Habs 2, Bruins 1: Trumpets and all that fanfare

Allow us to bask in this glow...

First in the Atlantic, baby!

Exhausted? Check. Carey Price? Check. Bruins? Teehee. Got Pleks? Hell yes.

And they scored those goals after I noted how gassed they looked, figuring they won't score a single goal tonight. Reverse psychology!

Habs 2, Red Wings 4: Things that could have been...

"Cleary there is something wrong here."

Is it just me or do all the Red Wings fans in the crowd look like they spend their days at some local truck stop sipping coffee, reading USA Today, and chowing down on greasy fries? But I digress. A Friday night in Motown NOT HOCKEYTOWN was there for the taking and the Habs let this one slip away...

Red Wings home uniforms make them look like Santa Clauses:
- Penalties make me want to throw waffles.
- Especially your stupid hooking penalties, Cammy.
- But you know, the only reason we question them is because the refs don't call any on the OTHER team.
- Then again, no one has called the Red Wings for blatant interference since forever. Just ask the Penguins.
- Talking about the refs, they got in the way at least 10 times per period. All of them. Including kicking the puck out right in front of Price (luckily he was watching and there were no Santa Clauses around). Don't know what the big deal is about the Swedish dude, he sucks. So did his partner, whoever the hell he was.
- Cammy misses the net so many times it's getting annoying. Thankfully Moen bounced the rebound off Howard's ass.
- The rest of the first and most of the 2nd was OMGPRICE. Just about 20 shots in the first alone.
- Hal Gill should just remain lying on his side during the PK. Can't do anything when he's there.
- But really Gorges, you couldn't put your foot on the puck for 1.2 seconds more? Sigh...
- Pleky VS Datsyuk was like Fight for the Selke. And frankly Pleky VS 5 Red Wings, twice, by himself? Pleky wins.
- Also was killer on faceoffs but those mean shit when your wingers never get the puck you've won.
- Pouliot really needs to show up for more than just one fucking goal on his lone 60ft shot of the game.
- That fluttering rebound shot with Howard on his ass that went right into his glove? Yea, you would have only scored that if this were against the Senators...
- Jimmy Howard didn't like hearing the Carey chant. Too bad for you, the Habs fans from Windsor can jump over the river to fill you old, empty rink where no one cares to chant your name.
- I perked up with interest whenever Eller had the puck and flew into the opposing zone. I liked that he was with Cammy. Then I promptly facepalmed when Cammy wasted his efforts and gave the puck away by flubbing the pass...
- We assume the extended playtime with Gomez has caused not only Cammy to miss the net continuously but Kostitsyn too. Especially those wide open ones.
- Piss poor effort at the end to tie it up with the empty net behind you guys. And by guys I mean what the hell were the Wonder Twins doing?
- And I don't regard empty netters as real goals so the LOLstat is still "No Habs goalie has allowed more than 3 goals in regulation".

Habs, I am disappoint. If you could have NOT taken 5-billion penalties in the first half of the game, you could have either won this or gone to OT easily. Regardless, playoff hockey is fun even though it's not the playoffs. A series with the two teams would be great, if not for the annoying League-assisted handicap.

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Not eating that.

Bulldogs had their preseason opener against the HATED Toronto Marlies in Edinburgh, Scotland today. Jet lagged and faced with the enormous Olympic sized rink, the boys dominated the Leafs for 3 periods but Marlies goalie Reimer showed why Pogge wasn't very important anymore for them. Finally in the 3rd period, J.T. Wyman got the only goal of the night for the double goalie shootout (Desjardins and Mayer). But the thing I found more interesting, or maybe worrisome, was that the boards in this old arena are made out of concrete blocks covered in wood... Needless to say, if Rhino had gone to the tourney, 5 Marlies would be out with massive injuries from being destroyed into them.

Also the crowd in that rink is awesome. You think Habs fans sing? You should hear these guys.

Habs have one more game before they head out to the Ranch. Tonight was the Bruins. For some reason, the Bruins have been annoited Saints and don't get penalties anymore even when they run your goalie full-speed ahead. Can't even punch the guy to make him pay for it because they whisked him away quickly. I can see this is going to be a long year with those fucking zebras. They even stopped Stewart from going at it, but he got to anyway. Not like he had much choice in the later bout considering it was a mutual glompage. Bruin was covered in Stewie's blood and looked rather amazed from it all (seems the cut came from when he hit the ice before the fight during the mutual glompage).


Anyway, we saw the first real inklings of Martin's system and I gotta say I think it's great. The D and the forwards switch positions to keep the cycles going while in the offensive zone, and everyone gets back to defend. Gomez can kill penalties on his own. I think Pleky was out there the entire OT. Sergei scored the lone goal and made Thomas angry. Jaro needs to stop playing the puck. O'Byrne could teach Komisarek how to play with the way he's going. I'm thinking the HMCS Hal Gill is a better mentor for the big guy, except Rhino hits more while Gill is a shover. Oh and the powerplay was looking way better than the Bruins, even without Markov there. Just saying.

Tonight we retire the tag "lock Breezer in a trunk please" as the Breezerpalooza has officially come to an end, pending any dramatic returns in the future. And for a guy like him to have lasted this long, we salute you Patrice Brisebois. Farewell to one of the last bastion of the wooden stick. So without further ado, I present my favourite Breezer moment.