Live Blog, which you get to read after the game is over! Isn’t this fun?
- If Montreal hasn’t had a police escort on Mike Babcock this entire day they aren’t doing their job. He’s going to try and steal Carey form himself after the Olympics.
- Alright! Finally no more complaining about how the coach divvies up the ice time like we did all Olympics! Oh, wait…
- THE STRETCH DRIVE BEGINS. It’s important to stretch before a six week long drive, folks.
- Marie-Philip Poulin. That ovation shouldn’t ever end. Ever.
- Poulin should never have to buy anything in her life from now on. A drink at a bar, Canadiens season tickets, a phone bill, my love, nothing.
- These uniforms don’t need gold medals around them to look good.
- Pacioretty is rusty. He cycled the puck behind the goal line in his own zone… with Douglas Murray backing him up. That is the lowest percentage play possible.
- Johan Franzen looked like he was going to keel over after a 15 second shift.
- First power play gets rewarded on Montreal’s first real extended offensive zone pressure. It was created by Gallagher and Pacioretty. Of Course.
- Marie-Phillip Poulin is sitting behind Therrien. Images of pure joy meet images of pure rage. The cycle of life.
- “That is why Subban didn’t play”, Babcock, probably, after Subban’s penalty.
- Bertuzzi not being at the Olympics makes me wish the Olympics didn’t end.
- Way to battle hard for position on that, Emelin.
- Like I’ve always said, you see Douglas Murray open, you gotta give him the puck. What a dangle!
- Dangle is a funny word.
- Feels like Emelin is leading the team in icetime. He isn’t, but you’d think so judging by his speed to loose pucks.
- Mike Johnson: “This game hasn’t had a lot of flow.” Yeah, I miss Ryan White’s hair, too.
- Montreal hi-lite reel!: Still waiting on first Controlled Zone Entry of the second period at first commercial break
- Detroit’s D has Kronwall, DeKeyser, Quincey, Smith, and Lashoff. That’s obviously way too many puckmovers. When will they learn!?!
- I thought Detroit had the silver medallists and the Habs had the gold medallists. Doesn’t look like it, does it?
- Second commercial break Montreal hi-lite reel: Alex Galcheynuk controlled zone entry, lost puck on boards
- THREE CONTROLLED ZONE ENTRIES IN A ROW. Puck flutters to Howard for first shot of the period!
- BORK RUSHING TO THE RESCUE DRAWING PENALTIES. LOUD NOISES
- Habs PP! *crickets*
- In the intermission, Olivier Bouchard points out on Twitter that I might have been hallucinating the first Galchenyuk controlled zone entry. We could count out them pretty easily: 4 by his count, 5 by mine. I referenced all of them above. I wasn’t joking about the Habs hi-lite reel. This is no longer a bullet point. I’m sorry. How’s the family?
- Alex Galchenyuk tries a nice move on a rush with speed. He’s like Lisa Simpson playing in the school band concert, busting out the big sax solo.
- Alexei Emelin is playing the flute up his nose.
- This ‘stretch drive’ is already reaching the point where I’m asking ‘Are we there yet?’
- Goal judge flips the light on out of a rare moment of excitement around Howard in a crease scrum. I don’t have to tell you who created the crease crashing scoring chance.
- Where does the goal judge sit now anyways?
- Nothing
- EMPTY NET OPPORTUNITY
- GIO BACKHAND SHELF!
- Bad news: Now we have to watch more Therrien Hockey.
- 3 on 3 OT due to questionable calls! This is weirdly like the Canada-USA Gold Medal Game.
- 2 forwards and 1 D is the only way to play in this situation. Only way to make this fun.
- That’s not the result we deserved. We deserved the regulation loss.
- We aren’t going to Disneyland, are we?
First Star: Masmullin snuck this in the first period…
Second Star: RudeFrenchCanadian summed up the action as well as Marc’s decision to shift the conversation to duck gifs with this one of a duck hitting the books.
Third Star: TrevaDaddy, in response to Teenage Almond saying ‘This is a boring game.’: ‘Jimmy Howard, is that you?’
