Habs 1, Devils 4: I'll show you a distinct kicking motion...

Right to the face.

Kerry Fraser on disallowed Gallagher goal: That puck was behind his (Gallagher) vision scope & rotated in positional battle with Greene. Incidental perhaps; not distinct! I say good goal!

So Murphy and/or Campbell and/or whoever they have in the closet in Toronto is so full of shit to overturn what the ref called a goal on the ice that they should be fired.

Also Clowe bowling for Price on the second goal was complete bullshit, considering Gallagher got tossed into the Sacred Cow and got a penalty for it. Hell you can't wave a stick in his face without him bitching about something.

Fuck the Devils. Glad we don't have to see this shit excuse of a boring trap team for the rest of the year.

However, I suddenly have an urge to eat pizza...

Habs 1, Perds 2: EMBEZZLEMENT

Tonight's officiating crew.

The truth is out. And people called us paranoid. People called us ridiculous. Well, where are those people now?!

- Seriously. PK skates down the ice with Nystrom on his back who finally pulls him down and the ref calls a hold and dive.
- Instead of "embellishment" (which was ass over fuck you crazy), the ref calls it "embezzlement".
- Freudian slip! Check his ProLine!
- Perds went nuts when they scored a goal that basically bounced off Prust and Gorges on the end of a 5-on-3.
- I was sure they were going to call another penalty on PK for "skating with the puck", or "attempting to cause offense", or "existing".
- Shooting the puck over the glass like a boss. The ghost of Roman Hamrlik has come to haunt us.
- Gorges gets a blindside hit to the head, no call. Briere gets a leaping hit to his head without the puck, no call. Not even interference. But Tinordi be damned if he battles on the boards with someone!
- The 18-year-old Seth Jones is trusted more by his coach in all situations than 24-year-old NORRIS TROPHY WINNER PK Subban is by his own coach. Think about that for a second or five.
- Gaustad still goes after smaller guys, pisses his pants when Tinordi comes to say hi.
- Markov forgot how can haz hold blue line.
- Half the team looked like they were stickhandling with telephone poles. Which caused Jones' goal to happen, Moen.
- Rinne nearly did a Bernier.
- The only players that showed up really were Price and the Eller line. Guess who scored for the Habs? The Eller line. Twice.
- Except the ref at the goal pointing at the net calling the second one a goal was overturned by 3 guys at the other end of the ice. And apparently the call on the ice stands, just not on this ice.
- Price continues his trend of posting ridiculous save percentages against the Perds and losing.
- This team doesn't know what to do when forechecked. Especially Diaz.
- They pull Price for the extra man, but considering how shitty the power play was all game I don't know why they even bothered.
- Also they broke the rounded glass. I thought for certain they'd make 25 seconds into another 5 minutes...
- I guess we can play with broken glass now.
- Shockingly didn't give up the empty netter no matter how hard they tried.

Considering how shitty Briere was playing, I wanted Leblanc up in his spot for various reasons. One, he's actually playing as a winger. Two, Lefebvre is once again wasting our time and sabotaging his by putting him with a grinder and a facepuncher. And three, he can probably skate more, do more, want more than what Briere is showing us. That said they probably won't even call him up. They'll probably call up Dumont for whatever reason. With Briere and Prust probably out now, maybe they'll call both...

Also can we please just keep Brolieu up? That 2nd powerplay unit is SHIT.

Habs 5, Lumbus 3: It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's....

Tomas Plekanec, shot out of the Lumbus cannon and saved the game with little over a minute left! All you idiots who want to trade him for whatever can kindly come here and get bitten by my dog. (He's got sharp little teeth).

- All day I heard about the "return home game let down". Honestly I was more concerned with the team getting shutout, since that usually happens after Price gets a shutout. It's like they get more complacent than usual.
- Instead, Bourque was as pale and translucent as a ghost with the flu, used it to cherry pick a super stretch passed by PK and scored a goal early!
- Seriously, someone cough on all his things. He plays so much better when sick.
- Imagine your first goal was Subban spin to Markov for a one-timer past the last Vezina winner? Happy goal day, Bournival!
- The local refs were in town. Naturally they had to put on a show!
- PK threw a perfect hit. Ref calls him for an elbow. Apparently the ref has his own elbow up his ass.
- Habs looked pissed over that call. So they scored shorthanded.
- Good thing they did because they fucked around on the penalty kill right after and gave up a goal.
- Boone Jenner was supposed to do these things, guys.
- Our faceoffs were horrendous. But this isn't news.
- I'd like Briere to take that torch the Habs graciously handed to him and use it to light a fire under his ass. EVEN GOMEZ IS DOING BETTER.
- Naturally with Patches on the mend with a strained hammy, RDS thinks Habs should bring in Simon Gagne. Because one useless old injury prone Chez Nous ex-Flyer wasn't enough eh?
- Wisniewski looks weird without a full face cage. But I give it time.
- Ever since they removed Eller from the Gallys to "jump start" other guys, he's looked out of sorts. You have officially fucked with his mojo!
- Regardless, I can watch Eller and the Gallys with Markov and Subban run a power play all night, even if they don't score. Which is also why I can't stand it when Desharnais and Briere are out there first more often than not instead...
- Pretty sure Johansen's shot broke the sound barrier.
- Carey Price is jumping hurdles! Send him to Rio!
- Considering all the abuse Gallagher takes, he's going to have to end up dead before these idiots call a penalty.
- There was a sequence where Lumbus shot from the point wide on purpose for a tip-in goal. Fortunately for us, Price went all Mentalist on the play and was in position before the guy could even get the puck.
- With a minute left and the game tied at 3, Pleky walked over the blue line and shot right through the defenceman. Bob never saw it coming.
- Second shorthanded goal of the game into an empty net. I'm glad you guys are over your allergy to them.
- Dubinsky was Hulking out after the game, throwing his equipment into his bag. No gatorade coolers were harmed though.
- Honestly what do you have to be angry about? The fucking refs basically gift wrapped this game for you and the Habs getting sloppy after Markov's goal helped them along...
- Diaz's ass saved the game blocking a shot into a yawning cage.

The greatest graying hair show on Earth!

Good news folks! Pacioretty is only out 3-ish weeks (give or take). Strained hamstring just like I thought it was.

Habs 2, Sens 3 (OT): MONSOOOOON

They had the game in the bag despite the usual Tim Peel shitshow. While I didn't think the Zibanenoonepronouncesyournamerightanywayjad's goal was enough to be called kicked in, there was a guy in the crease who interfered too much with Price to get him set back to save his team from an end of period of fail and that's probably where he was hurt. I saw enough of a tug in the wrong direction to think it was a problem, and when he moved on the final save he probably aggravated it.

Don't look now but Gonchar and Karlsson are still going for those two "icing" calls. The rest of the team are all back in the dressing room.

Oh and right now, Bourque, Pleky and Ryder should feel like high holy SHIT for floating around that empty net and even allowing that final sequence happen. Especially now that Price is injured.

And you can't really blame Budaj. The guys in front of him were just standing around. In OT. NOT THE BEST PLAN.

I also have to question once again Therrien's bench management. The only reason that maybe kicked-in goal happened was because he had the wrong people on. Halpern should have been there to backup Desharnais on the faceoff. Instead Gallagher was forced to take it and lost (duh). Also Galchenyuk scores and got benched for it.

Well, it's gonna be FANTASTIC when they end the series here at home. May as well. Now with Prust and Price hurt. They've tried hard enough. These playoffs were gravy after a 15th place finish in a transition year where they somehow managed to fight to first. It'll make them better.

Unless of course Therrien still benches Galchenyuk after he scores and doesn't let PK play the PK next season...

To make myself feel better, I'll laugh at the Canucks. At least we won a fucking game DESPITE the injuries. Last I looked, Canucks are quite healthy, just...mostly invisible.

If you don't like watching the Canucks fail at life, he's a cute photo of Toaster and his new toy to make you happy.

Habs 2, Sabres 3 (OT): I am in NO mood to take this right now

We're having a shit-ton of snow right now, which is WONDERFUL. I'm serious, I'm happy. I love snow. What I hate though? I have a dog in one arm ('cause the German Shepherd was in the parking lot and Toaster flips out when he sees her) and I'm getting my bags out of the car with my other, and then I close my door and POOF my car keys disappeared. (I had already locked the doors). I pushed the snow out of the way all over, I turned my car inside out, I dumped all my bags contents on the floor, I checked everywhere: Nothing. Thankfully living near my parents who have a spare key has it's perks, but holy shit my day just went from a pretty meh of a good-ish day to FUCK YOU UNIVERSE DIE EVERYONE. And Toaster wouldn't shut up until he finally realized how pissed off I was and I didn't need him barking in my face to throw his fucking ball.

And of course the Habs are playing like they're still guzzling all the Guinness left over from the St. Patrick's Day festivities and losing to the Sabres 2-0 and looking like they couldn't give two shits of a damn.

With the loss of my keys I'm in no mood to recap this shit fully. So, Habs missed FORTY SEVEN times. Steve Ott is fuckhead and someone should have punched him on his game winner in OT when he fell on Price right after. Someone should have punched Markov and told him HE DIDN'T NEED TO PLAY THE WHOLE PK IN OT, especially with the effort of a wet noodle. Gallagher is the real MVP. Lars Eller should be cloned so he could play all game. Colby Armstrong has enough games left to get 20 goals. Accountability apparently doesn't apply to Desharnais and I'm already pissed off with that contract if he's going to be lazy defensively and spread that laziness to Pacioretty. And what a bullshit phantom penalty call on PK, especially after not calling blatant shit like when Eller dragged someone down the length of the ice like he's a fucking sled.

Good thing I have chocolate, or this news that Bouillon's agent has spoken to Bergevin about extending his contract an extra year that just showed up on my timeline would have made me punch walls...

Missed 47 times.

Jhonas Enroth must have sprayed himself with Old Spice Hawkridge.

Habs just lucky the Jets beat the Bruins in regulation. Habs still first in the Northeast. Yay lose point.

PS. I now found the keys buried in the ice in the parking lot. But then Bergevin extended Cube's contract. WHY? Couldn't wait til fucking Summer and see if maybe someone else out there was available? Unless you trade him for Hal Gill to fix the shit penalty kill...

Habs 4, Sabres 5 (SO): I got a few things to say

I'm sorry. I can't even be angry with Ryan White.

Oh yes I've heard the "Ott is a master prick and did his job, White should have controlled himself better". All game long Ott was going after Gallagher, after Markov, after Gionta...kind of like that game in Dallas when he went after Kovy and Koivu and Greg Stewart punched him in the face. Only in that game, Price was the goalie and the penalty killers did their job.

Which brings me to this point: Maybe your penalty kill unit should have a guy named PK Subban on it? I don't know why he magically disappeared from the kill tonight. Having PK out there killing penalties for basically 46 seconds does not help your cause, especially in a back-to-back game. And yea Diaz had a good game. But seeing him channel his inner Hal Gill on a 5-on-3, while heroic, is not something you want to see regularly. Guess who was out there killing White's penalty? NOT PK.

It would also help if Budaj knew what a goal line stand was... Or how to close his giant 5-hole. Or use his glove to freeze the puck instead of allowing the puck to fly off him wildly in random directions.

So go ahead. Blame Ryan White for doing what all you fans were crying about, how no one ever stands up when douchnozzles take liberties on our players. Go ahead and ignore the fact that every time the Habs scored, DD's line was put out there and totally zonked out allowing the Sabres to score one right back. Go ahead and ignore the wet noodle attempt to kill the clock with the empty net staring in their face. Because you do not put your faith on Tim Peel to call Steve Ott for pitchforking Budaj into the net to allow Vanek to score. Because Tim Peel is a big twat.

Also would it kill you to win a faceoff? This team's most glaring wart. The other wart being how bad Desharnais and Cole have been. Pacioretty is starting to catch the suck bug.

In the future, Habs should send Galchenyuk out for all three attempts in the shootout. Just switch the jersey every time. My how big you've suddenly grown, Gionta!

Speaking of Gionta, he took a really stupid random penalty in the middle of the 2nd period that I can only describe by this photo....

Meow, bitches!

Habs 2, Sens 1: Little help from not-friends

Sens coach Paul MacLean is not pleased.

The NHL is a joke league with bush league officiating.

From calling "boarding" on Gorges as he went for an icing and got there first and got hit, to the "diving" penalty call on Cube when he had the fucking stick between his legs, to the "goalie interference" call on Silfverberg that recalled what should have been the game tying goal... Hell even Price was shocked that was called back.

You're one year too late in repaying us for all the shit you pulled last season, refs.

Brian Pochmara has outdone Chris Lee
- CBC now has Karlsson Cam! Oh and there was a game going on somewhere behind that.
- Guimauve had the "flu".
- Meanwhile, Pacioretty had his appendix removed through his navel and the only thing that pissed him off about it was that it gave him an outie. (Yes, the less invasive surgery takes less time to heal from. It's not like they sliced him open and stapled him back together).
- Welcome back assist too!
- Erik Cole backhander! PK has two assists now.
- If the Habs would stop shooting for the moon, it wouldn't have been this close...
- And Bourque borked the post.
- Chris Neil needs a punch to the face. Or a puck. I don't really care.
- And in the department of bad reffing, there's bad offsides! The Sens had three non-call GROSSLY offside attacks, while the Habs were called back on one that was onside. And Pleky was going to kill that linesman.
- Also probably the same douche who keeps throwing him out of the faceoff circle.
- I daresay we may finally have a coach who can talk to the refs about their shit officiating.
- Ref even gets in the way of breakaways.
- I name thee Galchenkov.
- Watching Prust kill the clock near the end there was great.
- Could have used a few curlers to get that empty net. Damn you friction!
- PJ Stock: "The small guys are able to make themselves small". WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!
- Kevin Weekes was attempting to explain things to PJ Stock. Next time I suggest bringing crayons. Maybe puppets. Lego would work too.
- Can't believe CBC gave Karlsson one of the 3 stars. He had no points and was a -1. Maybe it was for the 5 montages they made for him.
- Glad I didn't watch this on Sportsnet with the condescending Denis Potvin whine. It's not a fine vintage.

Habs have an insane record on Super Bowl weekend. Right now, looks like the Harbaugh with the Habs gloves on is winning.

(Note: He won).

Habs 3, Bruins 4 (SO): A point well earned

Despite some masochistic idea to pair Kraperle (sic) with Crampoli (sic) and thus making Benoit Pouliot look like fucking Mario Lemieux, to get a point in this game was a wonderful feat for this team. Down 3-1 and clawed back to a shootout. Yea, that's right. CHEER FOR THIS LOSER POINT YOU DROOGS. Why? Because holy crap... Tim Thomas would be a 3rd string back up behind this team.

Also Bruins have no idea how to hit anyone cleanly, take a hit, nor react to a hit without a scissor clamp on the hitter's legs or looking at the ref. Pretty sure Emelin exposed Thornton for the whiny bitch that he is. Also head snap? Didn't you call out the Canucks for doing that? All he was missing was the fainting hanky.

Enjoy your 10 game suspension, Marchand you clipping rat. (Assuming Jacobs hasn't paid off Shanaban fully, yet).

You know who's awesome? Ryan White. Welcome home. (Question: is it not automatic to get a misconduct if your jersey flies off during a fight? No clue why McQuaid didn't get one. Oh wait, he's a Bruin. Never mind).

I swear the two refs doing tonight's game had no clue how to handle the pressure.

So Patches scored. An angry Erik Cole scored. And Darche scored shorthanded while Habs were killing an accidental 4 minute high stick by Eller on a fanned shot. Apparently it was the first shorthanded goal they gave up this year. There's a lot to like about how the team played and hit and competed. Ending it in a shootout where no one could score, however, was a little aggravating. Pretty sure everyone will be salivating over Timmeh Thomas' BIG SAVE on PK's last shot of OT that was flubbled and going wide anyway.

Honestly I don't care about the fans cheering when Chara got hit in the face with the puck. It's not exactly without history... I mean can you really blame them? We're not exactly talking how the Bruins fans got up and cheered the clipping on Salo, or the hit on Miller... They still remember what happened, and how he got away with it, and how the fans of the Bruins acted and still act, and how the League basically ridiculed a kid nearly being paralyzed on the ice. Patches has moved on, and that's nice, he has to play and is a fantastic hockey player. However fans don't forget. And frankly a little more anger from Patches would do him a world of good on this team against them. But hey, a visor would have also prevented the puck from hitting Chara that high in the face... I call it Karma giving Chara a wink. Probably the best part of it all is Brad Marchand talking about classlessness. Cool story, bro.

Anyway, I liked the way Andrei and Gomez responded to the incidents at practice. Sure Andrei turned over the puck weakly. But he corrected himself, played hard, threw his body around well. And he nearly scored when his shot dribbled through Thomas only to get cleared by an alert defenceman. Not sure why Eller was benched for most of the game though. Match ups? Feeling? His penalty? He also threw a killer hit on Thornton.

Bonus: Don't have to see the fugly Bruins faces 'til next year. Small victories.

This rat is cute. Brad Marchand is not.

Habs 3, Bolts 4: I have an idea...

Hey guys!

Perfect plan! Once the whistle blows, shoot the puck into the net. Apparently it counts!

Regardless of it being a bad goal or not, you don't change the fucking rules on the fly while the ref is blowing the play dead and waving the goal off. Never mind on replay whistle blows with the puck on the line. But hey, let's allow another Sun Belt team to get everything it needs 'cause you know the money's tight and all. Sick of watching the Habs get hosed on the Intent to Blow call, but this is the first time I ever saw it overturned by someone two-thousand kilometers away in a mysterious room full of multiple screens including one with probably a dog on it (see HBO). Usually Habs score a goal on the Intent to Blow call, against Carolina. It's called every fucking time and screws us every fucking time.

And of course they never recovered from it. Suddenly defensively the Habs forgot what they were doing, while the Lightning miraculously remembered how to defend. Suddenly all the offense disappeared or went wide or deflected every wrong way while the Lightning were deflecting everything perfectly on net. And yes, the goal was shit but Price saved his team's ass more than enough times tonight to warrant a little extra help from guys who can cross the fucking red line...

Just prior to the bullshit goal that should have never counted, RDS was happily praising Cunney's 2-man-forecheck and the team's ability to beat the 1-3-1. They were cutting through the system like butter and I was left thinking: the Flyers couldn't do this? Clearly they were too busy throwing hissy fits over tactics instead of playing.

Whatever. Doing the two-step to either a playoff spot or Grigorenko. In the end I couldn't care less. I'm just sick of seeing the League change it's mind on the rules every time it involves this team. Whether it's Price holding the puck for nearly 8 seconds and not getting a whistle or Patches nearly dying on the ice... May as well just throw the fucking book out.