Habs vs. Sabres - Buffalo Burger Edition

Notes on the third:

-You know, I've been complaining that the Habs don't shoot enough because they're ranked second-last in the league in that category, but now I think they're only in that position because half the shots they take miss the net and don't count in the stats.

-Moore's been trumps on the draw. Aces on the forecheck too.

-Cammalleri doesn't look like he's missed a moment. MAB's fading as the game goes on.

-Sergei Kostitsyn is just so slick with puck distribution, I wonder what he'd look like centering a couple of good shooters.

-Weird. I just noticed Price is wearing the Centennial goalie mask. I thought he put that one up for auction. Maybe nobody bid on it?

-I can't stand this. Hockey gives and hockey takes away. The Habs own the entire game and blow it with three minutes to go. That's cosmic payback for the Anaheim game they stole.

-You just knew when the Habs got the first four PPs of the game that the make-up calls would come back to haunt them. This tastes like ashes.

-Price looked so rusty in the shootout that if you fell on him, you'd have to get a tetanus shot. He played well up overall though.

Notes on the second:

-Bergeron's goofy smile makes him look like he could be the understudy for the simpleton brother in "My Name Is Earl." He's playing a solid fourth-line game though.

-Usually you don't see Markov being the weak link on the PP, but he's not looking like his usual dominating self so far.

-Boy, when AK wakes up, he wakes up like a sleepwalker in a thunder storm.

-Moore finds the image of himself playing footie with the puck on the big screen hilarious.

-I hate to point out a single guy's weak points, but it seems as though every time I see the Habs struggling to clear the puck, I can see Gill in the middle of the ice, spinning around like a blind ballet dancer.

-What an idiotic penalty by Price. I hate the trapezoid too, but you had to know the refs were waiting for something to call and Price gave them a gift.

-AH...four minutes because Rivet bleeds like a hemophiliac.

-The PK has been solid and Price is playing like the goalie we all want him to be. One more to go for a huge W.



Notes on the first:

-It worries me that Miller is building up a Brodeur-like record against the Habs. We don't need that in the conference!

-You just knew Andrei Kostitsyn was due. He's been closer than hand grenades in the last two games.

-Okay, RDS can stop mourning Lapierre's absence any time now. The guy has sucked all year and I hate to be cliche, but there's absolutely no doubt if his name was Max Pacioretty, nobody on the network would even notice, let alone comment.

-Plekanec was so much better on the draw last year. I don't know what happened to him. I'm sure that's the same thing Billy the Kid's fans were wondering right before he got gunned down in his bedroom.

-Gomez could put a puck through the eye of a needle in the dark. Unfortunately, he can't hit the back of the open net.

-Is it a peril of this time of year that every sheet of ice in the NHL looks like absolute crap, or it it just the Habs' passing?

-That Myers is quite the find. How I wish the Habs had a guy like that!

-Price has started well. He's either decided he's got nothing to lose, or he's too mad at being benched to worry about what happens.

-Gomez slides through the neutral zone like a salmon swimming downstream.

-Pierre McGuire homoerotic comment of the period: "Derek Roy with magician-like use of his stick."

-I think if I had to pick a Sabre to keep, I'd take Hecht. He always plays so well against Montreal.

-Nice period. Let's see if the PP can find itself at the top of the second.