TurdBurglar
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Montreal is shooting themselves in the foot. Too many stupid plays that kill their breakouts.
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Interesting stat:
Game 1 hits: 31 - 24 for Ottawa
Game 2 hits: 37 - 26 for Montreal
The difference in the play of Ottawa's defense was like night and day. Saw quite a few times last night where they made pressure bad plays in their own zone because they knew they were getting hit. Game 1 was completely different, Ottawa looked cool, calm and collected once they had the puck in their zone. Even more proof of this was White's goal, he did hardly anything, poked at the puck twice, but it was a bad, pressured pass from Karlsson, whom Anderson didn't expect anything less than a good in-zone pass, caught him off guard. Loved the physical play of the Habs last night.
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So who does this Price guy think he is? Great bounce back game!
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This game is going to be great. This morning Prust told the media he hopes Gryba doesn't even get suspended. We can all guess why. Gonna be a rough night at the bell center tonight!
Dumont needs to headhunt Turris now to even things up.
P.S. Prust called MacLean a "bug-eyed fat walrus." Found that inappropriate yet funny.
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Gionta and Patches are out for game 2. Only bright spot to the is we will have 2 line to get in a hit their defense. Still need to get people in from of the f'ing net.
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I see all kinds of line combos, but DD HAS to go on the 3rd line and get his minutes limited. He hasn't played well since his extension and it's time to group good players that will play with good players that are playing. Sadly I'm not sure Chuky is the answer at center, it's worth a shot. I liked the Wolvie - Chucky - Gallagher combo, put White - DD - Gionta and limit their minutes until they decide they want to play better.
For christ sakes, get someone with size in front of the net AT ALL TIMES. Wolvie, Bourque, Prust, Moen, White can all do this. I told my buddy last night we need to put Prust - White - Moen out with Markov and Subban. Get 2 to stand inf front of the net and let Markov Subban and the 3rd set up some bombs from the point. Dirty goals is the way we can win this series.
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Got a buddy coming over to watch the game. I won't be here during the game. So...
Let's get em boys!
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This game will set the tone for the series. Ottawa have some of their injured guys back, ones that "experts" said would lead Ottawa to a better position in the post season. We all know what injuries can do to a team, so taking this game lightly will be a huge mistake. That being said, this series and this game is going to be determined by goaltending. As much as I hate to say it, it depends on if Price can be the Price we all know he can be.
Lastly, in the words of PK Subban; the whole team "needs to play like Gallagher." Sums it up pretty well. Wonder how Gionta feels about that, seeing as before this season he was that guy.
Just read lolEklund's prediction of the series, point it out for this little gem of a line; "I don't know why, but a hunch that Lars Ellers will be a factor in this series." Hasn't he been a factor all season? What would change now?
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Odd, I'd rather Halpern's faceoffs over what White brings. Unless MT is planning on trying to grind it out.
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Sens are a strong, well-coached team with the most potent offensive defenceman in hockey and no obvious weaknesses. Unlike us, they made the playoffs last season and repeated the trick despite an injury-decimated lineup. So it's not surprising that they tend to get the edge among critics. If we had not had our late-season swoon and if Price had not had a disastrous April, we'd probably be reading more balanced assessments.
It's gonna be tough, though. My instincts tell me Sens in 6/7. I've underestimated these Habs all along, no point in stopping now
Last I checked we have THE most potent offensive defensive core in the NHL. While we don't have Karlsson, we have a more balance defenseman in Subban, who isn't as strong offensively (arguably) as Karlsson, he's better defensively and hit way more often.
Also everyone is pointing out Ottawa's defence is big and that is going to be our downfall. Whats the way to counteract big defensemen? Speed and dump and chase, make them skate and tire them out. We have the type of team to beat their type of defensemen. I'm confident in our team to beat Ottawa.
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Is Halpern hurt? Practice lines indicate he won't be starting game 1.
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Probably a bar fight. Minor details being blown out of proportion. Few guys in Ontario saw Beaulieu and his dad, knew Montreal and Ottawa were meeting in the playoffs, talked smack, got their asses handed to them and cried to the police. See if I'm not right.
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So predictions?
Game 1: OTT 2 MTL 3 - This one may go to OT, first round first game jitters, gonna be a 1 goal game
Game 2: OTT 1 MTL 3 - Price and the rookie are going to settle in, one or both rookies(Chucky & Gally) are going to get their first playoff point.
Game 3: MTL 0 OTT 2 - Anderson is going to be fantastic, we're going to outshoot the Sens, but not get any.
Game 4: MTL 4 OTT 3 - We're going to get a 2 or 3 goal lead and see it dwindle, but we will hold on. This may be overtime.
Game 5: OTT 5 MTL 1 - On the ropes, Sens are going to have a huge game, pinning us in our zone most of the game.
Game 6: MTL 4 OTT 1 - Tired from the burst of effort to stay alive in the previous game, Sens will play a good game, but not get many real good chances.
4-2 Montreal wins series.
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I think most of my reservations on Eller were from him being in a bad situation and playing like a player in that situation, not like the player he could be. Last couple of years he was drilled into defensive form, in the long run it looks like this is going to help more than hinder. He was also stuck with Andrei Kostitsyn, streaky at best, and expected to produce points. So stuck in a defensive role with AK47 and Moen, and expect to produce even when AK47 wasn't, which was often.
He started this season on the same track he was on last season, but to my surprise after 1 healthy scratch and a few injuries, he turned it around big time. He produced more than DD, nearly as much as Pleks and was on pace for 53 point if he played every game of an 82-game season and solid defensively to boot. Eller's play is making the DD contract look bad TBH. DD signed his contract and disappeared.
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Gonna have to say Eller. I was all for shipping him out after the first 10 game. Boy was I wrong.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/#ixzz2Rrh8O559
It's been a long time coming and frankly about time a North American athlete comes out. Now the "seal is broken" it may encourage more players to be themselves.
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Thursday Habs Sens game 1
According to Gord Miller
Seriously? So we're going to be a full game behind the rest? Playoffs start Tuesday.
BTW Thursday night RDS was reporting during the 3rd period Montreal will play Tuesday night because they were either finished 2nd or 4th.
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Only bad news is I won't get to watch the first round in English. Either way Montreal was playing Tuesday night, since it's not going to be Maple Leafs, it's not going to be on CBC.
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I still think we should be resting our top guys. I do want the division too but we're playing Toronto. They know if they win they have us in the first round. They get the lead, they play punishing hockey. Attempting to injure and rough us up for the series against us, it's win/win for them. Why take the chance of our top guys getting hurt for a chance, and not a great one, to get the division. It would be different if it was win and it's ours, but it's not. Boston has a good chance to get the division whether we win against Toronto or not.
I'm just saying it would be foolish to risk our important guys against a team that will have the mentality of hurting us as it will probably directly help them. All for a slim chance to improve our position. I would be really surprised if Carlyle doesn't dress more goons for this game just in case.
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SO barring a major breakdown, we have home ice locked up, making the Toronto game mean nothing to us Saturday. Should we be resting our top guys and playing all of our AHL callups instead of our regular lineup?
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So Jets come out for the 3rd, eliminated, they know it. Refs come out in the 3rd knowing this game is a playoff team vs a non-playoff team. You'd think they would be strict to keep this game from getting out of hand and the Jets not hurt the Habs players before the playoffs. Instead Eller take an unprovoked cross-check to the head and no call. Get job refs!
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In our zone our forwards are playing too deep. Causing slow to non-existant breakouts and when our defense chips the puck up their too far back to get the puck all the way out. I think the is forcing more icings and killing our transition game.
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Aside from the fact they're trailing, that was a pretty good road period. The Habs have done well to match the Jets' intensity and were starting to control the play in the latter stages. Only being down 1 after 1 is considered progress right about now.
Say what you will about Desharnais' play but he is on fire on the draw right now. He was 70 something percent last game, 5/6 so far tonight. He's teetering on the edge of 50%, a strong night tonight might get him there (that would give them three centres at or above 50%).
I'd rather him lose every draw and play like he's capable of rather than be on fire on draws and play like he's playing now. He's not playing his high-intensity game in the offensive zone and not playing defense. I yelled at the TV after our last PP when DD skated off. He coasted from their blue line to the bench, while the Jets had the puck and skated past him in our zone before he got to the bench. I mean seriously, if you don't give enough shits to get to the bench, then don't even come to the rink anymore.
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All we need a 1 point in the next 2 games to clinch home ice advantage. Would love to see 2 wins, but all we *NEED* is 1 point.
Game 3, Habs vs Sens, 7 PM
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I'm not sure about anyone else, but I suspected the game was going to end like it did after the first 10 minutes or so. IMHO it all started with the Greening shot to Subban when Subban was trying to check Greening. Subban was going in for a hard hit and Greening lead with his hands and stick. Now while this is minor and happens from time to time, the problem was the ref, whom was standing 10 feet away looking directly at it, didn't call it. Less and a minute later I believe it was Neil who slew-footed Price, again with a ref standing 10 feet from it. To all the players and coaches, they saw the refs were going to be real loose with the calls, it set a tone. If they can do it to us, we can do it to them. Ottawa continued with this behavior and Montreal started. Then it all went south. The reason being the refs didn't want Montreal to be giving the retaliation, so they started to call Montreal for everything, then Ottawa got out of hand, and the refs called Ottawa for everything. Then nobody could get their frustration out on anyone, so it blew up. the refs really needed to either let them play or call it tight, not start one then do the other.
This was coupled with the fact the Habs didn't come to play last night. Making dumb plays, trying to pass though players when a better option was open. Not forechecking, and everyone avoided the front of the net like a plague. How many times last night did we see 2 at the point, 2 below the goal line and 1 floating at the top of the circles? Then the puck would get sent to the front of the net for the guy who wasn't there? I can remember after the first 2 periods when they announced the shot total for that period and just looking at the TV like a dummy. No way in hell we were keeping up with Ottawa in shots. I think Pacioretty and Gionta should of stayed out of the lineup, as we clearly did better with checkers in the game. I know I'm sounding like a broken record here, but DD really really needs his ice-time limited or sitting out. The only time I notice him lately is when he's being thrown out of the faceoff dot. That goes for all 3 games so far. Ryder isn't playing any better, making foolish mistakes like skating the puck to his teammates.
Game 3 we need to come out hitting hard and hitting clean. Get our forecheck working again and make smart decisions with the puck. Three simple things that we weren't doing last game, but we did in Game 2.
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