Round 2, Game 3: Canadiens can't solve Flyers, Biron

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Will Hatcher be getting at least one game suspension or not?.....what about that Philly player who skated by Halak and purposely bumped him in the face to get him off his game? Didn't the league just change a rule where a player can't intentionally "annoy" the goaltender? He should get some kind of discipline as well otherwise he's bound to do it again.

All i have to say is Flyers are fluking their way to win games, Despite being outshot 14-34 last game they still got 3 in... We dominate the games and they still win.. Last 2 games was total domination from us I dont know how we didnt put those games away.. Next game is going to decide our fate, if we win game 4 we will win the series if we lose. Its golf time for us, because i dont know if we can come back from a 3 1 defecit against a team taht feeds on easy flukie goals.

Whats wrong with Price? I dont know this is the first time ive seen him shaky for 3 games in a row, I think he really got shaken up from those bad games and might not come back until we either win or start dominating. Its do or die next game, I trust Carbo and his descisions, we still not in a 3 1 hole so there is still hope for us to bounce back and win this series against the dirty team.

Last time Carbo went with his starter over Halak in a do-or-die game like this one - the last game of last season - we ended up publicly regretting it. I don't pretend to know what he should do, but I wonder if that regret will factor into his decision tomorrow night at all?

1. www.flickeringpictures.com - not a hockey site, but still kinda neat
2. Josh Gorges on Montreal's attack: "They're comin', they're comin' and they keep comin'. Just line after line, wave after wave..."

Price needs to sit for a game or 2 to regain some focus. Does anyone know where Alex Kovalev is? I don't know who that guy is wearing sweater #27, whomever he is he sure coughs the puck up alot but it compliments his floating pretty well.
I bet anybody a dollar that that Halek steals game 4. Any takers?

habs are totally capable of beating the flyers. The problem is, the habs are beating themselves. I notice our D men, keep backpedaling, giving the flyer forwards easy access into our zone, and then they let the flyers move into the slot. Can't do that. Our D men need to stand at the blueline, not give up the blueline, and take out the player. With decent goaltending, we'll beat the flyers. I say put in Halak. He's a good goalie, nothing wrong with him. And if he had played the 1st 3 games, we would be up 3-0 in this series.
Also, habs need to score first, and start the game strong, not sleepwalking, and skate the puck into the flyer zone. stop the dump ins. Our speed will allow us to get behind the flyer defence.
C'mon habs put in that extra effort needed to win!

BTW If I may add something....Habs Prof, good posts !!!!its nice to read something constructive and well written!

Some of you guys are just as soft as our play lastnight. We need to get to the net, get in front of the goalie and score ugly goals. We will win this series but it will have to take a bit more effort and our guys need to stick their noses out there.

you get in front of him so he can't see the shot....it's calling screening the goalie

I hope so, we sure could use the help ....

how do you beat a hot goalie? we out shoot philly by a big margin but biron was stopping everything.we played hard but came up short.i would most deff go with halak in the next game.price looks burnt. go habs goooo!!

First off...painful game to watch again last night. Hopefully the Habs take some positives from it and keep up the pressure in Philly's zone. The hockey gods are definitely on Philly's side thus far through the series. Posts, crossbars, crazy bounces all going the Flyers way.

As for the habs performace, they are not playing horrible but they really need to try and limit the number of turnovers in their own zone and stop panicking inside their own blue line. The defence/wingers have been big contributors to most of the goals against in the series thus far by not gettin the puck out. They have improved a bit since the Boston series but it still isn't good enough.

The last key point is the powerplay. It's funny how different the playoffs are from the regular season. The habs dump ins have been horrible on the PP and the pursuit even worse. The 5 minutes pp in the 3rd was testament to how bad and good the habs pp can be at the same time. They couldn't gain the zone for the first 2 minutes and once they did the Flyers couldn't touch them.

Hopefully Carbo and the rest of the coaches can figure out quickly how to get the habs back to playing their possesion game. If they can, the boys should be alright. Oh and start Price in game 4. If he's shaky again, give him the yank but he has at least earned another shot.

WD, I'm with ya on the good feeling about the series..BUT the AK brothers need a serious injection of GUTS for that to happen...Plus they need to find a way to free up Kovy a bit more, as soon as the puck goes near him he has 2 guys hacking and wacking him. Getting Brisebois back would also help, he makes that first great pass out of their end...

I dont think we should worry about Halak crumbling if he plays. He has nothing to lose, he will carry a lot less pressure and he's older. Last night he didnt face many shots but made a timely save against Thorensen that allowed the habs to have a chance. The only thing wrong with Halak is his last name, Vokoun had the same problem.

lol... was just watching the 3rd period of last night's game. i almost had a heart attack during that last minute or so when we pulled Halak. the chances were there.

another positive, the Flyers had 0 shots on goal during that 2 minute PP with about 3 minutes to play.

i'm not typically a glass-half-full kind of guy, but i feel pretty good about this series. that all could change after Wednesday night mind you, but let's see what Les Boys can bring to Game 4. a solid goaltending performance, some more hard work, and capitalizing on just a few opportunities and this series will go back to Montreal all tied up.

There is nothing worse than losing to a team that you know you can beat.

We finished 1st overall because we are a great team. We persevered over Boston because in the end they didn't have the goods to beat us. So to come to this point and lose against the flyers would be a disappointment, because again we are a better team.

If we were to lose the east to the Pens... so be it, they've stocked up on a lot of weapons...if we were to lose against Detroit or Dallas in the finals, so be it...we can live with that. We can go gracefully with our heads up and high hopes for next season. Our team having taken a giant step towards success in our banner centennial year.

But to lose against these creeps would be a total disaster, utterly devastating along the lines of the Tremblay years...the flash in the pan analysis would follow and mare our great season...Because the defeat would be one of cowardice.

Cheesesteaks have brought their only 2 elements into this series, Goaltending and Gooning.

BIRON has been the difference without a doubt, he has been the most valuable player on both teams and the reason for the 2-1 lead...and for good reason, he is French, Quebecois, a Nordique in blood, the Fleur-de-lis is tattoed across his heart, he has the highest level of passion and hatred driving him to defeat Les Canadiens...and when that force is against you, and its housed in the goalie....you have a high mountain to climb.

GOONING is a reality, it is oppressive, it is painful, it is unforgettable and over time it will defeat you...The Cheesestakes are the Master Gooners. But they are not cut from the same cloth as a Thornton/Morrow, but of the dirty kid on the block, the one who slashes your tires or scratches your paint in the night, the kid who'll hack at your ankle behind the play, the punk who will cry foul and squirm on the ground at the smallest infraction, but wouldn't think twice before delivering a career ending DIRTY hit. If Avery is a Goon then he is 90%talk 10% goon action, well the cheesestakes are the opposite, 90%action, 10% talk.

How has this effected us?

have you seen SKost lately?...I've never seen a player shy away from going into the corners, he was falling on the ice just to avoid contact last night, but he did lite it up late in the third and that'll probably keep him in the lineup. I don't want to get into the negatives on players so I'll stick to the positives...at random:

I thought 84 was an improvement, he delivered some good hits and worked hard in the corners, he is also conscious of getting off a shot when he can, Obryne played well, his physical play is needed, and having him sit near the end was ok because we need Streits offence. Kovy played well and did enough for us to win by setting up Higgs, koivu and basically being strong on the puck and quarterbacking the PP, Begin/Kostop/Smoke/Lap were all excellent, strong/physical...especially when that ba$tard slewfooted Price and all hell broke loose with Begin jumping into the air and taking HATCHET down....

you know there were a lot of great moments last night...if a few didn't squeak by Price, the game would have been ours.

We will win the next one.