tomh009

Good thing too. Having to score five goals to hold a lead after two periods ...

Yes! Lehkonen!

If only all (or even most) of our trades were like this one!

PPG! Will the wonders ever cease!

I thought the third should have been possible for sure. We grew to expect Price to be superhuman, and we are paying him accordingly (far more than any other goalie is getting at the moment). He's not terrible by any stretch of the imagination, but he is not playing at the elite level we need him to be.

And we need the real Carey Price standing between the posts, please.

Yes. But we really can't pin this loss on him. (It's not over yet but the fat lady is warming up ...)

And Vasilevskiy has our number.

They did all the right things in the second period, I think. Outshot TB 17-7, outhustled them and even outdid them on the face-offs. Nothing to show for it, but hopefully we'll get a bounce or two in our favour in the third.

18 shots by TB -- and I think 15 of those were in the second half of the period. I hope Julien can get their heads back into the game for the second.

Meeting your expectations so far? Domi's effort aside, I thought the PP was very good, though without a goal. This team is making it very easy for me to like them!

OK, so is the third period online anywhere so that I can watch it tomorrow?

Woah ... had to go do a work conference call so I missed all the fun in the third! Very happy to see they turned it around, though. Still mystified how we had three so completely different periods in this game.

We had 19 shots in the first, eight in the second. The same kind of second-period letdown we have already seen a few times this year.

Not as soft as the ones I let in, no. But he wasn't making the $10M/year-level saves, either.

Those damned two-goal leads!

Nine goals in 12 games so far, that's pretty damn good value. Realistically ... well, let's hope he can play as strongly all season, even if the scoring pace is bound to drop off.

It's getting crowded in the Habs' penalty box.

My bad, I was skimming the NHL pages and I apparently grabbed is last season's stats without thinking. Sorry about that.

... and that's all she wrote.

That was really dumb. He got lucky there was no blood.

Hmmm? Looking at the season stats on nhl.com, it looks like Hudon 6 PIM, Peca 2 PIM, Deslauriers 4 PIM (including tonight). Is that including Scherbak (8 PIM) and Shaw (16 PIM)?

Was Price screened on that shot? It didn't look like he was.

I'm not happy about another Dallas power play ...

Radulov called for interefence on Alzner ... not that I mind a power play, but he pretty much was an innocent bystander there.