Is it #RefFail weekend?

Did Terry Koharski stay to officiate the Habs/Bolts game? Not saying they were the reason for a 3-1 loss, but they sure played a part in this crap.

And frankly after coming out and matching the Bruins, they decided to just mail the fucker tonight. Must be a "Hey, Price is awesome, we can go back to being lame again" thing. Forget the shot clock. When you're offense consists of frantic and franetic pressure that's so disorganized even the camera has no idea where you are, you're just firing blanks while unable to connect on a pass to save your life. And the Lightning defence actually deserves more credit than RDS was giving them. Sticks on sticks, neutralizing passes, blocking shots, being annoying... Defence I'd love the Habs to do, but that's just a dream.

And the Chez Nous boys? Lapierre 6:22 ice time, Latendresse 5:28, BENCHED IN THE 3RD! Martin has been way too patient with them. If this team is going to go somewhere, they need to wake the fuck up and contribute. I'm not even talking about scoring, I'm saying HIT SOMEONE! Where's the intensity? See Malone there? How he parks his ass in Carey's face? That's what Coach Martin wants you to do, Guimauve.

At least we got a powerplay goal (Gio again with his perfect batting average), but it was looking horrendous for a while. Then Gorges grabbed the puck away from Carey and it went in on a collision. We've seen that before...and it's annoying.

RDS' Tanguay/Lecav/St-Louis love-in made me ill. Oh guess who left with an injury? Man of glass, Tanguay! And CBC calling out Andrei Kostitsyn for that messed up icing call that wasn't even icing (no one touched the puck, he won his battle, then got wiped out...but they made him the evil one for the pileup afterwards).

Whatever. My new pet hamster, Pleky, was more enthusiastic and entertaining than tonight's suckfest. Though I'm paranoid he's going to break out of his cage as he seems to enjoy gnawing on the bars by the wheel even though he's got plenty of yummy things to chew on. He also enjoys running ON TOP of the wheel instead of running in it.

And yes, I did name his after Tomas Plekanec. There's a reason for this!

Pleky doesn't know why he's got a Guimauve and a not-very-mad-Max on his line, so he cleans his feet.

Pleky wonders what this cage thing is and how it can be cut apart.

Pleky is glad Vincent Lecav can't spear him here! But he'd love to gnaw his legs off.

Pleky on a break away!

Damn you Sliippermaki!

Game 3: Another 4-2 loss in an empty netter

What I'm living off right now...

Nothing like a playoff home loss to bring out the douchebags. I'm guessing it's the whole mentality of "I paid a lot for these tickets you better win one for me" thing that causes a more generally knowledgeable fanbase to completely disregard the neutral zone trap the Bruins were throwing out in the 3rd which completely put a stranglehold on les boys from any thought of a comeback. (Don't forget, Julien did coach the Devils before they fired his ass a few days prior to the playoffs). Hey, they tried. Though like my brother said, "Bob, don't pull Price or it's Game 1 all over again". And thus Bob pulled Price for the extra man, and voila went the game. But for the fans to boo, throw their towels, and one fan even threw an errant puck back onto the rink so there were two pucks (and Weber nearly tripped on it)... My god, people, you're all morons. Go! Go and leave early! Who needs you anyway! I fart in your general direction.

I also got an extra towel. Score!

Cupcakes for Pricey! His team just totally makes his life miserable by just forgetting a player in prime real estate to score. Guys like Kessel and Ryder. Guys they shouldn't be forgetting about. There's only so many times the poor kid can slide back and forth making the saves and placing the rebounds out for you to start the attack, which is what Markov does... unfortunately he's the only one. Though Hammer and Gorges manage to do it sometimes.

Cupcakes for Kovy! Seeing that no one could connect a fucking pass, he took it on himself to take the puck and power through. Unfortunately when he needed help, his linemates were lagging behind. Andrei? Did that concussion return? Koivu? What happened to you? Tango's out for a bit and you vanish (and can't win a faceoff anymore).

Cupcakes for Stewart! Just for taking Bergeron out of the game for a hugging match while the refs grabbed Laraque and pulled him away from the crowd. Apparently refs are afraid Laraque will murder someone wearing a big B. By doing so, it gives Stewie time to play.

Cupcakes for Weber! The Swiss Mister finally got a goal! Perfect point shot, and it wasn't even one of his rockets, just a laser guided missile. Also, unlike our previous Swiss Mister, he's a better defenseman. He's definitely making the team next season.

Cupcakes for O'Byrne! I'm shocked, he actually didn't make any facepalm errors, threw his weight around, and cleaned up the crease. He gets extra for not screwing up and NOT taking a stupid penalty at the end. In fact I saw him nearly take one and he immedietly shifted his stick to avoid hooking a guy totally trying to draw a penalty.

Cupcakes for Gorges! Who, unfortunately never gets any help when he makes a great defensive play. Also Price was shooting pucks at him during warmup by the sideboards and he was practicing his "glove hand" and "stick side" moves. It was pretty funny.

Cupcakes for Metro! And not just for the handlebar stache. He actually won some faceoffs unlike the rest of these centermen...

The rest get to share a cupcake. Though Higgins and Hammer get a bigger portion of the one cupcake for scoring and actually playing defense. Gui gets the smallest piece because he's skating slower than BGL right now. What happened, Gui? Also needs to get away from Kostopoulos. His hands of stone disease appears to have spread.

Tim Thomas will drop that horseshoe one day. Not that it matters since his defensemen have a higher save percentage. But it's ok, they can live off their crazy luck this season. We'll see next year. We'll see how many perfect tips you can get or crazy perfect bounces that go right to you and seem to go right in. Bruins still suck.

If I hear one more fan chant for Carbo, I will punch them...