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Rats! Not much Price could do about it, coverage issue. Good game though.

Yep. No Kovalev either. Hell of stop by Price!!

Off-speed, scary shot.

Boullion really shouldn't be forechecking..................STREIT!!!!!

Bah!...........Alriiiiight!

The reception is pretty good here too.....better than RDS's cable feed last year!

I think Price will go in. He was kept up after the last round of cuts and there won't be another pre-season opportunity for Carbo to see him in action.

Don't know. Carbonneau said he might switch in the third, but all I'm getting now is Rogers and Senators propaganda.

Breezer looked like a real defenceman there for the last couple of minutes.

Gorges from Chichura......very nice!

Iceman - Love the mouse, I'm using the exact same thing.

I don't know that I would call Damien Cox a pillar of "consistently responsible journalism" but he gives a very cogent and informative summary of the habs on espn: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/stor...&id=2808340

Looks like he's been paying attention. "A couple of weeks ago, following that Sergei Samsonov lowlight in Atlanta, I wrote that it was time to blow up the Canadiens and start over with the youngsters. Truth is, the process was already under way. So far, so good." http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news...837&k=88964

Excellent thread!! Helps combat the negativity and gave me a real good chuckle. For my part I am not going to wear my habs hat again until they win, and I will wear my habs sweatshirt for this evenings game. Go Habs Go!

Higgins, Koivu, Kovalev Samsonov, Latendresse, Ryder Perezhogin. Bonk, Johnson Begin, Plekanec, Kostitsyn Markov, Souray Boullion, Dandenault Rivet, Komisarek Huet This assumes that Latendresse can play center - I really don't know if he can or not, but it might be worth a try. He certainly can't lose any more face-offs than Plekanec did last night. If not then change the second and fourth lines like so: Samsonov, Plekanec, Ryder Kostitsyn, Begin, Latendresse Could be fun.

Terrific comeback - thanks Saku for almost singlehandedly elevating the play of the whole team. Some things we could do to make these games a little less nail biting: Switch Ryder and Kovalev - Kovalev plays well with and draws inspiration from Saku and if Ryder is not going to do anything he might as well do it with others who aren't doing anything. D-men: Stop panicking and icing the puck every time there is pressure in the defensive zone. Forwards: If you insist on dumping the puck in the offensive zone CHASE THE DAMNED THING!! Maybe they should have a twenty minute scrimmage before the game starts to get the shabby first period play out of their systems.

I don't think that what Higgins thinks should enter into it at all. As has been stated in another thread Higgins has his contract coming up and he will be just fine. But I believe Gainey and Carbs see what this kid can be and feel that he can do it fairly quickly - maybe even quicker than Higgins who was fairly invisible in the early going last year.

Give Lats a little more time. He's been playing a little better every game. The last couple of games he's been playing the body well and creating opportunities. He looks more and more comfortable all the time. I don't think it's going to be too long before he starts playing the way he did to garner all the attention in the first place.