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If playoff overtime hockey could be bottled and injected into veins, it would only be available in the darkest of back alleys.

Funny moment. My son had a birthday party to go to tonight. I brought the iPad and after dropping him off, my wife, sister, and I grabbed dinner at a restaurant. We were watching the third, and when the Habs tied, we all yelled out in celebration. Everyone in the place turned and looked at us...you could hear a pin drop! We paid our check, picked up my son, and the Habs scored in OT on the way home, with my son watching in the back seat. Wooooo!!

That was certainly a memorable game for my first ever game thread. I had a feeling the timing was right to come out of hibernation in the area. What a time to score one of our seemingly rare last minute goals. I have Czech ancestry and so I'll always have a soft spot for Plekanec although the decline is real (a la Brad Richards near the end) and I was happy to see how much the goal meant to him. I had to miss the second and third periods because I had appointments but I rushed home when I saw that we were in overtime and caught from 3:30 left in overtime. I saw Lehkonen have a great chance and Radulov score the winner. Huge win and let's hope it continues into Sunday.

440 am, Work at 9. Worth every minute!

Best game ive ever been to live.

Wasn't that McSorley's stick?

What a shift by Pacioretty to create the winning goal. TREMENDOUS intensity. It's probably emotional exhaustion talking, but did anyone else think of Game 2 of the '93 finals? That was another game where last-second heroics pulled the fat from the fire and prevented the team from hitting the road 0-2. (Of course, this only round one, but still - shades of!)

let's give CJ some credit...he pulled out all the stops. shortened the bench when he had to...turned on the blender big time. did all he could as a coach to pull out the win.

hard fought win, i thought they were toast. Need to address that 3rd d pairing, they are terrible and will get exposed big time in NY with the last change

That's dope

To be fair, it's hard to replace the skill level of Galchenyuk on that 4th line...

Chucky seems to have found the fire

Ride the high, strike early in OT.

One bounce and we're back

20 minutes left in the season for this team.. Before the playoffs for the first time since hockey pools started to my I didn't choose any habs. Absolutely guts me out since being a lifelong fan. The other team I didn't choose any players was St Louis. Reasons: 1. Montreal and St Louis are the only 2 teams in playoffs that don't have one single C over 50 points. 2. Danault..as your first line centre simply won't make you a contender ( awesome 3 Rd line C with a contender) 3. Shaw at C ? 4. The only player that is a C and avg per points total to get over 50 pts plus.. Is on 4 th line winger 5. Bergeron goes and year after year guts slow , 4th liners well documented everywhere. He over pays in contract and in trade ( Shaw...etc...) 6. I stated on Weber. Great on winning teams with great players. On a contending team that would take team over top to win it all. It's not in MTL 7. Not playing young players with skill or limiting them or buried in the AHL. Look around the league and the young players all around ( granted they are high picks with teams that have been basement dwellers for years .) But they found a sound team to bring pieces together.. KEY " BEST" regardless of their ethnicities.. ( no need to state which teams. Here..obvious ) 8. World has changed.. One has to go with philosophy of going with best possible team in management and coaching. So what happens Julien gets fired and Vigneault gets rehired .. Its a vicious circle recycle all because of have to being French speaking. So MB gets fired.. Who they go get : Carbonneau..get my point? 9. This team is reactive. Pacs, et al.. Look lost and confused. After the second goal. Cameras zoomed in on Price. His eyes said it all. I see it that he lost something.. Like he knows this team isn't good enough Now what: Trade more draft picks for Shaw type players and Lose opportunity to get the top OHL scorer that habs could have drafted? Shaw worked in Chicago because they had Kane and Toews and all. Weber works in National team for same reason. They take a team over the top that already have the high end talent. This team doesn't. You are only as strong as your middle.. DANAULT PLEKANEC SHAW OTT Doesn't cut it. Not even close. This team is on a downward spiral in few years they will be the basement dwellers. Ditch the got to have French speaking requisite to coach / manage team. It they do and are the best qualified. Great if not. Pick the best And rebuild and start to regroup. Or else this team will be ” pretend contenders ) finishing in the 5 to 12 spot. Perhaps win a round and make playoffs most of the time. If in today's hockey works. It's a business..fine.. But you need strong scouts..management and build . Take a look at the trades in past this team has made..many used to be high draft picks or some sort of pedigree. But have underachieved. I can list the names during off season on this topic. Well let's hope for the so called comebacks from the regular season where they led the league in comebacks. Perhaps they can tie it up. Hoping the do. But the issues are there.. Let's pull for the win..20 minutes to go

I could go on a rant here about Bergevin, but there's 20 minutes left to save the season. Let's see if these bums can regroup and come back before pulling out the pitchforks.

@realDonaldTrump is that you?

I don't care that you don't care, but it is one reason he is being used a lot by Julien at centre for sure. If he was 42.7% as some other Hab centre is (0-2 in game 1) I think it plays into it as well.

2 minutes to doomsday

I'm starting to think players should be starting to take the game in their hands again. I'm totally on board with a mentality of; you run price, you lose teeth and/or consciousness, then someone flies shoulder first into your netminder. This Methot/Crosby thing has me pissed beyond belief. Took the top off of Methots finger and not even a penalty. Someone needs to step in, knock Crosby the fark out, concuss him and look into a camera and say, "player safety isn't being player safety, so I'll serve my 8 games happily knowing I did what they should of." Maybe then the NHL would be a little more serious about some of the happening around the NHL.