Canadiens vs. Kings Top Six Minutes: Lost my heart to Los Angeles but not the Kings...

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.

Pregame

• A few years a go a left a big chunk of my heart in Los Angeles; never thought I would fall in love with the city, but it did. I still have a playlist with songs about Los Angeles on my phone for a rainy day.
• Silver Lake and Echo Park - what memories.
• I love early games for us in Europe, it rarely happens for Canadiens fans so it is special when we get a chance to see a game during ‘normal’ hours.
• I have beers if needed, Montreal doesn’t seem to like California as much as I do.  /

First Period

• French coverage today, and who sang the anthem?
• We didn’t ice the puck first...? What’s going on?
• MAX PACIORETTY!!!! with an almost empty net he makes no mistake. Montreal has the first goal!
• Note to self, don’t check twitter - your feed is behind!
• Kings seem to have woken up about eight minutes into the game. LA time is weird.
• Jeff Petry with a nice shot, but a real ‘TV Save’ by Mr. Budaj.
• Doughty tries to take L’Arttiste’s head off, well worthy of a Norris winner... right?
• PowerKill™️
• Weak call sends Mitchell to the box.
• Brian Flynn had his passing set to 11, also known as “Paul Byron speed,” for the breakaway chance.
• Pacioretty to the sin-bin. /

Second Period

• Carter with the equalizer on the power play. Will the two PowerKills™️ that Montreal had comeback and haunt them in the end?
• You can’t leave someone alone in front of the net to tap in a rebound...
• It was 8-7 in shots, and 1-0 Montreal - its now 13-8 and 2-1 to LA in goals. The intermission was not kind to Montreal.
• MAX PACIORETTY from nowhere... we have a tied game!
• Price is so good you have to aim for the post and hope it gets in, this time for LA it went out after ringing the post though.
• Thats another bad call - Montreal to the penalty kill again... for about 10 seconds.
• Stupid call, stupid game and stupid score line...
• Contact was made way before the shot, so good not to challenge the goal.
• Compensation call...
• RA-DU-LOV!!!!! He turns Carter inside out and scores a beauty!
• This game is crap #NoDefence/

Third Period

• SHAW ties it up early in the third! This game will finish 8-8 right?
• A bit of a fight might be the most interesting thing that happened since the goal, and I don’t like fights.
• Lehkonen with a trademark move; close but no cigar.
• Galchenyuk to the dressing room... Collision with Kopitar, could be a knee injury.
• David Desharnais gets the promotion.
• A little bit of a flat period after the equalizer. /

Overtime

• Was that Weber playing extra goalie?
• Raduov with a mad shift!
• PowerKill™️ - after a Radulov effort.
• POST! It hit the post....!
• Radulov with another huge shift!/

Penalties

• Radulov with a master class penalty.
• Sudden Death Penalties...
• Byron vs Budaj - GOAL!/

Highlights

• Pacioretty opens the scoring early
• The captain nets his second
• Radulov stick-handles to the slot and scores
• And does something even more incredible in the shootout/

EOTP 3 Stars

Third star: Putting this here to hlp Mr. Neeson

Second star: I dont think anyone would argue against this at this point

First star: Indeed