Pre-game
- Carey Price is going to get a shut out today, book it.
- The Canucks top LW is…squints…Antoine Roussel. Wait, what?
- I have a really good feeling about this game. Prove me right, Habs!/
First Period
- Today’s game will feature a battle between Finland and Sweden. I wonder who’s side Patrik is on?
- An early Montreal power play. No, really…the good guys got on the man advantage literally less then a minute in.
- Charles Hudon is setting teammates up left, right, and centre. The best of these go to Delauriers who just misses putting the Habs on the board first.
- Back-to-back penalties for the Canadiens, who just can’t seem to keep their sticks on the ice.
- Carey Price’s red pads are gloriously distracting.
- As the buzzer sounds, neither team is able to break the deadlock. Not a bad start for the Habs./
Second Period
- The Canucks are testing a new grit it out strategy. Let’s see if it pays off.
- Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Tomas Tatar continues to do what he always does and puts the Habs up 1-0.
- Perennial whipping boy Jeff Petry is quietly tied for 8th in the NHL for scoring by defencemen.
- Darn that Del Zotto for ruining my prediction. Tie game.
- A power play to end the period didn’t do much to help the Habs.
- At least it is still a tie game./
Third Period
- Early penalty? No problemo. The Habs penalty kill is on point.
- Claude Julien has the most interesting reactions when he is angry.
- The young Swede on the wrong team puts the bad guys up a goal on a garbage call.
- But Andrew Shaw responds in kind! Take that you smelly Canucks!
- The hockey gods giveth and the hockey gods taketh. In this case, it is Drouin’s turn to shine.
- Well I was nearly right./
Highlight of the Night
#Habs score eight seconds into Del Zotto’s penalty, Drouin scores his seventh of the year. pic.twitter.com/e8xCpDiAJB
— Scott Matla (@scottmatla) November 18, 2018
EOTP 3 Stars
3) TUNA TATAAAAARE!
2) Quite the finish.
1) The return of Price de Nice!
