Habs 2 but really 4, Panthers 1: IT'S A TARP!

Blow it out of your ass, Furlatt. Yet again 2 perfectly legitimate goals were disallowed in a fucking WEEK against this team. Do you really have to keep those tarps entertained down in Florida? Intend to blow, ok. But Moen was taken down as the puck flew into the net before he did. NOT EVEN A PENALTY CALLED.

Otherwise, no one really gives a fuck about a Habs-Panthers game on a Monday night. However, now that they won, we will be forced to watch the BouRay pairing fuck around on defence yet again! That's Wednesday versus the Flyers. Can you say "hat trick Clod Giroux"?

By the way, Price tweaked his groin in the first period. Looked ok for the rest of the game, even with Emelin and PK nearly Hamhuising him.

Habs 2, Panthers 3 (SO): Yo

Really. What is it with this team and not being able to really give much of a damn to beat the fucking Florida Panthers? Or Scott fucking Clemmensen? I probably wouldn't be so pissed off with this loss if the god damn stupid blind linesman saw Sean Bergenheim was two-feet offside before Samuelsson sent a shot through Blunden and tied it up. Then again the linesman wasn't even in position. Either DO your fucking job or get off the fucking ice.

And yet somehow these guys are able to see offsides at fullspeed or with pucks flying through the air...

It was the Carey Price show for most of the game. Rinse, repeat. His record against the Panthers is considered a losing one but his stats against them is beyond insane. Games like this, usually 2-1 losses, or getting shut out. It's frankly criminal.

Much like it's criminal for Erik Cole to get his 31st goal...and no playoffs. Again.

Anyway, at least we had THIS. Steady Freddy with an incredible pass to Louis Leblanc, creating a 3-on-0. You can't deny the fact that when Louis scores goals, despite being a yo-yo rookie, he sure scores them pretty.

So apparently the Leafs lost today and were officially eliminated. Getting shutout by the Canes at home sent them tumbling down to 14th. Habs wave and say "'Sup".

Habs 2, Panthers 3: Go away 2011

Well gee if you guys bothered not giving up the empty netter, Erik Cole's 16th goal of the year would have brought you to overtime. Instead I missed the goal because once I saw that piss poor attempt to save the empty netter, I flipped to Team Canada's game.

Oh and Krys Barch got ejected for racial slurs towards PK. Bravo, 2011. You officially end as shitty as you were.

So. Happy New Year I guess. And it's either the end of the world or the start of something better. Either way, 2011 can fuck off and die. In a fire.

Eller prays for this team to suck less in 2012.

Habs 3, Panthers 2: Bank shot!

There's a diagram of the game winning goal by Captain America.

Habs and Panthers both ended their previous night in a similar fashion: a shootout. Only the Habs won theirs while the Panther's lost theirs. And now both games in a back-to-back situation were a comeback grind. Stick to the plan, good things should happen.

I suck at pool.
- Finally someone decided to win the Molson Cup other than Price, and it's Mr. Underrated Tomas Plekanec!
- Hey Tieman? Eat your words on AK46.
- No really, stop bitching about Andrei and stop trying to find ways to trade him for the impossible or useless.
- Text intercepted between Ellerby and Price: "Why is everyone hitting me? :("
- Text intercepted between Price and Ellerby: ":D"
- Actually Ellerby's hit on Andrei really woke him up because he was being lulled to sleep by the hypno-Panthers.
- Alex Auld should stop playing the puck.
- Habs need more goals like Halpern's. Perfect move to tip that sucker in.
- Yea the Panthers take plenty of silly penalties. But the PP is in predictable mode.
- Hamr's skate broke. For a guy that doesn't pivot, I don't know how this happened.
- Quote of the night: "Et Veber dit OUF!" (Other than that one gaff which he worked hard to correct, Weber had a solid night).
- With a lead and 2 minutes left, please don't send out the Hamr-Wiz pair...
- Things you've gotten used to hearing to the point where it doesn't actually surprised you: "Higgins! ...Shoots it wide!"
- Things you've grudgingly gotten used to: Gomez's stupid penalties.
- Things we learned from Twitter: According to RDS, Subban's the 1st rookie Habs defenceman to reach 20 points in 10 years. Last guy to do it was Andrei Markov.
- Panthers are a quiet, frustrating, hard-working team but they're meaningless in their existence.
- Where can I get that tuque Carey was wearing?

Mr. Underrated is your first star of the night.

Habs 1, Panthers 2: You snooze you lose

Waldorf: Just when you think this show is terrible something wonderful happens.
Statler: What?
Waldorf: It ends.

Trap hockey is no fun. The only excitement one gets is when the final buzzer rings, signaling freedom. Lucky for the crowd, those tickets weren't expensive.

This evening was snuffed by a kid named Shawn Matthias. And by Jaro's inability to deal with penalty shots. And by Martini allowing his team to fall into the trap.

And as Kirk Muller screams for "Intensity! Crash the net! Get on their D!", he may as well be screaming at the wall.

Guess they used up all that energy smacking the Rags around on Saturday.