Tomas Plekanek, brilliant all night, scored 45 seconds into the third period to give the Canadiens a 4-2 lead.
Done and dusted, right?
Wrong.
Ryan White’s idiotic double-minor opened the door to a Buffalo goal by Thomas Vanek.
The Buffalo sniper scored again off a wild scramble to tie it 4-4 with two seconds left.
No goals in OT, so on to the season’s first Shootout.
Vanek: Goal
Galchenyuk: GOAL!
Ennis: Save
Bourque: Save
Pomminville: Goal
Gionta: Save
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Sabres had 40 shots tonight… 7 Powerplays… a 5 on 3… and Budaj made 17/18 saves when the barrage was on in the 2nd period.
He played a good (not great) game.
The fact of the matter is this game is 4-2 and its practically in the bag when Ryan White does something stupid.
I’m sorry, this loss isn’t on the backup goalie.
Go Habs Go!
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Totally agree!
Also would of helped the last two game if we have a top line performing at even 50%.
DD to the waiver wire
Budaj is down and out, deep in his crease, on his knees, his stomach, and his back, and finally deep into his net, during scrambles around the crease.
His technique is questionable on certain plays, and terrible on others.
He plays very “small” and weak.
Carey Price, who is playing lights out, world class goaltending for us, wins us this game hands down, going away, like 4-1.
This is an accurate statement. I don’t blame Budaj but with Price we win in regulation.
K seriously MT, gionta in the shootout? give it to the hot hand pleks, gionta is and always has been garbage in the shootout. Patches looks lost out there and so does cole, thats all i got from that game, the rest positive. So help me god if we lose to those clowns on saturday. Night.
Gionta is among the Habs best shooters (career percentage) in the shootout… pleks among one of our worst.
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If DD starts at center I’m turning off the tv. Period.
“No Excuses huh” For me, Budaj was a joke tonight. He looked shaky from the start, and it continued throughout the night. Too far back in his crease and nervous to challenge the shooter. The coach made a bonehead move playing him tonight. The season is much too short to balance the workload between goalies. Overall, The rest of the team played well, considering they lost a heartbreaker to Boston the night before.
The goal with less than 2 seconds left…Budaj should have had his glove on it as it was laying in front of him for seconds,”my god fella take control”. On the other hand, surely the ref didn’t see the puck and therefore in my mind, he should have blown the whistle for a stoppage in play. long before the pool shot into the net. These back to back losses surely takes the wind out of our sails somewhat. Apparently these adversities build character, and are said to even themselves out over the course of the season…that’s if we make the playoffs that is. Oh well off to Toronto, more guts sweat and toil…we can only watch to see what happens.
Can’t believe no one else thought of this:
DON’T do things the White way.
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict we’ll have a different back-up next year!
Boone “hoped” for 1 point, and “double reversed cursed” us into a 1 point night.
Therefore, by HIO logic, I blame Boone!
Heard when the season opened that you had to be 6 3 1 after 10 games or you would be in a heap of trouble.
I think Boone had a ton of coin on Mis o Jeu playing for the “tie”.
Ties have the best pay offs.
Probable final comment: I’m definitely back on the Eller bandwagon. Kid’s been great.
See you cats tomorrow or Saturday. And chin up: it’s still way more fun than last year.
I hate DD.
Night
What do the fans think of DD tonight…Myself ,personalty speaking,I think he’s screwed until they pay Cole’s hypnotist the ransom!
My god.
Please read my posts for the last two weeks DD is done. Over. Flash in the pan.
Too small. Not fast enough. Terrible altogether.
Yep. They’re linked at the hip. It’s time to get this line going. I think we take White out of the lineup, dress a seventh D and start shuffling forwards and double shifting those who deserve (and sitting those that don’t perform). And I absolutely think this will happen.
The season’s too short. You don’t fix things when you’re winning, but when you lose, it’s your opportunity to make adjustments. Pleks’ line is good. The Kid line is good. Let’s use elements from those lines (and Eller obviously) to inject some fuel in the engine.
And hopefully that will get everyone back on line. I do think Cole has too much skill/ability/professionalism to simply sit there and let his team down. Same with Max and DD.
Its all MT fault, the coach sucks
I hope you aren’t serious..
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White! Arrrgh! There’s the game right there. Love Bourque. More ice time for Eller.
You can’t be both a Habs and a Leafs fan
Colby Armstrong very Happy Ryan White is on the team
Well the heat is off PK. White just took his place. Wonder what he was thinking. Got to give it to Ott.
I’m enjoying the messages on here tonight more than last night. Instead of “we are so soft and small” it’s “I hate White/Budaj”
For some reason, this feels more natural.
Why does tsn 690 keep saying we finished last in the east. We finished 14th and got the third pick in the lottery.
15th in conference last year.
Lot of blame for this one. First things first, in what world is that scramble a goal, I couldn’t see the puck whatsoever for the whole scrum, these refs are horrendous. Two, White we all know. Three, has anyone ever witnessed Gionta score in a shootout? Who sends him out there, I knew it was over when he was shooting, also Bourque couldn’t buy one in regulation, so why put him in their in the shootout. *Exhale* I needed that rant.
Gionta was one of the few who scored in the shootout last year and the year before. That year (2009-10), his most notable shootout goal was against Anaheim, in a game in which we were down 3-1 with about three minutes left. We tied it (Markov and Gionta, I think), and Gionta’s shootout goal was the decider. Without that win, we wouldn’t have made the playoffs.
We lost tonight for 4 reasons: 1. Budaj is soft, he was staring right down at the puck with his left hand free and not smart enough to cover it, instead he lets them bang away at it to tie the game 2. White, just plain stupid 3. Therrien was out-coached again! He got lots out of the players to start the season from emotion, not systems. His choice of defence pairings on the PK is questionable. Diaz cannot kill penalties, he’s too soft, as is Eller 4. Shoot out is not something we are good at, why not Gallagher? Plekanec scored twice in the game, why not? Looking at Therrien’s face behind the bench tonight was making me sick just like JM’s did, bad sign, bad night.
MB should have shopped aroung for a Reliable backup!
Have the people who are expressing shock at Gionta being on the SO watched a lot of Hab games or at least looked at the team’s SO stats?
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The Rangers and Carolina starting to sneak up. Look out.
My hate for DD is growing uncontrollably
You don’t say? Your previous 6 comments didn’t indicate that at all.
Honestly though, he is awful.
And way, WAY too small and weak on the puck to make it in this league. It’s getting embarrassing that we call him our top C.
He has to go. Plain and simple.
DD? What about White?
I am not pleased with White. I’m sure we won’t see him for a couple weeks.
But DD is terrible. Terrible
I wonder if they’ll let White keep his jersey.
Send White down to HAM and promote Dumont..
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Am I the only one praying o see Dd along with White in press box?
DD slump and the solution with White helps to clarify our centre position… demote White, put DD on 4th line or in pressbox but calling someone up.
Agreed. Eller to first line C.
Bring up Dumont.
Waive DD
Wave our 2nd leading scorer from last year. you been at Dude’s house smoking his stash?Cole is a shadow of himself from last year.
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Therrien about White (loosely translated from the 98.5 scrum)
“The first time we gave him a chance. The second time we sent him a message. The third time he better understand…”
If we’re going to do this blame thing, let’s do it proper:
1st goal: Desharnais, Subban, and the winger (Patches?) all responsible
2nd goal: Markov’s terrible cross-ice pass, Emelin’s bad pinch, Cole’s lazy backcheck
3rd goal: White’s penalty
4th goal: all 6 guys on the ice. All they had to do was slow down the Buff puck carrier even a tiny bit and/or freeze the puck.
Armstrong on the ice in the last four seconds, lol. And Emelin instead of Subban or even Gorges. Not a brilliant match-up.
I’m not blaming MT though, he coached a good game. The look on his face when White suckered Ott said it all. He was in disbelief. I am just wondering about the players he put out there.
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I didn’t notice the D pairing, but yeah, I would have gone with 76 and 26 in those last 20 seconds. They would have gotten it done.
I don’t have any stats but just guess Habs better shootout players:
Chucky,
Markov,
Eller,
Gally,
DD,
Subban (maybe)
Bill Bill Bill
“Team needs to help you out”. They scored 4 bloody goals for Boodaj & he let in two very soft goals!
Opinions differ. I don’t consider any of the goals soft and he did make 36 saves.
Bottom line: Habs win if White doesn’t go brain-dead.
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1st one was a weak shot from Ott between the wickets…2nd one was Budaj so far in his net he practically gave Ennis a wide open net..
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You stick to that Bill …
…loosely translating from French …Therrien ends by saying ‘ playing White not one of My better decisions’
MT: “This is the 3rd time, White better understand this time”
On the goal: “We don’t understand the standards for interference”
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I don’t care what anyone says. Gomez played a large part in tonight’s meltdown!
Not fair! Oh hell… you are RIGHT!
If White is benched again, as he should be, this will play into Eller’s hands. He’s been good the last few games; perhaps he can solidify his spot in the lineup.
I might be angry if I wasn’t laughing so hard. Sometimes you just gotta’ laugh. No way Buffalo deserves to walk away with 2 points, yet that’s just what they did. We certainly didn’t play a great game but at 4-2 it should’ve been over. Learn from it and move on.
Went back and looked at the last second goal. First, clear goaltender interference.. Ott pushed Budaj into the net.. but the biggest question i have is WHY WAS LARS ELLER on the ice? He got clearly beat up the ice and had no clue what was going on. Lars Eller. With a game on the line would you have Lars Eller out there.. Plek’s and George’s would pushed around.. where was PK?
I agree Rejean. With everything that happened, we still had the game won with 22 seconds to go. When you look at the five guys delegated to defend that one goal lead, it’s clear this loss is on MT. White screwed up, but we still could have won the game if we had the right guys (more physical Dmen) in for the remaining seconds.
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DD needs to be waived
Second night in a row we have been out coached. He will burn out Markov,s knees pretty soon. And has Therrien not looked at the Gorges, PK pairing of last year. Boullion should play with Markov. Emilin and Dias can not get it done yet.
Our Stanley Cup run is done again! the ride was fun while it lasted.
Now for the positive, we can only go up from here and we will get better, once Therrien gets to know his players.
I don’t know about White. puts his team in a bad situation taking stupid penalties. up until than the Habs played a good game considering they played last night. I guess one point is better than none and right now .I don’t feel good about Saturday night either.
the pass two games we played good enough to win. but didn’t.
By the way. Don’t blame Budaj. He had 43 shots fired at him. our Guys just couldn’t put it away. looks like signs of last year.
I don’t blame Budaj but with Price Buffalo get no points.
So, um, Pacs-DD-Cole is REALLY taking its sweet time to get going. Time to shake things up? Promote Eller?
DD’s chance has come and gone. How many games on this short season are we expected to wait to play an actual #1 C???
…Therrien on RDS …seems it’s ‘strike 3′ for White
White’s a dumbass and the officiating sucked, but Budaj is the second coming of freakin’ David Aebischer!
White between Cole and Pacioretty!!
White, between stools at Hurley’s Saturday night!
One more thing….Unless Price is injured, why is he sitting? Brodeur and many others play night in and night out. Is he soft or something? We basically do not have a second goalie, but Price should play and play. It’s only a 48 game schedule.
So…
Budaj is just brutal.
White takes the awful penalty that gets Buffalo back into the game
Someone on here mentioned that the interference on Budaj for the game tying goal wasn’t reviewable???
So what the hell happened in the LA vs. EDM game??? The one where the oilers tied it late… Referee blatantly calls it a goal on the ice… But under further review and after “calling upstairs” it was determined that Sam Gagner was interfering with Quick when Quick had his pad wrapped around Gagner’s leg… In conclusion the goal is disallowed….!!! So if Budaj is pushed into the F’in net…. It’s obvious it should be no goal right!?
We really need to add some talent in the crease behind Price..If Carey goes down we’re FxxKED…Budaj can’t carry the load and he certainly isn’t up to spelling Price..
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The Habs are reminding me of last year. They’re sump pumping along.
Is there a trophy for bonehead of the year?
Hey, the only bright side I can see is that Chucky rose to the challenge on the shootout. Would have loved to see Gallagher or Pleks there too. Pleks was on a mission tonight.
Please lord get rid of DD. MB please trade that midget
Lol poor White he needs to score a game winner or he won’t live that penalty down for a while also he’s in the press box for a while now
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I asked earlier and got no response. Maybe Boone might know. I s Price suffering and lingering effect from the Eller shot in practice. Maybe Therien had no choice but to play Budaj.
1st line isn’t slumping, they are awful and need a change
Let’s face it the Pleks, Bourque, Gio Line is our new first line and the kids line is our 2nd line.
I know we aren’t supposed to rag on the reffing and yes, White and Budaj are partly responsible but how the hell does Toranna allow a goal where one player is pushing the goalie to the back of the net and the goalie has the puck frozen but the freaking ref never blows the whistle?
What kind of a crap bag full of idiots are reffing this year?
Buffalo announcers said that was “not reviewable”. They basically admitted that it was goalie interference, but couldn’t be overturned by video review.
I think White still has time to grow into being a valuable 3rd line player on some other team’s AHL affiliate.
how about some good news..we got a point..Ottawa lost in OT its always nice when they lose..the world is still spinning…its Friday tomorrow..how was my grammer? Was it OK? What about my spelling..did I pass english class?
You forgot to mention that Toronto is losing.
…until 2 seconds ago when they scored to tie it.
Get rid of DD. please god
Gionta in shoot out absolutely ridiculous.
Still this team being 6-3-1 is a surprise
I couldn’t agree more!!!!!!!! Could see this loss coming as soon as white went to the box. Gionta!!! really?????
Anybody notice that Ott looks like that pirate character from Dodgeball?
—Hope Springs Eternal—
Now that you mention it…..he does look like Steve the pirate!!! Lol.
This was our win. We lost because of Ryan White and the Refs, there’s no way around it. Budaj was not the best tonight obviously, BUT he did enough for the win! The refs robbed the game! I may sound like a sore loser, but IT’S THE TRUTH! And Ryan White, he is making too many serious mistakes that are costing the team. He has to be benched and punished in some way. We DESERVED that one more point, and the way we lost it is depressing. This was our bounce-back. This win would have established us as an elite team, being able to bounce back from a loss for the second time. I’m angry, and I can rant for a long time. The Habs will win Saturday. The last two games have been so difficult…nevertheless, GO HABS GO!
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Allowing 4 goals in not doing enough for a win buddy …
Allowing 3 goals technically. Last goal was not their fault and the reason for their loss.
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First tine i log in yearsWow so glad i stopped reading comments here LOL
…really pissed with White, but same time really feel sorry for Him …Reading His face, He seems to know what is coming
…I think He will be a good third line player in the NHL …I hope, after a period of watching from the press box He gets another chance
A Bruins or Philly contract
A bar stool, its over!!
Unless the guy’s tongue is literally hanging out on the ice, we cannot, I repeat, WE CANNOT afford to give Price another night off!
Highlights of today:
1. Galchenyuk truly is zing at shoot outs
2. Subban is the D we have always he was, the kind we build a team around
3. Plecky is just amazing
4. Coles is sleeping, so are his line mates
5. Budaj isn’t a competent backup goalie, I felt nervous everything the puck came in Montreal’s territory + he gives up terrible rebounds
6. White: wth?
I’m sure Therrien will school his players, and hopefully we won’t such a disappointment in the near future, inshallah. Amen
I need some Timo wisdom..wonder what he thinks?
Let me take a stab:
MAB is awesome.
Gomez is even better.
Those last two statements were sarcastic.
Everyone and everything else sucks.
yep that is pretty much it…
Not sure why PK was not out in the final minute…
Ryan White to BUF for Steve Ott
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Jack Edwards is a clam.
Gary Bettman is a bobblehead.
We are not going to see White wearing the red, white and blue again! he is gone, or Therrien loses all credibility about accountability.
Alone this jackass has cost us two games, because he has brain damage and no concept how a team plays to win.
Up by two goals and he wants to jump Ott. See ya later White. You did not learn a thing, move on.!
His heart is in the right place but unfortunately his head is somewhere between his lower back and his hamstrings.
I agree krob. I think his instincts say “stand up for yourself and your teammates”. Unfortunately his brain needs to stop him in certain situations. I hope he is applauded for his heart but taught to use his head also.
WTF the W now stands for White
Bill
Total momentum killer BS. That was done by Boodaj giving up two soft goals second after the Habs taking the first two leads …
Therien shat the bed TWICE now by playing Boodaj twice …
Price is more than comfortable with this workload …
Over coaching by playing Budaj twice so far this season,
It’s common practice to play your back up goalie in back to back to games.
Being a back-up is tough, you’re always rusty. Team needs to help you out. Pretty much everyone did that except White. Why are you defending him? This one is pretty obvious. You don’t do that with a 2-goal lead in the third … Hockey 101 stuff.
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White might have let buffalo back into the game but we need another backup budaj is brutal. On tying goal all he had to do was cover the puck it was right by his glove. gallies and Eller in shootout not Gionta!!!!!!!!!
Racking pisses me off when habs lose like this…..
Now the team doesn’t need White type of player, Prust and Moen are who we really need.
..I wouldn’t second-guess Toronto if Ott was pushed or steered into the blue, but he purposely entered deep in the blue, made ZERO effort to get out, and purposefully bumped Buday
…based on all the chintzy borderline interference calls on the goalie lately in the NHL, the non-call by Toronto leaves Me boggled
Why does it boggle your mind it is Toronto.
they can’t call that from toronto, it has to be called on the ice, there wasn’t anything they could review.
Considering they waved off the Ottawa goal for alot less it is mind boggling they didn’t wave that off too. Then again the NHL isn’t known for it’s consistency either.
We can debate the good and bad of Therrien so far, but what’s not in debate is Rene Bork. Whatever MT did to get him going was pure genius. Bork’s been great.
That’s for sure! He has played well. I think Cole and him exchanged underwear or something.
As bad as Whites braincramps have been …how about Steve Ott…IMO he was the under the rdar star…he suckered White in and interfered with BUdaj….and all the while had the stupid grin on his face…can’t stand that guy
The Ott sh!t-eating grin.
I also strongly dislike him.
Of course White will be the scapegoat (RDS) but more and more MT’s coaching is becoming questionable. Loose to the Laffs on Sat and team confidence will be difficult to recover. What would possess him to put Gionta in the shootout?
Gionta is 47% on the SO on the road, best on the team?
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Buffalo is more or less Gionta’s ‘hometown’ arena, his parents were there, and he was one of the better Habs on this ice tonight.
Sabre fans booing their team in the last 2:30 minutes, then cheer them like a stanley cup winner, F^#n bullshit. Budaj had the puck frozen, should ve been no goal. White needs to grow up.
Question….would you sign a free agent if it guaranteed you 5 points over the season? HOw much would that be worth? Ryan WHite has now been responsible for 3 points in this shortened season (Ottawa and tonight)….that is the 82 game equivalent of 5 points….that is tough to swallow from a 4th liner when a team would probably pay 5 million for a guy who would mean 5 points.
You want a TSN turning point in the season remember this game. New culture same result. The second they tied it up we all new who was going to win this game. Sorry to say but they looked like the Laffs in this game.