Canadiens captain Brian Gionta arrives to congratulate teammate Hal Gill on the latter’s first-period goal.
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• At a Glance: The Canadiens extended their win streak to four games Saturday night, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-2 before a typically buoyant Habs-friendly crowd in south Florida. Sniper Hal Gill, who had gone 99 games without a goal before scoring Thursday in Montreal’s 4-0 win over the Florida Panthers, hit the net for the second straight match to get the Habs on the board at 5:27, his slapper beating Tampa goalie Dwayne Roloson. It was just the second time in Gill’s career that he had goals in consecutive games, the first time coming Oct. 21 and 24, 2002 when he was with the Boston Bruins. David Desharnais put the visitors up 2-0 about three minutes later on the power play, but the Lightning got that back 85 seconds into the second with an extra man, Lars Eller off for tripping, when former Canadien Dominic Moore beat Habs goalie Carey Price in a scramble. Max Pacioretty gave the Habs a two-goal edge again, with yet another PP goal, at 14:05. Pacioretty scored his second of the night, his 14th on the season, on a one-timer off a fine feed by Scott Gomez at 1:18 of the third. Vincent Lecavalier banged home Tampa’s second on a Canadiens turnover, generated by Moore, at 14:07.
• Keys To The Win: The Canadiens’ successful kill of an 88-second 5-on-3 Lightning power play in the third period and Price’s typically stellar goalkeeping, a 43-save performance.
• What It Means: The Habs enjoyed a perfect 3-0 road trip to Atlanta, and Sunrise and Tampa, Fla. Their record stands at 36-23-7 for 79 points. The win has the sixth-place Canadiens seven points ahead of No. 7 New York Rangers in the East and kept them in the hunt for first in the Northeast Division heading
into Tuesday’s Bell Centre game against the division-leading Boston Bruins, who
lost in overtime to Pittsburgh. The Bruins are five points up on the Habs with a game in hand.
• What’s Next: The Canadiens were to fly home immediately after the game. They’ll face the Bruins on Tuesday, for the first time since the gong show of their last meeting in Boston – an 8-6, penalty-filled Habs loss. Then they head back on the road for a game Thursday in St. Louis and Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh.
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Go Hal Go…lol
tied up with 40 seconds left
Stephen.!
I’ll take that bet .How much??
I have been in the original Tims in Hamilton. I remember going to the one in Port Credit (Mississauga) in the 60s. Oops. Revealing age.
Or, you can keep quiet, and enjoy the ride.
Odds are, the Habs will beat the broons.
Thats ok though, you’re trying to cherrypick negativities towards the Habs, it’s all good. Just proves you’re a fairweather fan, if that.
is there a new 1st line??
You are projecting your own fear of being hurt into the minds of the players. Fortunately, they are a lot braver than you are.
I’d be pleasantly shocked and looking to purchase another pair of 3D ROSE COLOURED glasses…
I too am raising a finger…to you.
Guess which one it is.
———————————————————————— “Young people have seen that a team can play electrifying, fascinating hockey while still behaving like gentlemen.” ~Serge Savard~
I agree with you, I would have liked to have seen him sit out for a while to mend more solid, rather than play through his pain. But after treatment he feels not to bad but still is hurting. To many players out this year and we did not have the luxury of just leaving him in the press box for a month.
He is getting treatment again yesterday and today.
So conversely, the fact that Martin coached a team that made the playoffs last season still means that he doesn’t know his @ss from his elbow?
Habs are training for playoff mode my friend, they’re going to shut down Stamkos the superstar all game. It’s some no-name grinders that are going to score 1 or 2 against the Habs tonight
im reverse karma for the habs, when I guarantee a loss, they win lol
But were not the most penalized team in the league, were 19th! with 854 PIM
Good things come to those who wait…But only what’s left by those who hustle!
I believe Haagen Dazs was a Danish player and not dutch.
On the other hand, Tim H wore #7 for the leafs.
Ali B.
1) definately wouldn’t call it a fix. desperation move. i still think pacioretty should play on the top line with cammy and pleks
2) with desharnais-pouliot or gomez-gionta (if max pac gets put on the 1st)
3) never say never! lol…he’s a centre and im sure JM has enough hockey iq to get that.
4) against younger faster teams, Weber. Picard played good last game though, but its florida rofl
5) definately
the score was 6-5 at the point of the first brawl…and 8 -5 when that assault occured…then patches sniped one with 15 seconds left to make it 8-6
***Subbang!!!***
Without a doubt your most dildonic comment ever.
***Subbang!!!***
So if the Habs surprise you and win both games, then what?
Read the book “Always Fresh” about the making of Tim’s. It’s an awesome little business story, and more about Ron Joyce who was the primary driver, but the parts where Tim shows up are really cool. And you get an insight into a hockey player’s life. Tim, a star on the ice, would help to construct new Tim’s outlets in the summer as his “job”.
Is LeCavalier playing or not? Thats what i want to know. If not, and we are able to stifle St. Louis and Stamkos like we did with Crosby-Malkin and Ovie-Backstrom last season we should come home with a sweep of the Snow Bird State.
I really want to beat them. We played well against them twice this season, and should have won 1 or even both of those games. ESPECIALLY the first one, they were pretty lucky with their ping pong goals.
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
“as far as i’m concerned he’s the BEST DAMN GOALIE IN THE LEAGUE!”
I like Carey Price, I really do. But have you heard of Tim Thomas? He kinda looks like Drew Carey, and he’s trying to pull off a Dominik Hasek impression. And ya know what? He’s doing pretty well so far while imitating the Dominator (amazing stats and all!)
Not even trying to hide it anymore, eh Tony?
XXIV…and counting
Tonight it is the defending Stanley Cup’s champs turn to fall to the Leafs as the Leaves continue their charge into the playoffs proving one more time how great a GM Brian Burke is.
I wouldn’t bet against it
“Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”
1977 Dryden got a record 10 shut out ,can Price at 7 do it
now ya jinxed the rest of the season for him…..thanks man…
Looking forward to a good game tonight – hopefully the boys can elevate their play and show that not only can they beat the also-rans but also knock off the contenders. As the kindly coach noted, this would be our first-round playoffs match right now so a win would be a great confidence booster. I’m still holding out hope for a jump as high as fourth so that they can get some home ice. Pittsburgh is fading but still picking up points since they lose in OT/SO quite a fair amount, and the two games we have against the Caps can help us vault them in the standings.
Go Habs Go!
The second penalty called against stamkos was kind of bogus, ad Gomez caused the puck to leave the TB zone twice on the PP, I’m so glad he didn’t get an assist for the point.
Toronto lost their game pretty quick though
In case you guys missed it the other night, here’s the Leafs’ Keith Aulie with a TKO over Scott F. Hartnell.
Also notice Briere crosschecking the kid on the back before the fight.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2akwOU10Y
I believe this “injury” news is an opportunity for sympathy, but I don’t doubt Gomez is injured to some degree. However, he hasn’t been injured all season and his unproductive play has carried through the season thus far. He’s just an overpaid millionnaire having a lame year. We hate his contract. We hate his lack of pts. even more. Fans would feel much more at ease with the dollars if the points were streaming in. Sucks to be Gomez, and yet I’m sure his bank account acts as a lovely soother.
Ians not the kinda guy to hate any player, I think he’s just callin it like he see’s it.
Habs penalty kill may be doing very well of late, in fact perfect, but lets face it if the Habs take penalties against this offensively gifted team it will turn into a no contest.
Remember when Gomez sat 2 games with an undisclosed injury of some sort? He came back and played well for a period of time after taking that break so if JM and co need to sit him for the overall benefit of the team in the long-run then for god’s sake pull the trigger already
Almost got one last game, RDS saying he could be in consideration for the vezina if he keep winning
Per NHL.com, Cammy and AK both play the LW. Who played the RW when they were together with Pleky? I think it might of been AK, correct me if I’m wrong. If that’s the case, then I take back my suggestion for putting Pac with Cammy. But if Cammy played the RW on that line then there’s no reason he wouldn’t be able to duplicate that success again with Pac on the LW.
Tonight maybe half the crowd or more are Habs fans?
—-One thing that has stood out for me with this team is the sheer amount of too many men penalties we’ve had this season…lol…i mean…..Its getting ridiculous.Coaching staff i guess is held responsible?Or the players are just so eager to get out on the ice to help the team…i dunno…but in any case we gotta clear this miscommunication up because a penalty like that in the Playoffs at a bad time could come back to haunt us.
—-Around the league and all the talk of vezina candidates do you ever really hear Price’s name thrown into the mix???I hardly do and as far as i’m concerned he’s the BEST DAMN GOALIE IN THE LEAGUE!2014 TEAM CANADA #1 GOALIE….will be PRICE.
—-We really oughta think about signing the wiz because,IMO,where would this team be with out his production from the back end?Sure he has brain farts every so often but the guy has been stellar for us this season and it’ll be curious to see if we can sign him at a fair price for both sides.
—-Did you know: Amazingly ….(and i didnt know this till today) that Sean Avery has just SURPRISINGLY only 1 career suspension.And it was an off ice incident….ya know the sloppy 2nds remark…..I just found that sorta hard to believe that Avery has never been suspended for some thing he did on the ice…..
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——————– – - Speaking of suspensions……Trevor Gillies scares me.Just look at him ….hes a lunatic!If colin campbell had thrown the book at him Gillies woulda probably seeked out Campbell and killed the guy….lol….Colin probably feared for his life!LOL….
—–those are my thoughts….
Do you have a life?Trolling on a habs website and bragging about your team cuz they strung together a few W’s?Truly pathetic.
Wrong pal …why?Cuz we gots the Price and its right and he’s gonna shine again tonight….
The big bad Booins are losing…luv it
4-1 hawks.
And BB ain’t a good GM. He’s a poor, publicity seeking hound who likes head shots.
Man is it fun watching Bergeron give the puck away on someone else’s blueline!
I hope the leaf fans don’t go too crazy when their team falls short because Burke may be forced to look for asylum. Perhaps you could refer him to a good place.
March break.There will be a good Habs crowd tonight like have a home game.
WRONG!!!!!!, he was truly pathetic even when the leafs were last, thats when I stopped looking at hi posts.
If you guys would simply ignore him he would go away!!!!