Habs 1, Devils 2: Would be nice to have 5 goalies like them

Want a recap?

1. Travis Touchdown shorthanded backhand through Brodeur's legs. His 7th goal of the year. But TSN will refuse to show it in the recap 'cause that would be fair.

2. 80% of the penalties were bullshit.

3. Devils weren't called for anything save for one shocking hooking call? Meanwhile Rhino was sent headfirst into the boards, but that's ok, Bettman said not to give the Habs powerplays because Bob hates him.

4. Don't blame the Habs for this boring game. The Devils were BORN boring.

5. Devils ran into each other more times than I can count.

6. NOT A BAD PENALTY! Price had no choice but to go into the "zone". Habs took their sweet fucking time to get there. If he had left it, Devils would have been all over his net. And they killed the penalty anyway. You usually defend during the last 2 minutes of a period unless there's a better opportunity, and the Habs had better opportunities while shorthanded.

7. And on that penalty, do you question the ref's eyesight when he looks over to the goalie and says "Montreal number uh thirty-uh...seven". Really?

8. Hey Pleky, gonna try to stop Elias from crashing the net or are you just admiring his rear?

9. The team that looked in control earlier this month looks out of control, except when shorthanded. I think these guys are out of gas completely. Tomorrow will be annoying.

Injured: Hammer. Looks like a knee thing. We're screwed~~~!

Stop blaming Price. Who cares if he let in a banana. I seem to remember one Marc-Andre Fleury putting a puck in his own net with his ass in the Stanley Cup game. What about the other 25 saves, most of them gloved and held to stop the pain in his defensive zone, most of them not very easy ones? And Moen's goal wasn't exactly Ovechkian either. The team still had over 30 or so minutes to do something about it. How many wide open nets did they miss or lost the puck in a sea of feet? In a 2-1 loss where you spend most of the time on the outside chasing, or in the neutral zone sleeping, I can think of 18 other guys not trying hard enough to win a game they had enough of a chance to win if there was more offensive attempts the other way...

And contrary to popular belief, the Devils have 5 goalies on the ice all the time. Habs only have the one. The difference between the traffic in each team's respective zone is rediculous and noticeable. If Brodeur were a Hab, he wouldn't be on Team Canada's list.

If you're going to blame Price, even though they were outshot all night (though not in the 30+ range), then you better start blaming Cammy for never scoring on the road.

Bottom line though:
- Goaltending is not the problem yet everyone seems to just talk about it.
- They weren't shut out. Terry Sawchuck is sitting on Brodeur's shoulder. Glaring.
- Sabres were shut out by the Sens. With Miller in nets. Huh?
- Leafs lost. Badly. In a battle of sloppy hockey teams (Coyotes). Ho ho ho!
- Torts went Torts. Though to answer his question, the Rangers are suffering from the same thing the Habs are suffering from (ie. blitz season). Too bad the colourful angry personality coaches will get fined for swearing tirades. Why? Children don't attend press conferences...
- RDS will hold a parade tomorrow for Gui.

And That Was Boring...

I've heard that Jacques Lemaire coaches teams to a boring, solid T but I never saw it live. Now I have, and I concure. Maybe it's a tactic to bore the piss out of your opponents?

Anyway, final preseason game sets a 3-0 loss to the Minnesota Wild, where Koivu's bigger little brother Mikko got a small cheer from the crowd as the announcer mentioned him in the opening lineup. Gaborik played nicely too, despite Risebrough saying they're not going to sign him an extension eventhough he wants to stay there. Huh? What? Can we take him, then? Trade?

As the team goes on vacation without him, Carey Price wonders how well they'd play with Denis in nets
Of the Habs that managed to stay awake were (thankfully) Carey Price, who was rather spectacular and if he had fallen for the sleep-trap, it would have been 5-0 Wild in the first period. Rolling his eyes after making a flurry of point-blank close ranged saves after once again saving his defense's ass...well, that really said it all about the game. Maxim Lapierre, Tom Kostopoulos, and Steve Begin were the only offense with life. The powerplay stank about as bad as the metro (it smelt like skunk from Snowdown to Namur) and all the other lines just cycled the puck around for 3 hours. It got so bad that by the mid-third period the entire crowd yelled "SHOOT!!!" which they did, ever so lightly, right at Backstrom for an easy save. Begin also had a fight with some guy who came after him once the game was over. Dunno what that was all about... I know Begin checked someone, and it was rather clean. He got elbowed earlier too, which he already returned with a small tussle and a cross-check, but was that the reason?

There are fans who suck, and fans who suck more.
I also told some kids behind me to stop booing 'cause they were driving me up the fucking wall. Glad that isn't my normal seat... (I was stuck under the kid's zone.) And people who leave losing games at the last 5 minutes of play, you all suck!