Michel Bergeron nailed it on L’Antichambre:
You can win with an AHL lineup at home. But it’s harder on the road.
Especially when your banged-up lineup is playing the third game in four nights.
Especially at Madison Square Garden, where the Rangers play the kind of smash-mouth hockey the Canadiens did not have to deal with against Tampa Bay.
Brandon Prust set the tone off the opening faceoff.
Biff! Baff! Boom!
In 18 minutes, the Canadiens were down 5-1 and Carey Price was watching the game from the bench.
Should Jacques Martin have started Alex Auld?
The backup goaltender was excellent in relief, but the Rangers took their foot off the gas pedal.
When the Canadiens closed to within 5-3, New York cranked up their forechecking again and it was over.
Should Martin have called a Timeout to slow down the Rangers’ early onslaught?
Might have been a good idea. But the coach is not a great one for TOs.
Martin has a chance to bounce back on Saturday. The team will get into Minneapolis at about 2 a.m. and there’s supposed to be a practice at noon.
The team battled hard.
Most – not all – gave it everything they had.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall at practice.
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Welcome to the newer NHL: The National Head-shots League.
The color of the sky is blue, but if you look at the trees, they are green
Boone,
You would be a lonely fly as practice didn’t happen!
This “new” look absolutely sucks!
The archives are empty of any comments as well. All those great posts of ours rendered to memory hole.
This thing is just so vapid and sterile. Just what Bettman wants. The fact that they gave up the “Habs” portion of the blog speaks volumes about how pussified thing are. Do the Montreal Canadiens own the rights to Habs and the verb to be?
I am sure HabsWorld.net is changing to HockeyWorld.net as we speak. It’s a hoax.
It’s time for this blog to f’n tank!!!
Test
And they limit the number of replies…or they try to….SO cheap
I had to hack to respond. Lame.