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I know what you mean. I was at the Molson Centre (yes, Molson) when Audette was on fire, i think it lasted 4 games before the Habs curse set in. Too bad for Donald, he always has the effort and is fully willing to stand up for his teamates on most occasions, he just doesn't have the wrist strength anymore.

Spos just signed Tony Batista to fill a hole at 3B. The lineup is looking really nice right now, i like it better than last year's.

Merry Christmas to both of you too, and a happy new year!

Unacceptable from Quintal and Rivet tonight, Quintal just isn't fast enough and Rivet has no confidence anymore. It might be too late for them to switch up their recent horrible play. BTW i don't feel Bouillon had a bad game, he had a nice shot on the goal and he might have prevented a goal at the other end late in the game.

Certainly a worrisome start, but the Habs recovered nicely. Begin is out of the lineup again, but the Juneau line has been great so far and contributed a goal tonight. The other one was on the PP with Perreault finishing off a deflected Souray shot.

Not much you can say after that horrible game. I just can't wait till tomorrow's match to get this one out of my mind, just brutal.

I really think we need to rebound with a win here. We have some momentum going despite losing against Philly, a loss would end that momentum. Sounds sick, but im kind of sad to see Audette and Juneau back. If Audette is on a scoring line i am going to be extremely pissed off.

They had a couple of quick chances, but not sustained pressure. When we had a 2 minute powerplay towards the end of the game with the lead we had next to no offensive chances, except for a brief 5 second stint when Zed hit the post. We should have been trying to put the game away in this situation, but if i remember correctly we had little to no offense on that PP. I think that's what got me most pissed off. Then Zednik takes a dumb penalty and it burns us. Like i said, Bulis covered up for the mistake on a soft goal. But yeah, i agree it was a good effort tonight by the Habs, top line was getting great chances. Im not sure how we can give Bulis a more offensive role, but id love to see him on a scoring line, there just isnt any room. This is where i think we need a trade...

Well the habs pulled their typical sit-back-on-the-lead-get-burned-in-the-last-couple-of-minutes-style. At least Bulis managed to squeak in a soft goal at the end to win it and i think the Habs played pretty good for the most part, however we sat back on the lead and it almost killed us again...

Well i dont think Hainsey is a bust, yet. I certainly expected more out of him by now, but he certainly has time to pick up the pace and get back on track.

Pretty disappointing to lose it in the 3rd period. Rivet took a penalty, the announcers seemed to think it was a bad call, it's pretty debatable. Rivet should have been more careful though. Panthers then had a two man advantage with the extra attacker and finally beat Theo. Rivet received a ton of boos for the rest of the game.

I dont think we played overly well too. Got dominated and played very poor defense, we are just fortunate that most of our chances were ending up in the back of the net. Komi played very well IMO, was extremely physical in the corners, had to take one penalty late in the period when his man beat him, but other than that a pretty solid game for him.

Woohoo! 3-1 Habs after 1. Bulis, Dagenais and Ryder with the goals.

I personally thought Bouillon had a great game. Made a few nice hits, created some scoring chances and stood up for Theo when Sedin charged at the net (i know it was only Sedin, but hey, it's a start!) Bouillon played with the most heart of any habs last night for sure.

I'd like to write more often for HW, whatever you want to assign to me ill be fine to do. I can't see myself writing more than 2 articles per week and im gonna be pretty busy over Christmas, but other than that, ill contribute in any way i can.

Woohoo! 4-3 Habs victory! Zednik and Perreault with two goals apiece.

2-1 Habs after 2. Putting Rivet in front of the net on the PP seems to be working out, another PP goal down low. I'm loving this, i hope this starts a trend and we see more outdoor games because this is great.

Well The Habs dominated the MegaStars game but Edmonton got great goaltending. Hopefully we come away with the win in the real game tonight.

Woohoo! The day is finally here! Only 4 hours till MegaStars game! I think the Habs might be able to pull of an upset in the megastars game, but the Oil are still the favourites. Should be an amazing day for hockey.

HOLY CRAP! A ZEDNIK SIGHTING! 1-0 Montreal Zednik 3 (Ryder, Koivu) 2nd period.

Dammit. Offense went dry in the second half. Gotta second guess the great Don Matthews about putting in two rookie DBs. Not much else to say, Stokes killed us tonight, wasn't a factor at all except for one missed field goal return.

Well I'm usually one of the more patient fans, usually looking on the positive side of things. But i have to agree with your article, this team needs some serious offensive help to say the least. Clearly the start of the season was a mirage for us fans, because this team won't be scoring many goals with it's current personnel. Souray had a brutal game from what i saw, mostly highlights. And when you can pick out 4-5 bad plays by a guy in a highlight package, there is something wrong. He has had a great season thus far though, so it is a little more excusable coming from him, but still not something you like to see. I would expect Gainey to make a deal in the coming week or so, unless by some miracle we start scoring. I guess a couple positives would be that we are not giving up 35-40 shots consistently anymore, and Theodore has played great. We just need to provide him with 2 goals on most nights and he is going to get us at the very least 1 point. We just haven't been able to give him 2 goals that often, which is pretty sad.

WOOHOO! Second year in a row its gonna be the Als and Eskies, let's take another one!

WOOHOO! ALS ARE GOING TO THE CUP AGAIN!

It's gametime in about 30 min!