Fire Everyone, Boston Beat us!

by blockersave93 on Feb 12, 2011 9:39 AM EST

Hopefully last night's game between Boston and Detroit brought us back to reality. While Boston can revel in the penalty fest a few nights ago and uninformed fans think that Boston is set up for a playoff run to the cup and will thrash the Habs along the way...that ain't exactly reality. To act like the entire Habs lineup needs to be changed due to 1 loss is also lunacy.

Detroit, a fast puck possession team that is responsible defensively (who does that remind you of?) dismantled those same big bad bruins. Furthermore, if the season series was a playoff series, we'd be one win away from the next round. Combine that with the fact we have been to score on the likely Vezina winner all year and remember our powerplay that was stinking up the joint kept us in the game with a couple of goals and looked good against a "good" defensive team, what'll happen if we play a hockey game next time? The insanity that happened the other night would have led to us easily winning if there was any interest in backchecking or doing what this team should do, let a "bigger" team (Phily, Boston, etc) take extra penalties against us and score on resulting powerplays.

The B's won a game...in February...when they scored a ton because Montreal played one of it's worst games of the year...who gives a rats ass. Gauthier has gotten past the fervor and asinine belief we need to get bigger, we need to get a responsible second line winger to replace AK in the next 16 days.

As Detroit was kind enough to remind us last night, the cup isn't going through Boston...and even if we gotta go through them, I like our chances. As a Wings fan tweeted yesterday, "Bruins lead the league in fights. Personally, I think leading the NHL in points is much more important."

Poll

What do the Habs need more?

An Enforcer to chase Lucic around and never get to fight him cuz Lucic is a fraud.

4 votes

A puck moving defenseman to replace one of our old horses

5 votes

A scoring winger to take the place of AK

12 votes

A center to replace Gomer

10 votes

31 votes | Poll has closed

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i guess i’m the only guy to read this. too bad, cause other sb-nation sites are really popular (like that of my denver broncos).
Great write-up. If gomez can be convinced to not suck, or be traded for actual talent, our 2nd line wingers will be fine. just think how well big tits was playing with plex

by mast on Feb 12, 2011 11:52 AM EST reply actions

SBnation is such a great platform for blogging interactions, I wish EOTP would attract more traffic too.

Unfortunately, Gomez is practically untradable until his cap hit exceeds his salary, so I would be happy with a winger who brings something different and can replace AK if the habs don’t keep him (After all those rumors, getting Penner would be great).

by Hypnotoad on Feb 13, 2011 12:58 AM EST up reply actions