DON Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Montembeault is starting. Hope Covid lineups make for some interesting hockey at least. https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/pregame-lines-defense-pairings-and-updates-december-28/c-329248172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab29RETIRED Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, DON said: Montembeault is starting. Hope Covid lineups make for some interesting hockey at least. https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/pregame-lines-defense-pairings-and-updates-december-28/c-329248172 That’s an ugly looking lineup!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs Fan in Edmonton Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 6 minutes ago, hab29RETIRED said: That’s an ugly looking lineup!! It most certainly is. There is no way Tampa goes into this game not being over confident so maybe, just maybe ......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoh2009 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 not very hopeful the Habs will win their second in a row... but more unlikely things have happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomh009 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 2 hours ago, hab29RETIRED said: That’s an ugly looking lineup!! I think a grand total of four players from last spring's playoff run (Suzuki, Gallagher, Caufield and Romanov). Two more that played fairly regularly in the regular season last year (Kulak and Evans). Well, we did say we wanted to give ice time to the kids. Although I do expect to see the top line (Drouin, Suzuki and Gallagher) playing well over 20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 "The Lightning won’t be without their own COVID issues. They’ll also be short their starting goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and backup Brian Elliott. Along with the goalies joining coach Jon Cooper in COVID-19 protocol, defencemen Mikhail Sergachev and Andrej Sustr, forwards Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Anthony Cirelli, and assistant coach Rob Zettler will also be keeping them company. Joining their taxi squad will be Syracuse Crunch’s defencemen Andrej Sustr and Darren Raddysh. But, they’re lucky enough to still have their leading goal-scorer, Steven Stamkos (14G, 16A) so they’ve got that going for them. The Habs also still have their leading goal-scorer, Nick Suzuki (6G, 12A)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 3 hours ago, tomh009 said: I think a grand total of four players from last spring's playoff run (Suzuki, Gallagher, Caufield and Romanov). Two more that played fairly regularly in the regular season last year (Kulak and Evans). Well, we did say we wanted to give ice time to the kids. Although I do expect to see the top line (Drouin, Suzuki and Gallagher) playing well over 20 minutes. Id say Evans was a big part of the playoff team. He missed some games due to a concussion but he played all the leaf games and cup final games. He played way more than romanov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 Hope for a 10-9 game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 Pezzetta!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXx..CK..xXx Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 ConMichael McPezzetta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbhatt Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 God Bless you diehards for continuing to watch, especially with a WJC game on right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commandant Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Just now, sbhatt said: God Bless you diehards for continuing to watch, especially with a WJC game on right now. The WJC game is not competitive, or id watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 8:39 for Romanov. 0 shots for Suzuki/Gallagher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, DON said: 0 shots for Suzuki/Gallagher. I thought both had decent first periods, especially early on. Happy for Vejdemo to get one, he's on a two-game NHL scoring streak now as his only other NHL goal came in his last game played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs Fan in Edmonton Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 The winning streak continues tonight, every once in a while David beats Goliath and tonight is the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXx..CK..xXx Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Just now, Habs Fan in Edmonton said: The winning streak continues tonight, every once in a while David beats Goliath and tonight is the night. We’ll see what happens. Tampa is definitely the favourite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Tough call on the disallowed goal on Gallagher - there's definitely contact and for some refs, it doesn't matter if it was caused by the defender or not. I don't think the contact stopped Lagace from stopping it but I'm not shocked it didn't count. The penalty kill has been decent tonight and Montembeault made some big stops in the second to keep Montreal in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Boagalott Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, dlbalr said: Tough call on the disallowed goal on Gallagher - there's definitely contact and for some refs, it doesn't matter if it was caused by the defender or not. I don't think the contact stopped Lagace from stopping it but I'm not shocked it didn't count. The penalty kill has been decent tonight and Montembeault made some big stops in the second to keep Montreal in it. Really? I was shocked that Gally's goal didnt count. Originally, I figured the Ref called it a no goal because the he thought Gally hit the puck into the net with his glove, but the replay showed that it went on his hip/ass. I was expecting that it would called a good goal. However, from other reviews I've seen it seems like the NHL is disallowing any goal when the scorer's skate is in the crease, weather or not there is contact preventing the Goalie from making a save. I dont beleive Gally prevented the Goalie from makingthe save, it went in because the puck took an odd bounce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 Am OK with no goal call. 1 shot in 16:59 for Suzuki...shoot the puck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 David Savard pulls a Bobby Orr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs Fan in Edmonton Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 No more having to look at KK's smiling face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plutarch Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 I guess the strat we should have used to counter an over the cap Tampa... is going under the cap? big brain plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs Fan in Edmonton Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Four guys with their 1st goal of the year tonight, it was destiny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Montembault, who I like despite his being doomed as an NHLer, coming up big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Oh dear. Not sure about Suze going to the bench to get a stick under those conditions. Too bad, I really thought they were gonna surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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