Oh-for-Florida

I bet this little guy could make a better game plan...

"Look how stationary the Canadiens penalty killers are. No one is attacking the puck. Downie could just walk out in front and take a shot if he wanted to."

If you wanted one sentence to describe tonight's game, that was it.

Turnovers.

Unable to finish.

Unable to skate.

Unable to deal with a hard, fast skating team.

Unable to deal with forechecking.

Niittymaki had nothing serious to save tonight.

How do you allow Downie and St. Louis to go at your net as they please leaving Price lunging every which way to follow their pass-and-go and try to stop that?

How do you stand around and stare at an opposing player waltz around, and all your goalie sees is your fat ass in his face, while you act like you don't give a damn about the puck?

Hey Lapierre, nice to see you on the PK, but you forgot about STAMKOS.

And Slippy playing D against the Stamkos/St. Louis line = WTF Jacques?!

Apparently Coach Martini wanted his team to force the Lightning to play defence. Well, I saw them play defence. Way better defence than our team. Everyone was pushed to the outside, forcing turnovers for the wrong team, causing havoc in front of the wrong net. But we all know forechecking teams give the Habs trouble. That's why I said the Devils game wasn't much of a measuring stick. And the Rags are just terrible.

They weren't scored on by the dregs of the Lightning either... We're talking St.Louis, Lecavalier, and Stamkos. This isn't the Florida Panthers, and we saw how that went yesterday. The only difference is Price doesn't allow 5 rebound chances for every shot, but the Bolts still managed 30. I don't even remember how the Habs got to 33 shots. I think I can remember 5... And 11:26 was the only time they had any inkling of a drive to try and score but that was in the 3rd period.

As Bob Mackenzie said, don't lump this on Price. He made some crazy hard saves for a guy who's in cold behind a back-to-back team that probably spent too much time on the beach. "The Canadiens were a no show".

However, they were a no show for the 2nd time in a row. And that is troubling, Coach. Shut out for the 5th time this year. I dare say...bring back Carbo?

And the frustration can be summed up by Price slamming his stick on the ice as he watched his team turnover some more and run around in circles. It was an attempt to say "hey guys, DO SOMETHING". And if Markov questions his heart once more, maybe someone should get into Markov's face and ask him if his heart is on the CH right now or if he's thinking about the Olympics, because from my vantage point Mr. MVP has turned over the puck as many times as Slippy and has found himself caught on the wrong end of a pinch way too many times these past horrible games.

TSN also claimed tonight's game looked a lot like that Edmonton-Chicago game last night. You get three guesses who looked like the Oilers, and the first two don't count.