The day we let it slip : Montreal Canadiens 2-4 Boston Bruins (Game 1)
Ladies and gentlemen of this fine city, stand up and give your Montreal Canadiens a bit of credit, because for all the crap they’ve taken from you during this season, that was a pretty heroic effort they put in last night against the supposedly ‘Big Bad Bruins’.
Life isn’t fair, eh? And hockey’s even less fair than life.
In a game where we pretty much dominated the second half, a 4-2 loss wasn’t the correct indication of how the game was played out.
It wasn’t for lack of effort, but rather for lack of discipline. If Josh Gorges hadn’t taken that useless penaty which lead to Fuckara’s winner, I have a feeling we had a slightly better chance of winning that game.
The B’s raced off to a 2-0 start, and all the ‘analysts’ wet their pants in the thoughts of their dreams coming true in actually correctly predicting a series.
But low and behold, the game still had to be played!!!! And the Canadiens went to work.
Chris Higgins scored finished off a beauty of a passing play past the sprawling Tim Thomas, and then Alex Kovalev tied it all up with some vintage Russian Kovy.
Did we put a bit of doubt in their heads? Yes.
Were the 12 Boston fans at the TD Banknorth Garden starting to turn on their team? Yes.
Did I enjoy my cheese sticks? Damn right.
You can say ll you want about George Laraque’s worth to the team, but he got into Chara’s head. Tell yourself he didn’t if you want, but hey, whatever helps you sleep at night.
Glen Metropolit played a very solid game, and he’s quickly becoming one of my favorite players.
Kovy did the best a man with a 7 foot gorilla on his back could, can’t be fulted. Saku battled hard, and that’s the captain’s job. His couple of hits on the B’s captain left Chara going: “Vat dee hell? Dat vas Saku? I thought he like me!”
Plekanec played 10 minutes and didn’t help the team at all. Pleks has to be better if he has a future here. Do you think Bob will sit him for a game and tell Sergei to play at center? Maybe the brother can get something going? They did come out of the same vagina…
Oh yeah, FUCK YOU GUY CARBONNEAU for almost driving Dandy out of this team. He played an almost perfect game last night and was one of our most physical D men. Give him 2 more years Bob. He finished a fucken shift with a fucken broken arm. Do you guys realise how much a broken arm hurts?
Carey did pretty well, but he should have held onto that puck for the Kessel goal. Mike Komisarek played better, and Roman Hamrlik put in a very good 25 minutes of hockey.
I’m not getting carried away, but Anaheim did it to San Jose last night. The Sharks are still trying to figure out how they got shut out. We’re gona have to play a perfect game, but it can be done.
I will keep repeating it: this version of the Boston Bruins isn’t as good as people make them out to be. Yes, they played just well enough to earn a win last night, but they can be beaten. Their first 2 goals were mistakes on our part, and if we cut out the mistakes from our game, we have a good chance of doing something good. They move the puck well and have a scary powerplay, but that can be countered if we play our best. That’s the thing: they force teams to be almost perfect to beat them, but I still believe this team can pull it off.
There are favorites and there are underdogs, that’s what sports are all about. But judging from last night, I think the players in black and yellow are starting to think this might not be as easy as they thought after all.
Hey, I guess that’s why they play the games?
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