Habs 5, Wild 4 (SO): GONGSHOW

Description: Shenanigans. Seriously. I have no idea what I just witnessed.

Well, actually I do. Someone PLEASE end the Kaberle-Campoli pairing. We call it KA-CA for a reason! Shit happens whenever they're out there, literally. Shit like blowing leads in the 3rd period. Shit like refusing to change who they're facing despite having last change. Shit like getting trapped forever in their own zone until someone either scores, shoots it out of play, or flubs the blueline themselves. GOOD THINGS NEVER HAPPEN WHEN THEY'RE OUT THERE!

And then there was the fighting. Ryan White and Stephane Veilleux were ready for 3 rounds but only made it 2. Though you can't really call it rounds since the first one had Veilleux flopping around White and hanging off his back, leaving our wild-hair boy standing there with a "wtf?!" motion at the thing clinging to his rear. The other one was revenge for Veilleux's hack on Price but ended more of a clobbering. Shit happened after every whistle to the point I thought the game would end at 11:30 if we were lucky. Clutterbuck giving hugs to Eller. Hell even Weber got into it.

The LOLs didn't stop there! The hit of the night was from Emelin, of course. Unfortunately it was him missing his target and sending Erik Cole cartwheeling. He made up for it soon after with a real hit on a Wild player later.

Wee~!

Refs ended the gongshow with their own stamps. Did they feel bad because the Wild took a gamut of early penalties they had no choice but to call? I thought they made up for that by calling a gamut of shit on the Habs, including a wonderful dive by Cal Clutterbuck... The coup de grace: A big wide beautiful empty net for Patches. He's hooked and hooked and hooked some more with no call and finally falls over. Refs ignore it. According to the rules, if a player is interfered with on a clear empty netter attempt such as this one it's an automatic goal, or the ref just calls a regular penalty. Unless they got rid of this rule the same way the mysteriously got rid of the "player penalized near the end of OT may not participate in the shootout" rule. EITHER WAY IT WAS A PENALTY. So of course the puck gets trapped down behind the Habs' net. Price sees Pleky at the blue line and swings it to him (because he was probably sick of watching his teammates fuck up the clears). I guess he was hoping Pleky would tip it out or whatever. Though if Pleky didn't hit the puck, the Wild either go offside or the puck is cleanly cleared out of the zone. Instead SHIT HAPPENS and these fuckers get lost in their zone. Boom, overtime. Still wouldn't have happened if the refs did their fucking job on that empty net!

But. BUT! Refs couldn't fuck up the shootout! And no way Kraperle or Crapoli could fuck it up either without being on the list. Desharnais continues his awesome ways and scores the only goal in the shootout by evading the pokecheck for a beautiful backhander.

Then this happened.

Ooops.

Thank you Devon Setoguchi for being all kinds of fail.

Of course if the Habs play shit like this in their own zone on Saturday it's not going to end well. WAKE UP BOYS. And stop fucking around with Price's numbers. Every defenceman other than PK, Gorges, Emelin...SUCKS ASS. I want Hal Gill back. Fred St. Denis is a better option than Ka-Ca!

Now we have to find out if both Gomez and Palushaj had their eyes gouged out by sticks tonight or not.