Thrashers vs. Habs - Gotta Win

Notes on OT and SO:

-Have these guys not heard of the Shooter Tutor? Apparently not, since none of them seem to have a clue where the net might be.

-What a piece of shit hit Kozlov executed on Gomez.

-The Habs have no luck at all. None. Hot goalies against the Habs are NOT a myth.

-Cammalleri on the shootout...not so much.

-Gomez! Gionta! A win! Thank the lord.


Notes on the third:

-32 games without a goal for Pacioretty. Does Gainey need a letter from God to send him to Hamilton?

-Gill's now inherited my Most Hated Hab title. It's been vacant since David Aebischer.

-Bergeron should not be in the game in the third. He's hurt and he's playing stupid.

-Speaking of them, Bergeron and Gill should, under any circumstances, be on the ice together. It's like putting Breezer and a Tim Horton's pee wee out there.

-McGuire's left off blowing Komisarek long enough to blow Kane. Once you go black, Pierre...

-Habs couldn't score on a 6-on-0 on an empty net.



Notes on the second:

-Habs fire more blanks than a guy with a vasectomy.

-Watching TSN tonight, despite McGuire. Speaking of which: McGuire's first Homoerotic Comment of the Game (HCOG) so far is "Cammalleri in the neutral zone, not hard enough."

-I hate how the Habs' backup goalie is always pushed off to the side instead of sitting with the rest of the team.

-Kostitsyn can backcheck like Carbo when he tries. Wait...did I say that?

-Maybe Chipchura should have been a second baseman. That was a nice catch over his head to help clear the zone.

-Dear Santa, I know it's early to ask, but could we have a left winger for Tomas Plekanec? We've been really good, we promise.

-I liked Spacek on Kovalchuk. The kid is awesome, but the wily vet knows what he's doing.

-Colby Armstrong is a dangerous little shit, and if the NHL doesn't censure him for that around-the-net crap he pulls, it might as well call hockey players gladiators.

-Gomez is as precise as a compass on his passes tonight. It's the best I've seen him as a Hab.

-Travis Moen is as singleminded as a two-year-old begging for cookies when he's headed for the net. Too bad he doesn't have better hands.

-Could Lats, D'Agostini and Chipchura have found some chemistry together on the Last Chance Line?

-It worries me that these guys just can't score, no matter how much they dominate. Hoping the third doesn't become the new second here.



Notes on the first:

-I still can't decide if it's a measure of the Thrashers' improvement or the Habs' desperation that they kind of MUST beat Atlanta tonight.

-If Hal Gill was Ryan O'Byrne, he wouldn't be playing.

-Habs need to have slightly more ambition with the puck than just "get it out." It's like the kid who thinks 51% will get him into university.

-Kovalchuk is an absolute beast. The only thing he doesn't do is growl.

-It's official. Those two early posts make Gomez The More Expensive Higgins.

-Lots of Czechs on the ice tonight. I wonder if Hammer, Spacek and Pleks are trash-talking the kid goalie in his mother tongue?

-Anybody else think the training camp plan of Martin to have the D jump up into the offence seems really, really unrealistic at this point?

-I'm guessing if this is turns out to be a goalie duel, the Czech versus the Slovak is as big as Billy the Kid versus Pat Garrett in their minds.

-Latendresse sucks harder than a teenager with his first girlfriend this season. The game's going to have a hickey.

-Bergeron said today he's not trying to be Andrei Markov. Hamrlik should take that to heart himself. He's doing great, but trying to be a little too Markov on the PP.

-Still haven't seen the allegedly terrifying shot by Bergeron. Do we have to wait until Halloween?

-D'Agostini looks like he finally got around to reading Newton's first law.

-I wonder what it will take for Gainey to re-sign Plekanec before he ends up on a division rival? Sometimes his somnambulism kills me.

-Gionta's like the food they send to space with astronauts: compact, but lots of nutrition. The man can shoot!

-Biggest problem with Pacioretty is he can't hit the net. If he recalibrates the scope, he'll be fine.

-Anyone notice when the Habs goalie has two choices of defencemen to whom to pass, he almost always picks Gorges? Interesting.

-Halak looks solid. He's going to have to keep it up, because this team isn't exactly Les Glorieux anymore.