Gee I wonder why you are rooting for us...lol
Sorry to disappoint you but we aint sweeping the Habs.
We had to win one of these first two at the Bell Centre to insure that the series goes 6 or 7 and we did that.
Habs will come out on Friday knowing that their season is on the line and I anticipate they will likely play alot better than they did tonight.
Can we win that game? Of course we can. Will we?
I'd think the odds of us doing so are pretty slim. I think my mindset is same as the players and team. They knew as I did so long as we got a split at the Bell Centre, that was the goal and we accomplished that. As I said a few times in the thread, the 1st game on the road in the playoffs is usually the game the road team can steal and we did with flying colors.
For us to beat them twice? That would be amazing but I doubt it pretty highly.
I do think we are going to need to win one more game at the Bell Centre tho and it's likely going to be either Game 5 or Game 7. I hate to say this but I think we likely are not going to win Game 2 but hopeful tho. I hope I'm wrong but I think the Canadians are going to figure out a way to win a game at MSG. I really really hope I'm wrong about this but considering our struggles this year at home, how can I not think that Habs take one of our home games.
If they do, I'd obviously rather us win a Game 5 rather seeing we could end it at our barn for Game 6. I did predict before series tho we'd win it in 7 so anyway we slice and dice it unless we protect home ice we need to win one more game at the Bell Centre in order to advance to 2nd round.
Hopefully we can pull off a surprise on Friday. I'd think Hank would have to possibly pitch another shutout for that too occur.
All I know is that I'm going to sleep very very well. We got the job done and stole one at the Bell Centre. What a great win....