Montreal Canadiens: Injury-Man Strikes Again!

Adding to that, it is also Carey Price's big time. Right now, he has to cope with the loss of his best shot-blocker. As if it wasn't enough, the team seems to find some wierd interest to the penalty bench recently. In those occasions, the goalie needs to be at his best.

If Carbo can keep the remaining roster in the right direction, by the time everyone will be back, the spring run can be really fun to watch.

So far, the coach has to modify his pre-game speech from "impose your rythm" to "get some rythm, stop high sticking and hooking people, skate faster, and keep shooting".
Indeed, since the third period agains the Sens last Monday, his players seem to play their garage-league hockey instead of showing themselves as the best team in the Eastern Conference.

If we take a look at the current playoff run, Cristobal Huet blanked the Panthers yesterday. The former Habs goalie and his team can barely see the light at the end of the tunnel, but they know it is still there, and they are willing to do whatever is left possible to get to it. Somehow, just by watching the way Huet plays his winning cards recently, along with Ovechkin, I am not that thrilled anymore to see the Habs finish first !

I still remember Ovechkin's four goals against Montreal the last time the two teams met. You take this four-goals ability, you add Huet's motivation to play Simple Plan's "You'll miss me when I'm gone" at the Bell Center, and you get an interesting first round.

Nevertheless, for the weeks to come, Montreal needs to go with "I get knocked down, but I get up again, you'll never gonna keep me down (...)" as a theme song !

If needed, Coach, get yourself a lucky tie! Price, start talking to your pipes and avoid skating on the lines ! Everyone, put on your left skate first; get out of the dressing room in a specific order, and use that same order to shoot two pucks each to the net at the end of the warm-ups !

Jokes aside (some teams and players actually do that!), they are one point away from the division title which will ensure at least the second spot for the playoff run. A win over the Sens will guarantee it, like a win over the Leafs yesterday would have.  

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