The Canadiens’ fourth overtime pairing – Alex Galchenyuk and Rene Bourque – produced the game’s only goal.
And your Montreal Canadiens – with Shootout and OT wins – swept the Sunshine State.
Galchenyuk – making a brilliant play on crap ice – set Bourque up for the winner.
‘Fess up: When they headed south after that embarrassing loss to the Leafs, did anyone think the Canadiens would be headed home with four points in the bag?
Carey Price stopped 26 shots for his first shutout of the season, 17th of his young career.
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Has anyone noticed opposing players don’t carry the puck into the zone on Subban’s side anymore? He positions himself like he’s lining them up for the shoulder/back hit along the boards and guys invariably dump the puck deep. Or it’s just me.
He misses badly on occasion and gets out of position, but seems like other team forwards have taken notice.
I believe you are right me son.
Kevin Dineen is a stunt double for Kevin Spacey
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Panthers and the Carolina should be re-located to Hamilton and Quebec City!
Let’s not forget where the “Subban is hated” meme started: with Canada’s bigot-in-chief Don Cherry.
Good point…waiting for him to fade away.
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The worst thing about the Karlsson injury is that he lead the Sens in Corsi…
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The play-by-Play Live comments work quite well tonight.
Wish they would play Galchenyuk and Gallagher more. And I wish they would stop trying those stretch passes.
What a snooze fest. Play the kids more.
Move the Panthers to Markham.
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Price is an oyster. Unfortunately not all oysters produce pearls.
MLSE won’t allow it.
I feel bad for actual Panther fans, as an Expos fan empty Buildings are depressing and lead to teams being sold, who owns the Panthers?
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Any merit to splitting up the kids as an experiment?
I’m not writing off Cole or Max. This short season has really thrown them for a loop, but we’re still winning more than we’re losing. Let’s see what happens. It’s going to be a battle every night and I suspect we’ll eventually get all shipmates back on song. It might just take a while for a couple to finally get it together…
That being said… We need a big D badly!
“ can’t get used to this camera angle” can’t show more than three rows of seats
Prust is not a goal scorer, but Moen can score, change them up maybe, just a thought
Up to the end of last year PK didnt do much to help his cause but this year he’s been A1. Give the guy credit where credit is due. The stats seem to indicate he’s playing a more thoughful game. His minors are down and his point total are quite impressive. Has anyone save Boone made reference to the latter this year?
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It seems to me that Cole is injured again. A perfect feed on two separate occasions, and he blew them both. You don’t go from being dominant one year to cement boots the next.
Max back, Prust back.
So, has anything that Therrien has done had any good effect on the Habs?
Anyone?
We have a 7 – 4 – 1 record, from last place last season. Improvement is clearly evident.
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Put the rookies on the team …
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why? they won’t get any ice time
Katie Baker of Grantland on the Erik Karlsson injury.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8947878/erik-karlsson-devastating-injury-ryan-oreilly-saga-more-hockey-news-week-4-nhl
I suffer in a predominately Boston market. Bruins fans believe Subban is worthless, nothing more than a mouth. On the other hand they LOVE Marchand and consider him the future of hockey.
Speaks VOLUMES about what hey know about hockey…
kids played 3 minutes, how are they going to improve or show anything? A wasted yr for Chucky if this is going to be the trend. With the shortened season players need to adapt to the back to back, eatinging properly and rest. At 19 this is too much for Chucky or any of the rookies.
I think they’re doing a good job of sheltering him, giving him limited minutes. I’m a believer in progression rather than trial by fire, sink or swim. We need to be patient, and not be tempted to overburden the kid.
true but don’t you think he must be wondering why he’s playing limited minutes. Play the kid, correct him whenhe makes a mistake. Anything is better than some veterans that have diminished skills or lack of effort.
He’s a 19 year old rookie playing 10-12 minutes a game in the NHL, and you think he’s wondering about it?
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he’s playing no more than a fourth line, the Habs have always shielded rookies thus the reason we havn’t had a good 1 in awhile. Let them play, seems other teams don’t have an issue playing the kids. Philly is a perfect example.
So much for experimenting with new line combinations.
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Price is an oyster. Unfortunately not all oysters produce pearls.
Controversial? What does that even frikkin mean?Go Habs!
In this case, it means that there’s a lot of hullaballoo around a certain player for reasons no one can really point out.
Benoit Pouliot with his second assist in as many games…
What do you say good people?
Controversy is cultivated and nurtured by the media.
Oh, and like others have mentioned, if PK is more controversial than Cooke, Bertuzzi and Marchand then something is seriously wrong with hockey.
The SI list is a hack job anyway. That magazine’s knowledge of hockey has always been pathetic.
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I agree with Clay. More and more i find the PK comments have no basis in reality and must be motivated by something irrational. Race? Jealousy?
It might be because of his ‘controversial’ stint as a weather man. I took issue with his predictions for that week…
They hate him because they don’t have him and he’s awesome
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I am not someone who finds racism everywhere but I have no doubt that there is a racial basis for much of the anti-PK sentiment. I think it is largely unconscious and is more of an exacerbating factor than an outright cause,but it is there.Hockey is already bad enough with the traditional “keep your place” sentiment, but the race element pushes that across the line to getting “uppity”.
Today is like any other day… A day to bring the ruckus to the ladies. Only today I bring the ruckus with flowers and chocolates.
Boone I love you but goddammit you are so negative sometimes.
Let’s go habs!
I am not really sure what the mystery is about Emelin. ALL of his game: hitting, shooting, contain, backcheck suffers massively when he has to play the right side. Some guys can play the off side, but when he does he gets tentative, clumsy and unsure. I know it is nice to pain him with Markov on a Russian pairing but he HAS to play the left side.
The same thing happened last year.
Judging by the amount of empty seats, going to the hockey game was apparently not high on the list of things to do on Valentine’s Day for Miami area citizens.
Anyone have a link to a live feed?cogeco dropped RDS in my area
Bullet holes in my mirrors . . . .
Time for the coaching staff to have a sit down with Emelin. Yeah we know he can be a steady stay at home defenceman, though he’s been shaky this far this year but he’s being paid to contribute. Powerplay? NO. Penalty killing? Not really. Hitting? Uh Duh, Yeah. Thats what he does that makes the biggest impact and contribution. So whatta ya say Emmy? Can ya? Can Ya? Will ya? Will ya?
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PK got to be allowed to create…
Unleash the beast!
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Our lack of depth of D is clearly visible. Emelin’s not the confident guy that used to wallpaper guys. A bit of growing pains there. He needs a guy to cover for him while he finds his mojo. Markov’s not that guy anymore I’m afraid.
I know Gill is all but done in this short season, but we could use him as our resident Octopus/Wall on the PK. Swap him for Webber and a bag of pucks?
Theodore looks sharp. The Habs will need more traffic in front tonight to score.
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.ill have to get some traffic in front.
So…the Florida interviewer just called PK Subban “one of the most controversial players in the NHL”. WTF????
I hate to say it, but when people say this about him over dirt-bags like Marchand or Cooke, I have to think it’s racially motivated.
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Possibly. More than likely it’s because the interviewer knows less about hockey than I know about rocket surgery.
I agree. I don’t understand how/why PK is controversial. All we know is the guy is a good young player who is flashy (has personality), and people enjoy talking about him. Does that make someone controversial?
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Subban is about as controversial as a picnic. I’ve never heard one quote from the guy that sounded controversial, egotistical, or anything.
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Clearly you’ve been going to the wrong types of picnics
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The only controversial thing about PK is his outrageous potential. I’ve had it up to here with this crap and I have to agree… it reeks of racism. PK is one of our best players, popular and charismatic. Is that controversial?
He is not PP defense man..5 on 5 hitting machine…just the basics
Should we just admit that Emelin kinda sucks?
Ok too harsh on a Valentine’s Day. What i mean is he’s not good in the offensive zone and his positioning is suspect on defense. If he’s not hitting hard like he used to, he becomes very average.
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Emelin
Stop that puck at the blueline!
Seems the puck gets by Emelin a lot in opposing blue line
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It’s him or Kaberle.. in my book Emelin and Diaz still get a free pass this season as long as they keep improving the way they have been. Next year is a contract year for both..
My friend’s daughter is calling them the Panties or Pandsies.. she’s too young for the th and er apparently. You can really hear PK carve that ice..
So what’s the attendance tonight? Something like 1000!
At 25 bucks a ticket that’s like what… 25 grand!!!
Freakin’ Bettman.
Except the Panthers spent $100,000 on free hats, tee shirts, hot dogs and cokes
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Don’t forget the free parking!
Valet parking and a free car wash while you watch the game
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puck on end, decent shot by prust
Dam saves look better than they are…stop shooting puck into goalie
Nirvana is earned…
Prust shot it right into the Panther logo.
Almost took Armstrong’s nose off..LOL..pretty big target..
I like how this team comes out in the first period. They look like the better team most nights. Until the 3rd period, that is.
Who’s going to score first? I pick Armstrong…NOT!
In the “fans” defense…It looks like the Panthers must have an asinine pricing policy. All the seats between the blue lines are completely empty, and the seats outside the blue lines are mostly filled.
Similar to when you watch a NY Yankees game, and all the seats directly behind home plate are empty. They probably cost $500 a seat, and all the other seats are probably like $5 each.
Sports teams should figure out that this pricing makes their product look embarrassing on TV, where most people see it.
i thought it looked like a high elbow, i havent seen the hit yet on replay
Got my lovely wife some flowers today and met the Lads for some new single malt that the Evil Bar Keep was pouring. Damn smooth stuff. Can’t remember the name of it but man was it good. Vas-y Les Boys! Los Habs Para Siempre!
I like old single malt better. But the cask strength stuff can get you sideways in a hurry!
Hackey
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Good energy so far for a road game but we’re lacking finish to our hustle.
Yeah I know, not exactly a newsflash but let’s see if we can keep it up and make something happen.
Whats with all the empty seats? Is it manti te’o girlfriend night?
Valentine’s day…
That right there was some funny. kudos
Panthers putting up a fight.
Great back check by Eller on Weiss
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
The kids played better with Prust…how about Eller with the kids
What did DD eat today? He’s skating like his life depends on it.
haha who is the unnamed player
He sound European
I an beginning to think Max should be back on the DD line
For all of you wondering about attendance:
1) It’s Valentine’s Day
b) Normally the Florida tour is marketed to Quebecers over the Christmas break, which is why it always looks full when we see games there. Watch Florida vs. Carolina.
iii) It’s the freakin’ Pants.
—Hope Springs Eternal—
Apparently DD is a little PO’d we’ve all been trading him
Please sit diaz
“Darche is the phone to RDS, saying he’s talking to some teams”
Darche: “Hi there. Mathieu Darche here. Any job openings?”
Team: “Maybe – what are you looking for?”
Darche: “Well I was thinking hockey player”
(silence)
(click)
(dial tone)
I’m liking Bourque, such a different player then last season. Heard a interview with him on the radio today and he sounded like a good guy as well.
PK always play hard
I have to say, that Mike Bone/Mike Boone interaction made me laugh
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Cole got to shoot the puck where goalie is not…not directly at him geez
Nirvana is earned…
Strange Valentine’s Day promotion in Florida: Dress as an empty seat night.
sooo empty in there. depressing to watch.
Very solid start
PK is really good at handling the puck at the very end of his reach. Fun to watch.
PK making some nice passes,
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Does Diaz look weak?
Yes.
Ya, but he’s signed for next year by MB as is Emelin. Both will get a chance to grow, it’s only their 2nd season.
WOW Look at that crowd I’m impressed theres like 50 people, I think there are more people checking the liveblog then a the game.
I think its time Floriday Panthers make flight plans and hotel deals to get Canadian and Northern State Hockey fans to go down and watch the team cause thats sad
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I’m surprised nobody has done it. Drive to Platsburgh…3hr flight…should be easy to organize.
When I went to Abbott they offered trips to go to Ottawa, Philly and New York (Islanders) to see the games bus, hotel and ticket for a decent price, wish I had done it. Anyway haha Florida should really do that if they want more money cause thats sad.
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