Forwards:
A. Kostitsyn - Plekanec - Pyatt
Pouliot - Gomez - Gionta
Moen - Moore - S. Kostitsyn
Maxwell - Metropolit - Darche

Halak (Habs Inside/Out)

Defence:
Markov - O'Byrne
Hamrlik - Spacek
Gill - Gorges

Lines from IceChips on TSN.ca

5-2 in GDT...I'm on fire!!

I'm worried because of two reasons:

a) Habs always play terrible against TB, Florida teams
b) Way too many french players getting jacked up to play in Montreal.

This is a huge 4 pt game..a win goes a long way towards a playoff birth. With the unknown length of injury to Savard in Boston, the habs have to put up pts in the standings, or start practicing with their 60 degree wedges.

TB has gotten 5 out of 6 points against the Habs this year, the boys had better play their hearts out.

GO HABS GO!!!!

Swim or SINK Habs. NOW is the time to begin the march towards the playoffs. Drop this game and risk everything.

GO GO

There will be a hatty tonight...not sure which player or which team, but there will be a hatty!

Tampa Bay lines:

St. Louis-Stamkos-Downie
Tanguay-Lecavalier-Purcell
Veilleux-Thompson-Parrish
Fedoruk-Szczechura-Bochenski

Hedman-Lundin
Ohlund-Foster
Meszaros-Walker

Niittymaki
Smith

Note that Malone will not play tonight, upper body injury so the Habs catch a bit of a break there.

AWESOME: On November 21st he had 1 Gino and 1 Apple against us and every game he seems to always be in our kitchen. He's not a habs killer but he's close enough.

BIG GAME and it promises to be a BIG TOP TIME!

GO HABS GO!

They should be energized by their last victory and come from behind, its the kinda story that teams of destiny write in the story line around one month out of the playoffs. The coaching staff know this and so do the vets on this team... they will come out hard tonight..

GO HABS GO!

5-3 habs! Its going to be WING night at the Cage!

GO HABS GO!

Wohoo, got my espn america channel working again today so tonight I can watch the game IF I can find a way to stay awake.

Big game. We need this one. GO HABS GO!!
Dalhabs....Vakna!

Great work by gomez, great finish by Metro (who some people still complain gets PP time).

Hammer sucks.

"Kill 'em! Kill the b@$t@rds!"
Charlie - Head Trainer of The Charlestown Chiefs from the movie Slapshot!

I like what I see

Go Go

Im starting to like Metro alot.

gomez is hot tonight... what a first period.

We in the drivers seat now with the worst lead in hockey! Keep DRIVING HABS!

If Gomez continue to play like this Im going to stop whining about his contract.



In sweden we allways say that 3-0 is the worst lead so lets get another one first.

ah hell.. there goes pleks...

knee on knee

he is walking.. hopefully just a charlie horse.

Yep, nobody do anything, it was just a knee on knee hit to 1 of your best team mates.

Tough call but both are correct in their own way. Don Cherry says 2 and I agree with him but on the other hand the 3-0 could really lead to more complacency by the players to protect the lead. A roof caves in on a 2-0 lead it hurts but 3-0 is far more demoralizing.

Pleks probably just got winded. Me hopes

Öhlund used his arm and leg to stop Pleks it seemed to me. Maybe shouldve been called. Hope its not serious.

Looks like Pleks is fine.

Great first period, but I feel like the Habs should have been able to bury a few more. Hopefully they don't ease up.

GO HABS GO!!!

RHINO CHARGE!

nice pass to Stamkos from Gill. Jeez

what a brain fart by gill.. nice save and he passes the puck right to the open guy on the far side. All he had to do was tuck that back to Halak to cover, or put it behind the net. Brutal

and the boys get it back.. good stuff.

Pouliot. TWO GOAL LEAD RESTORED!

Dont know why Obyrne was sent of though but maybe it was for the better to allow that 1-2 goal as a wakeup call.

Was the Rhino charge on Ohlund?

Yes.

Boys are flying and putting it to the net.

Keep going boys!

and then moen tips it in...

and hedman gets the free trip on Gomez in front of the ref...

the 2nd TB goal looked like the puck was on end on Walker's stick ie a knuckleball coming at Halak.............

Why are we allways so passive in our own end? Just looks like everybody is standing there watching.

It's getting there!

so that was interference, but all the tb trips and holds were all good.. I have a feeling TB will get many opportunities to tie this up.

I don't like the complete lack of shots we are taking, now that they have changed goalies...

Just put the damn puck on net please!

Good. He had his number. I dont like the penalty, but I like the message.

Yeh, it's too bad it ended up in a PP goal against, but you can blame Gill for that.

Checkin in from Ecuador, habs doin good since the break, viva los habitantes!

Good work Darche.. I miss Laps not a bit...

Yep good call on the wings!

Darche gets them chicken wings!

Someone predicted a trick... so Darche is the one getting it then?

Halak knocks rebound right to SK.

Darche is such a bonus this year!

Great game by everyone tonight! What I really like is that the boys are all pushing in the same direction!

I also like the fact that everytime T.B. got a goal, we got one not too long after! Even though we are leading by 3 goals, we aren't sitting on the lead!! Keep it up boys!

I think Martin's tie is 40% vomit.

Too bad he isn'T a couple of years younger!

And how do we keep them all? Bergeron too? Darche was excellent and he chased Fleury this year - not single handedly but his point blast was a handcuff goal that had odeur on it for Fleury. Now he does this? Not too shabby

Don't know if it's because it was Canadien Express but Pyatt was just invisible outhere.

Huge game by Moore again and Darche. I kike Moore more and more .

Moore, Moen and Darche show how professionnal hockey players matures up, understand their role keep it simple
is key to a team who want success.

Having 1-2 players like Lapierre, Maxwell, MaxPac 40 games this year running around doing a little bit of everything to try to please the coach,
the fans, themselves doesn't help the team.

It's all about the young players learning their role, their limits to help the team.

Lapierre ? well, even if Maxwell stinks nobody misses him. A wanna be pest style doesn't help him, if you'r a pest stand by and eat the punches.
He should come back with a hard working attitude, keep his head on the play and not everywhere else. He has enough speed and abilities to be
successful in the NHL but he has to focus on his game.

Well i would say that was a really good first 30 minutes of hockey, they got a little shakey the 2nd half of the game, could be they were tired from the road trip.

Gomez line has been carrying this team for a while now, where did all those Gomez bashers go. Those 3 are all over the place. Cammi coming back will add some balance.

Defense minus soem awfull turnovers were pretty solid most of the night, Halak bailed them out a few times late.

Anyone miss Lapierre? I can't even remember how many games he has been out.

The next task is not to over look the Oilers who have been playing much better lately.

Laps is out?

Here is a Gomez basher, his contract is horrible and something we should never have traded for. BUT he play good at the moment. Not 7.3M/year good but good enough to make me whine more about Hamrlik's contract and Spacek's contract.
And you cant say that Gomez contract is good can you?