Winning streak ends. Habs lose 4 - 2

[Church]

That game was so bad I impulse bought an Nvidia Shield Tablet during the 3rd period.

Discuss.

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[expy]

Costliest player cost us the 2nd goal which broke the legs of the team.

Poor performance team-wide.

Pacioretty and Sekac about the only players that looked like they cared.

 

[CH25]

Undiscipline (or bad reffing whichever way you want to see it) killed the Habs tonight.

Also every time PJ Stock is on l'Antichambre the Habs lose. Hate that ****ing grin on his face.

 

[nyhabsfan]

Habs don't show up

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[sheed36]

After that 7-1 embarrassment to Tampa earlier this season I'm very disappointed in the Habs lack of effort tonight. On second thought maybe Tampa is just that much better than what the Habs are. Still disappointing to watch since I expected more from the Habs tonight.

 

[Tyson]

Can't win them all but the leadership on this team tonight did not step up, especially Pernell Karl

 

[Krautso]

Can't win em all. One to forget. Tampa is a good team and there were just too many mistakes. Time to start a new streak next game.

 

[CH25]

I can't even remember the last time the Habs beat the Lightning in the regular season.

Positive thing is we still have 2 games in hand.

 

[Andy]

The better team won.

The Habs could have squeezed out a win if they had a competent powerplay. Gotta get that fixed. It's almost two seasons now.

Plekanec, Weise and DD all looked good. Don't have much else to say about the rest of the team. They were poor. Eller's line was brutal offensively tonight.

After the first, it was no contest for Tampa. People will use the penalties as an excuse, but the Habs had an opportunity early in the game and failed to capitalize as usual.

Carey wasn't there to bail them out tonight.

 

[Tyson]

After that 7-1 embarrassment to Tampa earlier this season I'm very disappointed in the Habs lack of effort tonight. On second thought maybe Tampa is just that much better than what the Habs are. Still disappointing to watch since I expected more from the Habs tonight.

I would say that Tampa is a better team...better offensively by quite a lot, defensively I would say it's close and goaltending is close. Tampa way more skilled

 

[Frankenheimer]

I dont feel any of the usual post-loss pain.

 

[Markov4Captain]

L'Antichambre going out of their way to persecute Subban makes me sick.

 

[expy]

i can't even remember the last time the habs beat the lightning in the regular season.

Positive thing is we still have 2 games in hand.

sat, 28 dec 2013

 

[missthenet]

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Obviously we need a few more quality players. Tampa has way to many horses for us to handle in a seven game series. Badly outshot and outplayed. Powerplay still sucks maybe we could bring back Kirk Muller for the PP. Price was left out to dry way to many times. Gal henyukmhas been doing not much lately wonder if there is a problem?

 

[nyhabsfan]

3rd D pairing were god awful
PK with a stupid penalty
Price off his game
Eller couldn't make a 2 foot pass for a BJ
Galchenyuk even made poor decisions in the O zone
Nobody played well
LOSS

You would think the 7-1 embarrassment would have given them motivation

 

[OldCraig71]

Costliest player cost us the 2nd goal which broke the legs of the team.

Poor performance team-wide.

Pacioretty and Sekac about the only players that looked like they cared.

I like Sekac but he was horrible tonight.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

I dont feel any of the usual post-loss pain.

Meh, we were due. I'm living with it very well.

Bad bounces + indiscipline + ref having it out for you is just bad news all around.

 

[expy]

I like Sekac but he was horrible tonight.

I didn't say he was good, but at least he looked like he was actually giving an effort to get the puck.

 

[Hoople]

That game was so bad I impulse bought an Nvidia Shield Tablet during the 3rd period.

Discuss.

How much?

 

[Tyson]

If the Habs don't improve their power play and their starts they will not contend. These two areas have to be fixed. They also have an abundance of young players and they should leverage this for a good forward...I am sure Bergevin will do something eventually.
At the deadline the Habs need a Vanek type trade such as maybe bringing in Jagr!

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Oh well, team has been red hot lately... onto the next game I guess.

 

[Andy]

I would say that Tampa is a better team...better offensively by quite a lot, defensively I would say it's close and goaltending is close. Tampa way more skilled

Tampa's biggest weakness is their defense. The habs didn't exploit that at all tonight. In fairness though, they couldn't really exploit it, Tampa played a good team defense and prevented the Canadiens from getting much momentum in the neutral zone. They did a great job at getting to the dump-ins first, thereby stifling any cycle play.

The only way offense was generated tonight was on the counter-attack. Sadly only Plekanec's line was able to generate turn-overs to create odd-men counter attacks.

 

[missthenet]

L'Antichambre going out of their way to persecute Subban makes me sick.

Subban was terrible tonight and took a really selfish penalty. Hengets paid to play defense and score goals the goofy stuff is for Weise and Prust.

 

[ninjagaiden]

does anyone have a capture of that hooking call on desharnais at the end? i just don't think you make those calls so close to the end of a game but i didn't see it very good

however i think the habs had an off night, they absolutely can play with tampa when they are skating and simplify their game a bit

stop getting fancy trying to make the extra pass so much

 

[CH25]

To be honest I don't think Bishop is that great. He had a good season last year but he's not a Vezina quality goalie.