MN DOWN TO 6

The Magic Number is down to six points after another win against the Bruins last night. More importantly however, we still have the upper hand against the Sens. I would sleep much better at night however if we had a minimum of 4.5 NL points lead against.

Carey Price was simply spectacular last night. He was sharp, focused, fast and well p[laced. His puck handling had one or two scary moments, but all in all it helped our transition game immensely. This is where Price excels against Halak (and why his joib is not in trouble) because if Price doesn’t have his puck working abilities behind the net, last night’s game against the hard checking, hard hitting and hard skating Bruins would have been no different from our game against St. Louis.

The Alex Kovalev show hosted another spectacular set of reels last night, and I believe that second goal will be on the top ten goals of the year in the NHL. It appears when Tomas is facing Kovalev the puck seems like the size of a raisin.

I am eagerly waiting to hear what Komisarek’s situation is. “Lower body injuries” are usually long ones if the player can’t even finish the game with some patch work. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

It was nice to see Andrei Kostitsyn get more ice time on the point during the power play. It’s times like this I wonder if Carbo and myself are twins separated at birth, or whether he comes on here to read my posts. Either way its good to know that hockey sense prevails both in the HABS locker room and in here.

The Booins (being the dirty bastards they are against us) had their goons on the ice (once more) to end the game and “set-the tone” for the next game. The only thing they set was their grave, and this was in part thanks to the referees. They really did us a favour last night for once. Now don’t freak out…I did see the missed call on Tomas against Maxim Lapierre (similar move that cost Ray Emery a three game suspension) and how that resulted in a rush, and another missed call on goaltender interference against the Bruins, which incidentally lead to a goal. This incident worked in a favour in the long run. We were up 4-1, and another power play would have meant nothing. Getting scored on towards the end, getting cheated out of a power play, and having the reffs blatantly ignore calls to help the “underdog” in their eternal efforts for parity in the league is exactly the type of motivation this team needs to stay away from over confidence. If we had won that game 5-1, we would have approached the Saturday game at home against a team who are 0-7 against us, expecting the two points to fall on our laps. Those last few minutes and events however should (hopefully) light enough of a fire to keep the team focused, working, skating and hungry for the win.

Now I must go eat. I’m on a long weekend, so eggs, bacon, pancakes, beans, crepes, potatoes and ham all covered in maple syrup for me. Tis the weekend for all the luxuries in life!