Canadiens @ Golden Knights Game 2 Top Six Minutes: Cooling the red-hot Knights

For our new readers and members, the Top Six Minutes is a continuation of the discussion in the game thread. We try to keep it light and entertaining. Full recaps are up the morning after every game.

Pre-Game Thoughts:

• Playing hockey in 45 degree heat? THAT SOUNDS LIKE FUN!
• Hey, a win here would be sweeter than sugar!
• “Why do we fall, Master Bruce? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”/

First period:

• Last time I wrote one of these, Montreal dominated and took an early lead thanks to Joel Armia #FinnishFury
• Let’s hope for a repeat tonight, right?
• LET’S HOPE FOR A REPEAT TONIGHT, RIGHT!!!
• #ArmiPower #JoJoRobbit #JoJoRepeat #RidiculousHashtagSeason
• Petry’s eye frightens me.
• And The Eye follows its master to the box for a tripping minor.
• Killing penalties? No problem.
• Slaying knights on ice in 45 degree heat? No problem.
• “Toffoli working on a seven-game point-streak.”
• Let’s make it eight, shall we?
• LET’S MAKE IT EIGHT, SHALL WE!!!!
• And who dishes out the assist? Cole freakin’ Caufield, man!
• To quote almighty robot skeleton Geoff Peterson: “I think I’m in looove!”
• It’s a two-goal lead going into the second./

Second Period:

• Pizza seems to have replaced poutine as the favoured type of food in Montreal at the moment.
• Phil Danault has promoted it well #NotAnAd/

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• Patches hits the inside of the post. He didn’t want to score.
• Carey Price is awake and In. Da. Zone.
• How on Earth did Alec Martinez not score there?
• Correction: How did Carey Price get a piece on that?
• Killing penalties? Not a problem.
• Slaying knights? Not a problem.
• Patches whiffed on the best opportunity of the PP.
• He doesn’t want to score. Carey’s his buddy.
• Lord Paul does it again and we have a 3-0-game!
• Anderson kicks the stick of the Vegas D-man to let the puck pass through for the Byron breakaway.
• And whaddaya know. Jesperi Kotkaniemi has his inaugural playoff assist after previously scoring eight goals in 21 playoff games.
• Hold out until the period break!
• Or don’t.
• You can’t let point shots pass through that much traffic in front of Price.
• Staal sticks up for Perry. Seniors unite!
• It’s a two-goal lead going into the third./

Third period:

• Carey denies Alex Tuch on a breakaway.
• Is the crowd really chanting: “Go Price Go!”?
• Would’t surprise me. Vegas wants entertainment. Who cares about who’s winning in the end, right?
• The Habs power play sure hasn’t disappointed us tonight.
• But that’s only because there hasn’t been one yet.
• Eddy’s just eating minutes and thriving. Why were the Canes not able to use him in a more advantageous role?
• Play it tight, knock it away.
• It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t have to be at this point.
• Yup, that happens when you take an icing and your players are dead tired.
• This is a one-goal game with five minutes left to play.
• Price hands the puck to Marchessault in the slot, but untangles his own mistake with the save.
• How slow can three minutes be???
• We survived.
• Slaying knights? Nema problema./

Post-Game Thoughts:

• Nine down. Seven to go./

EOTP 3 Stars

3) He’s now a core member of the team

2) Executing the game plan

1) This is an awful superstition to have to maintain