Canadiens vs. Hurricanes Top Six Minutes: Somnolence

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WE GET JOHNSON.

First Period

• Oh hey. Byron is playing.
• Joe. Joe, why? I have a bad feeling about this.
• At least they killed it off. I cannot emphasise enough how much I enjoy having Mike Johnson as the colour commentator.
• Uhg. Don't remind me of the last Carolina disaster.
• Do. Not. Touch. Jeff.
• I do not know when this happened, but I have become the person who yells "No!" at the TV when the other team looks like they're about to score...
• ...I did not need to see the replay of Byron going shoulder first into the boards on Monday...
• Joe Morrow just missed redeaming his silly penalty. Also, Drouin is good at hockey
• “Julien wants a penalty." You and me both, dude.
• Apparently shots are 5-0 for Carolina with 6:20 to go. This is fine. Everything is fine.
• *chants quietly* Carey, Carey!
• Almost Gally goal!! (And by that, I mean,  Gally nearly ended up in the net.)
• Please stop crushing Jeff.
• That was a very, very nifty play by Drouin.
• Well, that was certainly a very entertaining end to a very slow beginning./

Second Period

• Those were some very dashing pocket squares from our announcers.
• Price made that save look so incredibly easy.
• Of course that's how they score. Of course.
• Wow. The Canes have been whiffing on a lot of pucks tonight.
• Remember when our biggest issue was Alexei Emelin? Good times.
• (I mean, Emelin and a billion other things too, but shh)
• The amount of headdesk-ing I'm doing re: Benn and that penalty is going to give me a headache. STOP PUTTING PLAYERS INTO YOUR GOALIE. STOP DOING IT. DON'T. STOP. CEASE AND DESIST.
• Dear Gally, I appreciate your effort, but you can't score like that.
• On the other hand, please don't punch Gally./

Third Period

• Well. Geez. That's a great start to the third.
• Thank you Carey.
• So bored.
• Thank you Carey.
• Have I mentioned how boring this has gotten?
• Carey is 100% the most interesting part of this period.
• Make that the only interesting player in this period.
• Crowd doesn't like the no call...buuuut I think that might actually be one of those instances where calling a diving call and a tripping call would actually be the logical and right thing to do.
• So the pattern of the other two periods has returned. It's almost exactly half way through the frame, and the Habs are no longer playing in a soporific manner.
• I may have spoken too soon.
• When Deslauriers has one of the best chances of the night, it is not a good sign. I mean, obviously it is for him, but not so much for the rest of the team.
• It's just one goal. They're just down one goal. Yet this game feels impossibly far out of reach.
• Wow. Alzner with a nice play there. That was not what I would have expected.
• Yeah, that's about the size of it. (Where was literally anyone not named Carey Price on that play?)
• Dear lord, just put us out of our misery already..
• That's not what I meant.
• “If they can maintain control of the puck.” Yes, when have they done that at any time during this period.
• Carey Price did not deserve this.
• Habs lose 2-0./

Highlight of the night

Nope.

EOTP 2 Stars