Catching up with the Canadiens

Saturday night my Habs played against the Rangers again, this time in a home game. Habs won, 3-2 with Price in net. The habs played great (not saying it was perfect, see my notes on the third), and what thrilled me was that they lead in shots 41-33 overall. The first 2 periods were great, Habs lead in shots both periods and offense played well. What I DIDN'T like was, once the Habs had the lead the went and SAT ON IT. This is typical Habs fashion. Just look at the third period if you don't believe me! Outshot 21-12. That's horrendous, and disgusting. It means they slacked, and got over confident. It means they lost focus. It means that the Rangers got 21 of their 33 shots in the 3rd period alone! AWFUL! The Habs are lucky that they didn't lose the game.

Yesterday (Monday), the Habs played the Flames at home in Montreal. And THIS GAME is a prime example of what I was talking about in the Rangers game. Sitting on the lead, and then blowing it. Habs won 5-4, but it was the most awful, gut-wrenching disgusting win EVER. And this is why: The first half of the games, my Habs were dominating. Until halfway through 2nd period, they were leading. And WHAT was the score you ask? 4-0. And then they hit the halfway mark of the 2nd period, and decided that they won and stopped playing. Flames came back to push the game to a tie....The Flames caught up to a 4 goal lead!! 4 GOALS!! It's unacceptable. They pulled Auld from net, and put in Price. The game was forced to go into overtime, and lucky for the Habs the wonderfulness that is P.K. Subban managed to save the game and score the winning goal. I love that kid. I mean seriously love him. He better stay a Hab forever.

But it shouldn't have come to an overtime goal. It shouldn't have come down to the wire. It should have been a solid win. It was everything a game should NOT have been. So even though we won, it wasn't really a win to me. There was so many things wrong with the game that it didn't feel like a victory, but a step backwards.

At the very least, we managed to scrape out another win and now sit 6th in the conference. So I guess that's something to be happy about. All I say is they better not fall apart like last season.