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Lost in all of this is...... I’m glad Scherbak is safe. May he prove the nay sayers wrong. We have decent depth. Plekanec came in well rested and looked better than at least two other centers who were ahead of him on the depth chart. May Scherbak do the same. I’d also be fine with De la Rose clearing.

I liked Wolverine.

Lehkonen was slacking out there tonight. 0 points.

How’d you like those Armia dangles, Don?

Petry’s Fine on the PP 23 PPP last year Same as Klingberg, Ristolainen and Suter More points than Byfuglien, Letang, Doughty, Josi, Karlsson etc.

Damn Domi

Tatar accepted my challenge.

Some thoughts after the first period: - Despite him having played well, I wish Danault were a true top line center - I’ve been quietly hard on Drouin over the past year but I thought he hustled well in the first - Imagine Jordie Benn were a defensive version of Jamie Benn, skill wise - Lehkonen does a good job of getting to the front of the net - I want to see more from Tatar as our first line LW - I’m going to find myself yelling “shoot” quite often this year when Domi has the puck in the offensive zone

I was going to wait until the intermission but I’ll say it now at 0-2: I’m not happy with DeSmith having a shutout against us thus far.

Didn’t take long.

Bob Cole already mentioned that Niemi has one shutout in his career against Pittsburgh prior to the game. Not a good start.

In order for the Habs to have as many goals as the Leafs after 5 games, we’d have to average 9 goals a game over the next two outings. The leafs have 25 after 5 games while we have 7 goals after 3 games. The Leafs have 20 goals against however to our 7. It seems at this early stage that completely different systems are being applied by both teams but come playoff time, I think Toronto’s defensive stats will come back to bite them. They’ll lose another 7 game series this year.

I don’t hear another voice saying it but on the other end of the spectrum, I personally have high opinion of Scherbak’s future. It’s not only that De La Rose is a boring player, but Scherbak will be quite the player. Time will tell.

That’s what Pittsburgh said. Murray is suffering from a concussion due to our 5-1 win over them.

Go Niemi Go