Canadiens’ Andrei Kostitsyn misses on shot towards Capitals goalie Braden Holtby, while being checked by Mike Knuble during the first period Saturday night. Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette
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AUDIO: Scott Gomez | Brian Gionta | Tomas Plekanec | Carey Price | Jacques Martin
• At a Glance: For the first time since 1949, the Canadiens have been shut out for three straight games following Saturday night’s 2-0 loss to the Washington Capitals on Saturday night at the Bell Centre. Marco Sturm scored early in the first period when he knocked a rebound out of the air and into the net behind Carey Price 1:24 into the game. It stood up as the winning goal. Alexander Semin scored off an odd-man rush 16:19 into the third period to end any thoughts of a comeback. The Canadiens managed only three shots on goal in the first period and only 18 overall, giving Capitals goalie Braden Holtby an easy night for the shutout, his second in 14 games. Price stopped 31 of 33 shots he faced. The Canadiens have not score for more than 186 minutes of hockey.
• What It Means: The Canadiens remain in sixth place in the Eastern Conference with a record of 40-29-7 for 87 points, the same number as the New York Rangers, who remain in seventh because they have won fewer games in regulation time. The Sabres sit at 85 points in eighth place in the conference.
• What’s Next: The Atlanta Thrashers are at the Bell Centre on Tuesday night and the Canadiens travel to Carolina to take on the Hurricanes on Wednesday for their final game of March.
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Speed or no speed, when you have a team that can’t cycle the puck, work the corners and gain puck control, you have a team that can’t win in this NHL
You would have thought when Bob was in charge, he would draft guys with his hockey character and be able to play in his style of hockey. Tough hard nosed players who can play the game at a high level. Even Fergy used to score 20 goals a season. Now, we have alleged speedsters who couldn’t carry Cournoyer’s jock trap. Gomez, what an embarrassment. The Pocket Rocket was smaller and could skate circles around Gomer and would work the corners and actually come out with the puck! This team is too small, not tough enough and lacks the key ingredient a winning team must have. Guts, courage tenacity and power forwards that will win the small and big battles for the puck.
To bad, I love them dearly, but, I feel like they’re destined to be in the bottom of the NHL Eastern Division until they make some changes.
18 shots on net? Way to go JM for having the team ready to play & motivated, not to mention disciplined. You get my vote for the Jack”ass”Adams trophy.
This team will never be anything better than average. Last year was just a fluke. Until they start changing their philosophy we will always end up like this. Its pretty sad when they cannot get motivated enough to bounce back after such a pathetic loss. It really says a lot about the coaching staff and players doesnt it??!!
since they only average 2 goals a game and scored 8 against minny they will be shut out again against atlanta!!!!!
Hopefully.
Thoughts on the game:
umm… hmmm…
I guess there’s not much to say. The team is playing in the image of their coach really, no fire, no emotions, no heart, no soul, nothing. Flat.
They can’t handle the puck, it’s like a hot-potato for them, it goes from one hand to the other till intercepted by someone wearing mittins who makes a run towards Pricey.
Coach Martin mentioned it wasn’t the emotions they lacked against Boston, it was execution. He was wrong then. What the team lacked was emotions. What the team lacked today was emotions and execution. The passes were horrible all night long. The puck was bouncing throughout the night on our player’s sticks, they just weren’t able to put it on the ice and make nice passes or zone entries, or anything for that matter.
Easiest shutout for Holtby ever? Absolutely.
I could probably go on in my critique of the team at the moment but I know that they are just plain better than this. Are the players suddenly tired of the coach? That doesn’t make sense, they had a frigging sweet outing in Minnesota. Then what’s the problem? Are the players suddenly unhappy that some veterans seem to be getting a free-pass lately?
It’s like I mentioned during the game on twitter — What is Pouliot thinking when he got his only shift in the third? Hmm, didn’t Gomer take a bad penalty for holding in the last game and was the first person out on the ice in the third? What’s the problem here with me?
Is that the crux of the problem?
I guess we will just have to wait and see if Thrashers will manage to shut us out on Tuesday as well, not like they haven’t done so already this season. The way it was looking today, they just didn’t know how to put the puck in the net. Perhaps they are ALL just going through a bad stretch, perhaps we are over-reacting, perhaps they will bounce back as they have done often… lets hope so because, as it stands, even the playoffs spot seems to be shaky now.
Look at NYR, 1-0 against Boston — at least they realized the importance of their game and their position.
Disappointed to say the least.
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Listening to these postgame audio and it intrigues me… They know that they sucked, they know what they didn’t do and what they have to do, and they’ve been saying it since the last couple of games, so WHY THE HECK AREN’T THEY DOING IT?! I feel like kicking all their behinds and send them into the outer space, hoping that they get zapped by some supernatural power and come back to earth all enlightened and on fire.
Somebody explain to me why JM is still coaching this team……HE SUCKS
So he can’t speak french….so what…give Kurt Muller a shot and pay for a interpature!! u cheap f****!
Interpreter, my friend. So others won’t need one
KIRK
Because he sucks in both official languages.
Safe to say we are in the playoffs agreed? However, it is not safe for us in the playoffs. We now have lost any possible chance of taking 5th. 6th is now is gonna be a challenge to maintain. Either way we will be playing a great team probably one who wants to avenge us. I am gonna go tomorrow and see if I can get my grips redone on my golf clubs, get an early start. Pitiful week of hockey, March was not kind to us fans!
Polish up those golf clubs. No playoffs this year.
Excellent!!!!!
Still trying to figure out if you’re a Bruins fan or a Leaf fan. Either way, it’s been centuries since your team last won the Cup.
LOL, that tickled my funny bone
Frankly, I don’t give a fig which he is or what he says.
If i was jm, id have the whole team get on a bus and drive them straight to my house. Once there, id pop out 20 bottles of cheap vodka, one for each player. Have them on a 2 hour deadline to finish each bottle. Once thats done, id feed them big macs and each a whole bag of sour cream n onion chips. They should be done around 4 am.
Once theyd all be drunk and feeling like crap after all the food, its back onto the bus straight to brossard. A 2 hour practice at 430 am, with no pucks.
Theyd all barf and begg to stop, and id tell them that theres no way theyll ever feel tired like that again during a
game. Tired and unable to perform would be the shape theyd be in during this practice.
So no more excuses and cheap effort levels.
In retrospect, the Minnesota game was the worse thing that could’ve happened to this team. Martin probably read the riot act to the players and sucked the life out of them.
You my friend are absolutely right. I was having a discussion earlier today during the game with someone about the same thing! We were wondering why is PK not carrying the puck much like he did in the game against the Wild and thought, hmm.. he probably got a scolding after the game and said to himself “eff this, i’ll just be a dull-ol guy on defense now”.
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The direction this team is going….you’ll be waiting a long time for a 25th cup in Montreal. I got knocked all year for saying the Habs don’t have any 1st line players and they were too soft….well guess what it’s beginning to show right now and you can keep on knocking me if you want….they will be gone in the 1st round and they’ll place the blame on Carey.
THEY have 3 – price, subban and pacioretty, eller will be ok. and kostitsyn a star away from these idiots.
The Count got to go after this year and the GM with him,plus bite the bullet and put Gommy down with the Bulldogs and bring in top 2 top six forward over the summer.7 .5 mill a year .WoW.
Gomez has 7 goals and he makes 7million plus that’s one million per goal?!
in that case, think how much he can get on ebay for each of those pucks!
Hate to say it the team is going nowhere with the count…..0 goals in 3 games.Players not playing for him,,
This team doesn’t want to play for Jacques Martin
So over the span of three games, after scoring EIGHT goals against the Wild, they’ve decided to quit on him?
No use trying to use reason or logic or calm, rational thought tonight Chuck. It’s full panic mode now. No holds barred, trash the entire organization, blame everyone right down to the scalpers for the mess. In fact, you and I carry much of the blame for being so damned optimistic
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The Minnesota game was the aberration dude not the norm. Like it or not the last three games are more the norm when it comes to offensive production.
most probably after scoring 8 goals, they figured, hmm we managed to match our weekly production, lets sit back and chill now.
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Worse still, they don’t seem to want to play for each other.
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”–Winston Churchill
Simple summary. No grit, very soft …. Dull hockey, dull coach!
Matt D’Agostini scored #19 tonight! Well done Gauthier!
Who would you blame for unloading SK74? Gauthier? JM?..Price?
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the gm- but i dont take them out of context. d’agostini, latendresse S kostitsyn, obyrnne, grabovski, ribeiro, etc. – i am sick of the bs that it is those players bad attitudes. as soon as out of here attitude is no problem. problem is gainey/gauthier -END OF STORY!
I know what our problem is folks.!
We just don’t want to run the score up. Martin’s style of game you know, he demands stopping the opposition from putting the puck in our net at the expense of the players enjoying any offensive hockey.
Two things wrong with that Jacques, one, playing defensive hockey creates twice as many injuries. And secondly, we forget how to have fun and play offensive hockey.
No passion, intensity, skating, discipline, passing or shooting, = EARLY GOLF.! and coach moves on.
hired by his friend gauthier. the pair both were fired for incompetance when they were in ottawa.
The count got to go ,team is not playing for him or the GM .He made no move to bring in some size,all the teams know that to beat the Habs just hit them hard,a.The count got rid of big George and teams are taking advanage of that..nothing they can do about that.The small players are all bang up..
exactly
Post of the night Ian!
The Blues outshoot Minny 47-16. Dagger buries his 19th. If he remained on the (healthy) MacDonald and Backes line all season he’d be up to 25 minimum. With Vladimir Tarasenko coming up next year, they’ll be solid.
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A source of mine, call her “deep esophagus” says the reason the Canadiens aren<t scoring is a deal that was made by the Canadiens with Cage aux Sports. Seems the are losing money with their 5 goals = free wings promotion.
Now you understand. Remember follow the money.
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Brendan Gallagher just got his first of the playoffs. Time to call him up.
another wee..one ..!
Yeah, but he can play. Besides by the time he’s ready most of the current wee one’s will be gone.
Most …not enough ..how about all!
Well, DD will (likely) be the only one under contract by the time he’s ready (if he ever is).
I know there are a number of posts here asking for Martin’s letter of resignation (or firing). If you for a minute pause your emotion and passion consider this is what he has to work with on the top two lines (stats are career averages over full seasons):
Gomez: 15 G
Cammalleri: 22 G
Kostitsyn: 22 G
Gionta: 26 G
Plekanec: 21 G
Martin is working with what he has, a decent 2nd NHL group of FWDs with a fractured defense corp. Time has caught up with this roster as desperate (or very good teams) face them in the stretch drive. What the HABS lack up front they make up with better than average defense who are in hospital: Markov, Georges and Spacek.
Even a healthy roster is at best a final four (re: 2009/10).
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The most positive thing I can think of to do right now is to give the kids big minutes.
What’s the point of giving Gomez 18 minutes? We have $18 million bucks skating around in a doze. Cammi I think is hurt, so get him off the ice. Gio, Kostitsyn and Gomez have no such excuse.
Let the kids play lots, at least they should have some energy, and it will pay off for us next year.
I don’t care if Gio, Kostitsyn and Gomez never touch our ice again. Play the Hamilton kids.
Kostitsyn played better than most.
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Eller showed so much energy and he played half the time Gomez was on the ice. How ridiculous is that?
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Martin will never play the kids, he skates the vets into the ice. So when the 3rd period comes around, he can play the old legs even more.!!!!
Dunno.. Cammalleri was acquired as a 39-goal scorer if I’m not mistaken..
Gionta has scored 50 in his career.
Plekanec would probably score heaps more if he wasn’t used as a penalty killer so much.
And after their departures, Grabovski has 28g and is +14, Sergei is close to 20g and D’Agostini is close to 20g.
It probably works both ways.
Since Pacioretty left, the things are going downwards. Could use another winger with size.
Too bad a player like James Neal or Dustin Penner was not available at the deadline!!
(although we have no tradeable assets).
I see Dustin Penner and James Neal have been lighting it up since their trades.
Too bad a player like James Neal or Dustin Penner was not available at the deadline!!
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you figure out a way. but it doesnt help when you had traded away five #2s and a #1 over the previous 3 years and you dont have a roster full of many talented young players on entry level contracts so you didnt have to overpay for other free agents and you had no cap room. TWO OF THE STUPIDEST GMs IN TODAYS NHL!
The FWDs can only do so much when you have deep holes on DEF. Nobody on this roster and few in the league can move the puck 5/5 or PP like Markov. WISZY is good, not Markov great.
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so you say in 8 years gainey and gauthier did a terrible job of stocking this team? i agree with you!
Hey Martin!
did you hear what Geoff Molson said.? He wants you and Gauthier in his office, first thing in the morning.!
say what? you constantly knocked me for saying gauthier and gainey were flunkies here. gauthier everywhere!
Hey Observer, doesn’t the “history of losing leafs” have a website you can visit???
dont keep changing the topic to “the leafs stink worse” – fact is they will be so much better next year than the habs because burke knows what he is doing, has his entire core signed and has $25 million in cap space. while these old goofs have a bunch of d-men free agents, overpaid other free agents, gomez $7 million yoke around their neck – leafs will outdistance habs next year as long as these old fools are still running the habs in a month.
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He’s gonna tell ‘em he’s checked league rules and, yes, a team’s emergency call-ups can include a coach.
Geoff wants to know why Dawes was sent down….
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If Geoff wants …I’ll pick them up with my new Tractor ..no charge !
I’ll pay the dump charges Steve.!
Where to begin? That was hard to watch. No shots, no scoring chances, Holtby probably can’t remember an easier shut-out, maybe in atom, nope….not even then.
Plekanecs has to be hurt, he was terrible, he was having a great year, earning every penny. The last four games, terrible.
Gomez is doing nothing right. Anyone who says he is playing better simply doesn’t know hockey. On his breaks he stick handles into traffic and coughs it up, he never shoots, and his passes are off the mark. Brutal.
Eller may have been the Habs best player, besides Price of course.
I’m tired of watching Martin mumble to himself after giving up soooo many penalties. Man, we are slow right now, and we are giving up 6-7 power plays “every” game. Gauranteed. Something is wrong, any other coach would be screaming bloody murder by now. His mannerism’s are simply not getting thru. It’s sad how after we win a few Martin gets so much credit. Don’t you think any other good coach would do the same, and I don’t mean Carbonneau.
If I was a betting man, I would say were mailing it in to finish in 7th or 8th. It doesn’t look like they want any part of Boston, who are a lock to finish 3rd. Maybe this losing streak is all but planned.
Cammy must also be hurting badly, he’s been terrible. There were moments in our own end when all five guys were playing the “box” and 1, basically a zone defense. No pressure, just keep everybody to the outside. You can’t go from flat footed to speed with a click of a button.
THe team right now is lifeless. The coach seems to be always lifeless, we must be hurt, banged up, severely, otherwise, it’s just a tired small team with no push back, no pressure, no forecheck, and basically an easy game for any good team.
I was hoping for a real push back tonight, especially at home.
Well……………at least the leafs loss. Way to go Wings!!!
When you pay non-elite players top-end salaries to play elite-level minutes, you are going to struggle to produce goals.
When you play a rope-a-dope system that allows the other team to control possession (made worse by being poor on faceoffs) you are going to struggle to score goals.
It’s not rocket science. We’re almost the same team we were a year ago, needing a goaltending miracle to win anything.
Last year’s run painted over a lot of rust. The holes are starting to show through again.
I suggest the Habs and especially the coaching staff look at the Detroit-Toronto game video. Here you will see how to block the goalie.
I don’t pretend to be an expert; just a die-hard Habs fan passing my opinion
One person is responsible for this mess and he resigned last year knowing full well I expect that he had inadvertently taken the organization down the wrong road.
I don’t pretend to be an expert; just a die-hard Habs fan passing my opinion
Don’t blame Bob Gainey you’ll have hordes of lemmings attack you and all they’ll talk about is 77 points.
8 years and this is the result! the man is a fraud so is gauthier.
since 49? so you remember the last time they were shutout thrice in a row?
So for the Quick Hits/About Last Night picture you should just up a big pile of poo.
Either the Habs are suddenly the worst team in the NHL or they’re locked in one powerful slump-o-rama that they’ll soon snap out of in a big way. My money’s on the latter. Some of it, anyway.
Looks like we picked a bad time to slump…
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RIP Leslie
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject”–Winston Churchill
Why is this an especially bad time for a slump? Not that there is a good time for a slump, but if one is unavoidable, this is the time to have it.
The playoffs are all but assured (realistically, need maybe 2 wins in the last 7 games). There’s some fighting with seeding but we’re not likely to drop very far out of 6th. There was an outside chance at 5th or 3rd, but the runway was getting short so it was already a long shot.
We’re not used to this at this time of year, but the games just aren’t particularly meaningful anymore. A bad time to go into a slump would have been, oh, I dunno, round one of the playoffs. Better now than then.
re: Don Cherry
Nobody in their right mind (really) cares about anything he has to say. He is the “WWE” for HNIC i.e. a good laugh at somebody’s expense.
p.s. Most people are bitter towards somebody when fired and in Cherry’s case it’s the Montreal Canadiens.
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