Help? Please? Not in response to the game actually. I thought the team played fairly well considering the tough times/semi-slump going around and who was rolling into the Phone Booth this afternoon. But help us because Robert Lang is most likely out for the rest of the season and probably just witnessed his career over as an errant skate apparently sliced his Achilles tendon. To lose Lang like this is a terrible blow to the team as there's absolutely no one who could replace him... And we, the fans, were hoping regardless of his age that he'd want to be resigned for next season. Now this doesn't look like it'll happen, unless he makes a miraculous recovery like Chipchura did for a similar injury (of course Chipper is over 10 years his junior) or the injury itself is not as severe as it sounds. Nevertheless, send us a center capable of replacing him! But my hopes are minimal as there doesn't seem to be one like him out there!
Droping like flies...again...
- Injury number 2: Gui! is apparently now down with a shoulder injury. FUCK! Basically he joins his brother with that (who just went down with a shoulder injury as well).
- Almost an injury: scary went Dagger was slammed into the boards by Chara by a borderline hit from behind. Thankfully he came back.
- The game could have easily gone either way, but the injuries in the 3rd didn't help the Habs.
- Those throwback barber pole sweaters are AWESOME.
- Price is pretty much back into his usual 2GAA.
- With the loss of key men, the rest will really need to step up.
- I'm waiting for the day when Thomas is out waving to the crowd as the first star and all those horseshoes fall out of his ass like that casino ad on TV.
- Ryder still hasn't scored a goal in the Bell Center since last March...
- Patches got long legs. It's pretty easy to trip him because of them. He'll give us lots of powerplays too.
- Alex Henry, first shift, checked a man and then had to fight him.
- I hoping Kovy steps up more. I mean yesterday the ref made a quick whistle for no reason right when he was about to do something (I call it the OMG KOVY HAS THE PUCK whistle). Today it was two rather borderline penalties, with the second having the ref totally miss the fact he was punched in the head... But yea, I guess benching him could anger him enough to tell him to put his ass in high gear.
- Like the other goals against, the error with the empty net gapping wide was probably the most disappointing moment of an otherwise good game. (Minus the injuries). Bad decisions were what really lost the game.
- Fans exploding everywhere for the wrong reasons piss me off, by the way.
So if I'm Bob Gainey and I can't trade for a new center, who gets the callup? Chipper isn't exactly Robert Lang, though he's good for the PK like Lang...maybe Yannick Lehoux? But what a letdown. Awesome Plan B, gets the Molson Cup, and now could probably be finished forever... I'm so disappointed. I liked Robert Lang...