide, as usual. Someone stop letting him on shootouts please). Had the Priceberg not been solid all game, I don't even want to speculate the score...
It's called "shit happens", story of our lives:
- 1 point courtesy of your goalie.
- Defense, you're doing it wrong...
- I actually feel the defense is more like a spectator sport. They were ok in the first and half of the second but then went to shit the rest of the time. Yet again they have their quadrants and refuse to enter the other quadrant if the puck is loose there before the other team gets it and no one on their team is there.
- Hesitation = death. I don't know how many times Gainey has to tell it to these guys. Komo holding the puck for longer than he should = more problems for Price.
- Best of Komisaurus tonight was destroying the camera in the penalty box. But even that he didn't break in the end. C'mon DOOM! DESTROY!
- Pretty much also lucky that Lundqvist is usually terrible against the Habs.
- Kovy eats the Rags for dinner. Scored while falling on his ass again. Roof of Daddy in the shootout. Had to play DEFENSE for a Breezer error.
- Yes Breezer is back to his two wrongs with every right.
- Oh the children! Patches and Dagger's best game yet. Caused all sorts of problems for the Rags.
- Apparently there's a 5 penalty quota now? The Rags aren't afraid of penalties because they're the best PK unit or whatever.
- Fruit Punch! He's got the touch! What a move.
- Koivu, win some faceoffs please?
- If we could clone Markov... defense might be better. And his face on his goal was of "Eh? I scored?". See the benefits of just throwing a puck at Lundqvist?
- Gui! is back, a beast on the boards.
- Rags are brimming with confidence. Habs are their polar opposites. Yet both teams are fairly equal...
- People ragging on Price for dropping too quick? Gimme a break. Look at Lundqvist... Saying Price can't make the key saves? HELLO? Did you even WATCH overtime when Breezer knocked Kovy out of the play right when he had a good scoring chance and Price had to make 2 huge saves? Is it because he doesn't fall all over himself like Tim Thomas? Price is huge. His size makes it look like he's not moving a lot when in fact he is.
- Well well well, Markov pulled a different move from his usual for the shootout. But Lundqvist's 5-hole was pretty open then, so I'm pretty sure his usual would have worked too...
- Price at the end was not pleased at all. I give hugs.
Conclusion: Can't fault him, he did his job. The rest? Offensively was OK, but not consistently. Rags completely outplayed the Habs tonight. Lang, get a new leg and get your butt out there please? Habs need one huge four leaf clover. Oh and Carbo is supposed to talk to the public tomorrow at 2pm. Live on CJAD. Wee...
Bulldogs report! Tonight they faced the Iowa Chops. Yea the bDucks are Pigs. The Pork Chops opened the scoring with two goals and then it was all Bulldogs. Flinn of all people opened the scoring. Then Glumac, who is now one shy of 30 goals. Then Aubin on the powerplay. Then little Desharnais on another powerplay. And Chipper with the empty netter. (Chipchura has 14 goals and most of them are empty netters). Both Brock Trotter and Sergei picked up 2 assists (Desharnais also got an assist). Chipchura also got into a scrap with someone.
Another day another milestone...
- And Brodeur rides those Devils happily for his 552nd win, making him the benchmarker.
- Apparently people suddenly realized Ovechkin is inconsistent and apparently people only now realized what his +/- rating is? I've seen him give up on backchecking way more than a slow player out-skating Breezer. The Caps were kind enough to shutout the Panthers, but Ovie is still looking for goal #50, and picked up an assist for an empty netter. But wow, 19 saves for Theo for the shutout? Somewhere, Price is thinking "19... yea that would be nice".
- Atlanta... you BREATHE inconsistency. No stopping the Pens now.
- Ottawa, we can always count on you to beat down the Slugs. Now be kind and lose Thursday? We need the points more than you, ok? A quiet night for Elliott, he only face 13 shots (11 saves). That's one good period for the Habs...
- Detroit woke up and stopped the Flyers from gaining more ground above. Not that it matters right now...
- It annoys me when the Leafs pull more wins out of their ass than the Habs.
- Dallas, Canucks, tied at 1.
3 comments:
Chipper got into a fight after some Chop dude chopped Sergei. If only Chipper was good enough to play in the NHL....*sniffles* I'm loving the Bulldogs these days... =)
And yes, Ovie is having issues. He'll sort them out *nods*
Chipper is good enough for the NHL. His defensive smarts would be very useful right now. Don't care if he can't win faceoffs, it's not like we win many anyway! (I'd make him a winger anyway). But at least he tries to go after the puck after lost faceoffs.
I'm also thinking/hoping he'll be wearing the C up here one of these days...
I don't want to be negative but I'm really not sure Chip has what it takes to be a regular NHL player. He's been given plenty of opportunity and he's just not cutting it - on the 4th line.
He's a terribly slow skater, he doesn't win battles on the boards, doesn't win faceoffs, has no real offensive upside... his only above average asset is his on-ice vision, which leads to good defensive plays.
However, a defensive specialist that can't skate is not that effective against guys like Ovie, Crosby, Lecavalier, Parise, etc. who are all tremendous skaters.
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