Habs 1, Pens 3: Welcome to the CrapFest

Carey Price has an Angry Level.

When he's playing awesome and his team is sucking ass, you can see the Angry Level in how he's sending messages to the rest of his team. Once he slammed his stick on the ice after stopping a 3rd breakaway against the slumping BJs and the Habs woke up to win that game 5-3. That was "Angry Level: I'm gonna use you for roping practice and you'll be the cow".

Tonight, Price Angry Level reached "nuke the fridge". He's annoyed. Very annoyed. He wants to win and wants that 100th already (something he would have had last year if this team didn't get shutout or score less than 1 goal the year before). He most likely wanted Hal Gill's 1000th game to be kick ass awesome instead of rotten wet noodles. He wanted the puck to actually go past the red line instead of constantly ringing around his zone. He was totally annoyed his mates kept ignoring Real Deal Neal in the slot (who the Stars should have never traded, idiots). He definitely didn't want to find himself alone behind his net with two Penguins and no help as he fished out a zone clearing on the powerplay. He definitely wanted to kick that ref that called him for knocking the net off when he hit it while scrambling back into position (asshat ref). And he probably wanted to punch Mathieu Darche for the slowest, shittiest, shorthanded breakaway we've seen since Georges Laraque went on a bizarre breakaway once. And his Angry Level was most likely at "I'm not even going to cheer that goal" when the team woke up with 2 minutes left.

Price Angry Level at FUCK Y'ALL!

(Note: Price was pretty chill in the room after. Gio was Captain Angry though).

Ugh. Soul sucking. How was it possible that a game against Lindy Ruff's IT'S A TRAP Sabres was more energetic and exciting than this one against the Penguins?! Maybe it's their dead-silent crowd.

And the line combos generated by the Powerball number machine really killed this game even more. No idea what JMart was thinking, but I'm thinking it only took 5 games for Jacques Demers to get fired...

Injury List
- Gomez left early with an upper-body ouchie.
- Patches fell bad into the corner, returned but might need a therapy day in the hot tub.
- Engqvist got punched in the face, returned with nose-plugs
- Eller had something but came back. (Was Habs best forward)
- Cammy was back but suffered from Powerball Line Combo-itis.
- Gionta suffered from invisibilty spray, but scored that late goal.
- Cole suffered from being mocked by Sergei Samsonov.
- PK suffered from not enough flash or moxy.
- DD suffered from forgetting how to win faceoffs.
- AK46 suffered from being the wrongfully accused scapegoat for whatever reason.
- Emelin suffered from out-of-position forwards.
- Diaz suffered from being extremely pretty.