At the beginning of the week, Cristobal Huet and Guillaume Latendresse weren’t happy about not starting against Florida at the Bell Centre.
In Washington tonight, Latendresse scored twice and Huet made 35 saves as Canadiens began a six-game road trip with a 5-2 conquest of the Capitals.
It was a good night for the Kiddie Corps: joining Gui! on the scoresheet were Tomas Plekanec and Sergei Kostitsyn.
And Mark Streit’s third-period clincher came off some industrious play by Kyle Chipchura.
A dozen Canadiens figured in the scoring, including Maxim Lapierre, who won a draw cleanly back to Gui1 for his second goal.
With a W in the bag, Canadiens have matched their total on last season’s holiday road trip.
Next stop: Atlanta on Saturday night.
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Exactly.
He is our Nik Antropov.
Did anyone know that Mike Komisarek:
a. leads the league in blocked shots, and,
b. is second in the league in hits?
Caps announcers just said that.
Thats a big goal for us, thats where lats needs to go in order to be successful because most of our players won’t go there
Try a little Tenderness… Yeah
I’ve made a huge mistake…
Got to admit that Latendresse looks good today; has not been my favorite Hab but has looked good in last half a dozen games that he’s played in.
GOAL!
woo!
Gui Gui Gui!
gui gui gui
way to go.
ok
this would be a perfect time for a goal.
i still prefer him to price in 2007-2008. if he played every game he’d be more and more solid. . . underrated player
Damn, that Brashear is a smooth skater.
“…Huet is keeping it close”
Plus ca change…the more it stays the same
Just tuned into radio…
Is Kovalev with Higgy and Koivu, or is it Sergei?
happy 29th birthday andre markov
After a terrific start to the season, I find Alex Kovalev to be moving ve-ry slow-ly these-days. He is hesitating on shots, not really showing very much hustle, and I think we may have already seen the best that AK27 has to offer us this season.
Huet playing very solid. He’s impressive.
My contribution to the Christmas jingles (sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)
Sundin sucks
McCabe sucks
leafs suck all the way
Oh what fun it was to watch them lose on Saturday.
Lats might have just earned his spot in the lineup for next game!
Oooh! 2 shots!!
And the Caps’ jerseys are butt ugly!
Alexander Ovechkin reminds me so much of Pavel Bure. For my money, no one in the league has the ability to skate with the puck the way he does. He is a game-breaker. Him and Kovalchuk are in a league of their own in this respect. But I give ovechkin the nod as number 1. He is incredible.
I agree Mike, you could really see the difference on that shift.
HAHAHA! Because I have fun pointing out production errors… RDS guys start talking before they took the commercial. And are having audio issues. lol.
has there been a whistle yet?
no prediction for tonight’s game Mike?
I’m still waiting for my Super 7 numbers
so here we are, another game where we look up to the skies and wonder who will show up tonight
Ryder sitting is good, I think he sees the writing on the wall and a change would be good for him and the team.
When that happens, who knows but for all concerned, the sooner the better.
Brisebois still out is an early Xmas present…
fingers crossed everyone….1st period will tell
if they come out confused and listless, we’ll know they’re in a free fall
then no matter how many novenas my Zia Loretta says for them, we’re doomed
Ryder’s career numbers against Washington: 12 games, 9 goals.
Amazing how Ovechkin isn’t even in the top 5 for all-star voting and Sindy the Baby is #1. Shows you how much over-hyping something can lead to.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Bob could sign him for $10mill for 15 years?
A man can dream…
just like that, its a game again
I wish I had a loonie for every time the Habs let in a goal within 30 seconds of scoring one….
Phoquing BullshiFt
I’ve made a huge mistake…
Oh wow.. is that siren ever annoying.
Olaf Kolzig is no Jim Carey.
why does koivu take such stupid penalties, another bad one in the offensive zone
the good news? We’re winning.
bad news? The Caps suck.
Overall good news? We’re scoring 5 on 5.
Now if we could just figure out a way to beat the Panthers…
whos this guy they’re interviewing?
Rofl! Max Bernier’s interview on RDS is great
And different! Different is good
Maxime Bernier, Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Bernier
nevermind.
oh! he’s a libertarian…very interesting! The Canadian Ron Paul?
can anyone send me the link to the game online. I am getting to links to the sopcast on the web. both channels start with a 1 . both are offline.
thx
I strangely enjoy Crosby in a fight. Man he annoys me with his whinyness. But then we also forget the guys what, 20 years old.
If Al MacNeil could bench Henri Richard in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Blackhawks, Carbo should be able to bench Koivu! He continues to take these BS offensive zone penalties that merely highlight his lack of offensive production. I think The Flowers’ article was spot on!
Try http://www.channelsurfing.net. The sopcast feed is on there and works just fine on IE.
Crosby fighting!! who did he fight and why?
both chara and laraques fight ended within seconds with both guys going to the ground
Andrew Ference
I hope Ryder is taking notes from Lats on how to be a sniper.
It goes a little like this:
a) Get your butt in front of the net
b) Put it in the net
pretty fun fight to watch
Did he win?
Oh man! That was soo close!!!
Apparently they don’t learn. RDS misses another faceoff.
Too much messing around in the offensive zone. Two guys hanging around the net and the guys around the circles are making lazy passes to each other. Shoot the damn puck.
Chipper makes me happy
Especially when he draws penalties like that
there is a big penalty 5 on 3, now we have sucked ass most of the of the night lets put ovy and crew away
And I really think they should get rid of the stupid delay of game penalty for accidental shooting over the boards.
EXCELLENT!! Koivu gives Kosty the puck!
Go Baby!!
first of many!!
Woo! Sergei!
woohoo, big goal and i think it may of been sergei
congrats Sergei!
I temporarily take back my song of praise for Chipper.
good for him. i bet andrei says something to him after this game.
That won’t be his last either, nice tip in.
this from the Yahoo box score: Montreal 9:34, Siarhei Kastsitsyn 1 (Alexei Kovalev)
Siarhei? WTF
lol! Probably phonetics!
Other then the two shots that the caps put in, they haven’t really had any super dangerous chances outside of the PP. Those shot totals mean nothing, as per usual.
stop icing the damn puck
I’ve figured out our problems: since we never forecheck, I would guess we never do it in practice either so the D-Men have no idea what to do when they get forechecked.
The puck is like a friggin hand grenade out there.
According to NHL.com:
KASTSITSYN, SIARHEI and KASTSITSYN, ANDREI. They’ve always gone with that spelling of the last name.
Wow! That was dangerous! Not just in terms of goals, but in terms of health too!
Leap frog? That’s for kindergarden kids…
Carbo’s system seems to consist of letting the opposition have the puck exclusively for the last ten minutes.
smart play by hamrlik, put the puck on net and force a faceoff in their end
Go Cube Go!
followed by
Go Chipper Go!!
and of course,
Go Streit Go!
Great work by the grind line and Streit scores!!
imagine that, don’t sit back and go on the offence and the habs score. i call this the anti-carbo system
BIG WIN!!!
The Habs have no business being in this game, but there it is…5-2. We still have many problems, including being unable to get the puck out of our own end.
no kidding, considering we are supposed to be a defence first team we rank 27th in shots against
Free wings! That’s good, because I think the stockpile at the Cage was about to expire.
gosh darn it…latendresse sucks…send him to the minors!!!! 2 goals and a shot block, we don’t need his play on our team.
I know we got the win and I’m very happy about it but we have to do a much better job of clearing the puck out. Time and time again we fail to clear the zone and it costs us. Doesn’t Gui on an RDS interview looks like Teen Wolf?
hey mr.boone i think its atlanta on saturday
streit had 6 shots on goal, lats 4. half the teams total shots
obyrne had a team leading 4 hits but was a -1 but that was because of chippers tape to tape pass to backstrom which ended up in our net.
Great win!!!! Hey RDS howa bout not missing faceoffs jeez
zzzzzzzz
“Next stop: Carolina on Saturday night.”
Uh, their in Atlanta Mike
Explanation: I went by the pocket schedule. Check it out: December 22 “CAR”.
hey, if you can’t trust the pocket schedule … well, I guess there’s no Santa Claus.
Penguins blow a 4-0 lead in Boston (Memo to Michel Therrien: Don’t buy green bananas), but how about Kris Letang in the shootout? He’s 3-for-3 this season.
Who doesn’t beat the Caps? Crap, their wives do for God’s sake. Keep the Viagra at bay for another day folks!
I love a good house league game! don’t you? It really stirs the blood.
At least Huet will get another game or two out of this, might stop the Huet sucks trade him crap until his next loss.
Habs won, it’s not all bad, even if the Caps are Craps.
We used to have a big house league tourney in January when i was a kid. They should all get stickers for their helmets and a free coke and fries from Peggy’s Canteen.
Just cop the two points. That’s all I want. The real battle will be fought several months down the road. Vinny killed the leafs tonight. And, that was beautiful, F’N beautiful!!!
laffs blow another lead and vinny scores with less than one minute left in the game tampa wins 2-1. what a great night
House league hockey is still the game at its purest!
I just want to say “Yay Habs”!
http://yearofthehab.blogspot.com
If we weren’t the current Habs, we could truely gloat!
Haha, beauty.
http://yearofthehab.blogspot.com
be nice
i don’t know if its a thing about trading him because he sucks, because he doesn’t suck. He is going to the all-star game again and his stock is as high as it will ever be. It’s pretty much guaranteed he won’t be back next season, he will not resign to be a back up and gainey won’t fork out the 4 million or so/season he could command on the open market. I would hate to lose him for nothing like we did souray. Its too bad, but thats the business of hockey.
Nowhere near as beautiful as their loss on Tuesday night, imagine this, laffs ahead 2-0, last three minutes of the third, they still have a minute left on their PP, decide not to shoot into the empty net, puck gets robbed, 2-1, then tied 2-2 they lose in overtime.
Trying to be balanced. Never get too high, never get too low!
i laughed so hard watching the end of that game, it was funny because it wasn’t us. the only downside was that the laffs came out with a point, unlike tonight.
If we hadn’t stunk out the rink against against Florida, I would have cracked open another bottle of Port! But alas, our guys didn’t show up.
Gaborik has 5 goals and 1 assist tonight so far, that guy is ridiculous
win or lose it should qualify him for the first star, when was the last time someone scored 5 goals in a game?
ok, let me try. Huet was stellar, not hard to see with goaltending like that, why the caps are in the cellar.
how did I do?
ah crap you had to remind me, i had almost had that game repressed.
Let’s be honest here, especially for us old-timers, we get so frustrated with them because of the glory days. They’re not our Habs as we once knew them.
Times have changed, but we’ve never shifted our expectations of them. Not fair to a mostly young team with no superstar veterans. I agree with Mike Boone, we are very demanding fans but that’s only because of the past.
The best way forward is to support the rebuilding, bear with the mistakes, take the losses, celebrate the wins and just be behind them instead of shooting all around them when times are rough.
Couldn’t agree more. In both Tuesday’s game and tonight’s, the Habs were pitiable in their own end. Even with what should have been a comfortable lead, I was nervous throughout the game. They have to be the worst team in the league at clearing their zone. Someone on RDS commented that if they had been playing a better team tonight or if Huet had not been excellent, there’s no way they would have won.
they won 6-3 he was in on all goals… im loving it, i have him in my pool and its about time!
LOL! And Crosby fights! What has the (hockey) world come to?
Sort of like a parent. I keep trying to convince my pair of heathens that I used to be a real guy too!
It wasn’t pretty, but nobody remembers “pretty” in the win column. I’ll thake the two points, thanks!
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“Vote Saku for All-Star… or little Timmy gets it!!!”
Exactly. Who among us wasn’t thinking 5-2??? should have been 10-2 against a team like that. We have to focus on what they are, not what they once were. That’s my resolution for 2008, and besides, I don’t need any more bald spots.
Here we go again, RDS at my friends. Win or loose I can live with, as long as they don’t waist my time with poor effort like the last game.
Enjoy !, everybody
This will be a successful road trip. Can feel it in ma bones.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t agree with Dave Stubbs (I think, I might be referencing the wrong sports writer) saying that we should rely too much on our young guys. The truth is, as a young player, when you’re given the responsibility to lead, you will take it because they thrive on pressure. They wouldn’t be young potential stars if they didn’t have a natural sense of urgency and a little bit of leadership. Look at the Coyotes, running and gunning and their team is full of young guys. Chicago is being led by 2 young guys Kane and Toews. Players learn by experience, it’s fair not to rush a player cause it can hurt your team because they are still learning, but the veterans are there to balance that. I think Carbo did a great job (doesn’t happen often) earlier this year by calling upon gorges even after he made a blunder to show him confidence. There’s nothing that gives a young player more confidence than when you know you screwed the pooch, but 2 seconds later your coach is calling for you to get back out there.
I don’t know if I agree. Carbo seems to have a pretty large doghouse. When O’byrne slipped and gave up the puck against Tampa Bay he didn’t see more than one shift the rest of the game. I know Ryder is not a “kid” but the only way is going to score is bieng on one of the top two lines and I don’t mean at the hot dog stand. I shudder to think what will happen when Smolinski and Begin come back. He has been patient with Chipchura and the Kostitsyn brothers although I would like to see the younger one get a chance on the PP. I won’t even go into how he handles the goaltenders. There’s a reason this team plays scared and I don’t mean desperate. They play as if they are afraid to make a mistake. I can’t explain how they can look so dominant one day and so dormant the next but that’s for another post.
I agree with you completely.Don’t want to do any Carbo bashing….but he seems to me to be very vague and disorganized in his handling of some of the players and the team.He has been out coached in several games this year.I am not saying this out of anger because Ryder is benched.I am a Montreal fan like no other and I feel, lousy when this team looses…Ryder is my favorite player from NFLD.I sooner see him play with a team he would be happy with and succeed.Instead of being jerked around like he is now..
Okay three minutes in, a stinker so far.
Well Ryder just as well not play if he gets 8-9 min.There is a problem there.I guess we will all find our when he is gone.Thats the way it looks from here.Lets hope there is a better effort this game by the team collectively.
Rememeber this guy
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/122007dnspostarslede.2492a95.html
Ryder is in the sameboat, but with more HEART
This’ll be fun!
Only saw about 5 mins of the first period but it looks like we’re lucky to have the lead (as usual), being out-shot 14-6. What is with these guy’s anyways? Getting tired of this
No kidding, only andrei kostitsyn has a shot on goal from the top 2 lines. Kostitsyn jr. had only 3 1/2 mins of ice time. Pretty low for a first line winger but i guess the powerplays and penalty kills had a role in it.
thank god were leading 1-0 and now we must build on it and beat them because we can’t afford to lose a game that we should win
and I simply just love Cristobal Huet, he rocks!!!!!!:)
gohabzzzz
agreed, although Halak should have started the last game last year!
it’s not anti-price to be pro-huet. the guy has been solid as long as he plays regularly; the lack of confidence and playing time this year has been kind of classless. . . he deserves better.
As much as I like Sergei Kostitsyn, I think he should be back in Hamilton and Ryder back on the first line. Even if you’re going to trade a guy you should showcase him. Bob should know that! It’s like selling a car and not allowing a test drive. In my heart I hope Ryder can recover the rest of this season given the chance. All it takes is one goal to turn it around.
Posters MIA: Fewer than 50 Comments so far. I assume everyone is out Christmas shopping
Nah just holding my breath hoping for the best
Nice work on Ovy by Burner!!!
great play by obyrne on ovy
There just doesn’t seem to be too much to say that hasn’t been said. Which makes this post especially redundant.
nice f’in goal
what a play!!!!
GOAL!!!
wow he almost missed an open net!
YAhh. Holy crap that was awesome.
COOL! Plecs banks it in off Kolzig’s pad.
noticed the same thing. . . wow.
bad penalty to take 180 feet from your own net. hope we can kill it off
nice pass kovy, nice trick shot plekanec of course we all know you planned that
Random thought. I’m glad I didn’t grow up with a name like Semin. I can’t even imagine how much teasing I would’ve had to endure.
darn. . . saw that one coming.
Yup, Christmas shopping is where I was..
why can’t we clear the puck out? There was only one guy playing the point and markov puts it on his stick. just frustating
Jesus, how annoying is that siren in Washington?
apparently we can’t
I don’t think semen means semen in Russia, but I get your point
come, now
very annoying
Such an extended goal announcement… what’s with all the musical interludes?
is anyone else seeing this? The forwards are not going past the other teams blueline on the forecheck!!!!!
I wonder if that penalty would even of been called if it didn’t turn into a scoring chance for the habs. It was a hold, but a pretty weak one
I’m enjoying the blogcast, Mike — just not commenting ;–)
OK: I will say that I’m ashamed for my wicked thoughts last week of Saku needing a trade. Love the guy — give *him* a new coach!
Dumb Capitals announcers statements tonight:
a. Rollie Melanson was one of the best goaltenders in the league so it’s no surprise he’s such a solid goaltending coach
b. Hamrlik plays the exact same game as Souray
c. (with 9 minutes left in the 2nd), this is a very fast moving game and this period is just about over.
Yep, they’re being pushed back, playing too tentatively. That was one of the things they were doing right against Philly…
Habs have zero shots on goal in the period. . . except the one that was going wide and hit Kolzig and went in.
Meaning Habs have scored on over 28% of their shots tonight
thanks for pointing that out. . . missed it. mjames would be sick about it.
Nice pass by Nylander!
Am I reading this correctly?
We have 7 shots the entire game?
i want to see Kosty Jr, get the puck at high speed and see what he can do, he hasn’t gotten any real opportunities to show his speed and hands.
its our masterplan, we try and put the other goalie to sleep.
Whoa Condoleeza Rice in the house! Habs Fan?
yep. . . and only 1 in the second, which was going wide but richoceted off of kolzig’s pad and into the net.
the picture you attach to your profile is the perfect facial expression for that.
And that’s why you can’t miss faceoffs.
stupid RDS misses the goal
8 shots, 3 goals. 37.5% shooting percentage (or, for Kolzig, 62.5% save percentage)
WHY DOES RDS ALWAYS MISS GOALS?!!?!?
lol, thats very true.
cause they want advertising money
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Maybe she’s hoping to bump into Peter MacKay. Wonder when those two crazy kids are gonna finally just make it happen. bow chica chica bow wow
Oh thats why i was feeling off! The Sucker of Souls is in the house!
Huh?
We just scored again? RDS is always missing stuff…ARG
Hey, if we take two shots and get two goals every period..I’d take that!
Latendresse is making Carbo look like a frikkin genius.
The importance of winning faceoffs guys and gals
I see they are letting hooking go again…Chips just got hooked there am I not correct?
i noticed this happened alot in the florida game. The panthers did just enough obstruction not to get called for it
Is there anyway to watch it online? im out of town adn the sopcast is not working.
sopcast is working for me @ channel 21661
Try channelsurfing.net. Just looked and they have the game feed from sopcast.
Kolzig slashed Higgins on the head and no call?
oh my god, kolzig actually got to make a save this period
If Koivu is bvreathing that heavily so soon after the faceoff, he shouldn’t have been out there in the first place…
and is the Washington play clock on double speed or what?