Canadiens vs Flyers Top Six Minutes: A hard working win

Obvious thought: I am very much wary of Voracek and Giroux.
Optimistic Prediction: Brendan Gallagher finally breaks his 6-game goal drought.
Pessimistic Prediction: Lecavalier will be Lecavalier, so he’ll find some way to score against the Habs.
Pugilistic prediction: Ryan White vs Brandon Prust
It’s the team’s 3rd game in 4 days so your post-game narratives have been preprogrammed to “great victory for a tired team” and “it was their 3rd game in 4 nights, they just didn’t have enough.

Therrien’s suit game is not strong tonight.
There are way too many guys in Philadelphia who have a tendency to score on MTL, Matt Read strikes. Ugh, 1-0 Flyers.
Blowing a loose puck dead, NHL officiating at it’s finest.
Carey Price, there are no words in English to describe the man.
I am honestly surprised Pacioretty and Plekanec don’t lead the league in shorthanded goals with what they do on that unit.
I can’t be the only person who thought Carlo Colaiacovo had retired due to injuries.
How much time does this team waste with dump-ins that have no chance of getting a retrieval? Might as well classify them as giveaways.
Subban end-to-end rushes are fun, but you all knew that already.
The Habs are having way too hard of a time pushing through a defensive group which was partly bought from Giant Tiger.
Wow, that period just made me hate dump-and-chase hockey all over again. So many wasted shifts for Montreal with that, plus the horrible stretch passes that don’t generate anything.
Damien Cox and John Shannon are the intermission panel, so I’ll be starting at the ceiling for 18 minutes.

Carey Price saves the day to open the period. You love watching it but get tired of seeing it at the same time.
The defensive structure of the Habs is modeled on the Tower of Pisa.
Just saw JJ Daigneault’s suit. How do these guys spend so much time with Bergevin and wear such lousy suits?
Alexei Emelin shot attempts don’t show up in Fenwick as they’re always blocked.
If you told an uninformed observer in the pregame that the Flyers were the team with terrible defence, they wouldn’t believe you.
Sportsnet again banging the “Weise belongs on the 1st line” drum, who’s paying them to do this?
Sekac remains a lot of fun to watch in the offensive zone.
It would be nice if Ray Emery had to try to make a save.
This game is one of those “wait for PK Subban to do something awesome and hope the Habs capitalize on it” affairs.
Sekac draws a penalty because he’s awesome.
Imagine the Habs power play if they tried setting up shooters in the circles.
And now Therrien trolls the entire Bell Centre by giving Weise the final PP shift.
I give the Habs the Rene Bourque award for this period, as they almost created some scoring chances.

The 4th line has been the team’s best line tonight, which is nice but also really upsetting at the same time.
Desharnais is the person ahead of you who takes 15 seconds to start moving when the light turns green.
Galchenyuk is so close to scoring a lot more, we say this a lot but he’s having a really good run in the offensive zone tonight.
PK Subban is going to kill a Flyer tonight with his slapper.
Weise on the PP, go have carnal relation with a cactus Therrien.
Wow it’s hard to think about stuff to say regarding this game that isn’t redundant about them not creating a decent scoring chance.
And just I as I type that… PLEKY SAVES THE DAY!!! Tie Game! Also, that was an uber-sexy dangle on the blue line by Galchenyuk to create the zone entry.
Beaulieu scoring the game-winner as his 1st career goal would be cool, I’m testing out my apparent game-influencing powers.
It’s crazy how the Habs suddenly shift when they think they can score goals. Pure offensive domination leads to their 3rd power play of the game.
And we have the power play dump-in, my least favourite thing ever.
Dale Weise on the power play again, which would be fine if this was a 6-1 game for Montreal and they were just running out the clock, but they actually have to win this game.

1. We were all thinking this weren’t we?

2. I think they’re onto something with this one.

3. This doesn’t get old, EVER.

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