BCHabnut

How is this about goalies. I am starting to get agitated with you guys. Both goalies are playing well. Good. Not great, but good enough to get wins on a good team. Give it up already! The last three games had nothing ...Nothing...NOTHING...NOTHING to do with goaltenders. Look at the rst of the game. Look at our defense. Look at how inept our first line is with turnovers, look a multitude of places and you will find problems. Look at our goaltending and you will find overall adequacy. The only games where the goaltending was superb were the first two! And those games were played by Price. I am sick of this conversation. Martin is suposed to teach a system where we aren't hemmed in for long stretches at a time. This is the team's biggest failure. So far it is a failure.

I think a leaf will actually have to bring a gun on the ice and shoot a habs for us to get a power play.

Wow, Habs 3, refs 2, after 2 Periods. Pathetic. 2 minutes for talking to Komi...2 minutes for getting high sticked...2 minutes for getting punched in the face! I mean wow. Just wow!

Me neither. Booze was a major part of my diet back then. That and cheetos.

Really? Wow. I am almost done with this board. I can't believe that after the horrible 6 periods, 6 periods with two or three good shifts and you can say that Price was the difference? I mean give your head a shake! This game would have been out of reach if Price had not been so good in net. He is also a 3rd defenseman in special tams...PK and PP. You, Brobin and JackP are completely high if you pin this one on Price.

Price looks great. He had no chance on the screen shot. Poor Kosty is snake bit bad.

What's with letting guys loose in the slot lately?

Shudder

I laugh at how everyone is calling the Plex Cammy line the second line. Aren't they the top two scorers on the team?

Like someone else said, When he is mellow about it, we all question why he doesn't have more fire. "You think Roy would take this in stride?" we say. When he gets pissed off we say "Wow, What a spoiled brat. He should put the team and winning first!"

Kinda funny how Price becomes the main topic fr a game he didn't even touch the ice for.

You aren't kidding there. Everyone was scared of the puck tonight. I hav never seen that many giveaways in a single game. Poor old Martin ran his pen out of ink tonight.

They sure exposed our slow D and inability to chip the puck. I have also noticed that when the puck is on the right side, we can't get it out. No right handed D.

I'm done!

Wow I was accidently involved in one of your slaggings (which I admitted my mistake and apologized) and Fanpuck fixed it up. I recomend you stick to the topic and quit getting personal all of the time.

The best way, now that the Isles game has passed, is to play Halak tonight and in Chicago, and dress Price against Toronto. As for tonight's game, I thought the team looked lethargic against the Isles. I bet half of them are sick. I precict a loss. Hopefully it's not a blowout. Go Habs Go

That's a tough call BTH. I've seen Lats drive guys through the boards behind the net. I do know what you mean about Kosty though. When he is fired up, his open ice hits are really mean.

I think Gill is doinga hell of a job. He is a 6th or 7th defenseman. Him and Mara have really impressed. When he left the front of the net to help his D partner, that is exactly what happened to Pronger on the Draper goal that knocked the Ducks out of the playoffs last year. Sometimes it is helpful, and other times you get stung. I honestly haven't seen too many huge gaffes out of him. He's better than the cube or breezer. Gill is slow, but plays in a way that he is effective. Ogre like but effective. Spacek had a much better game today too. It's funny that the good defensive plays he made were on the left side of the ice.

Anyone else nptice how effective Moen is at taking people out of the play? He doesn't hit to crush the guy, but uses good body position and sort of rubs the guy out, so he is completely away from the play. I like him way more than Kostopolous. And I really liked Kosto a lot.

I work with many people that my company recruited from other counries. One East Indian that I work with is extremely smart and proud. One day my boss asked us if we had enough hydrogen pressure to continue running the refinery. I said we had just enough to "Get by." Later that day I was surfing the net and googled something that started with "G" the first thing that popped up was "get by, meaning slang". He had no idea what I had said. I understand that comunication may not even be close to the problem, but I tend to cut a guy some slack when it comes to learning in a place where he doesn't know the language. Having said that, this may have nothing to do with the his slow starts. If a "GOOD" deal came along, they may want to consider trading him. If not, hope and pray that he figures it out.

What a flat game. We made Biron look good with low percentage shots. We deserved most of those penalties, but man what a lot of non calls on identicle plays by the Isles. Lats and Chips both impressed with work ethic. Chipchura looked very good again tonight. I didn't keep track, but it sure looked like we were poor on the faceoff. I am concerned that they may have been sick. To the guys bitching about Begin... Metro is 10X the player that Begin is. Moen is 10X the grinder that Kostopolous is too. If it weren't for Halak's play in the first, this would have been a loss for sure. In Jaques we trust! This game should never have gone to ot. That was a blatant high stick by Streit. Furious was me.

I would trade Spacek. You aren't going to trade Hammer and his big contract. Spaceman has not impressed me in the least. He usually plays on his left side though doesn't he? That's why it hurts to have O'byrne down. I think Spacek on the left side might be a much different player. I wold support trading Hammer, I just don't think it will happen with that big contract. +1 on Bergeron. Big value for the dollar right now.

Oh hellz ya. What impresses me about Gionta is the way he plays without the puck. He is by far the best of the oompa loompas when they don't have the puck. I wish Martin would give him the C already. They will probably wait until after the next set of home games and give it to him.

Halak looked no better than Price in the last two games. He did win, and the coach does make the decision. I have no problem with playing the guy whose winning. I like to see the team win regardless of who is playing where. What if Chips and Kosty find chemistry. I expect Stewart to have a good game tonight. He should be hungry.

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