I can feel it comming in the air tonight, oh Lord.

I been waiting for this momment for all my………..

Yes.

Those poor bloody Bruins…….

1. I have given up ***.
[becuase you love Ryder]

2. I have not shaved. (they always ask at work “Who’s the new guy”)
[because you shaved on the head, not on the face, like Habs players]

3. I have not showered. (they always ask at work “Who’s the new stinky guy”)
[because want to keep the winning scent]

Lets start by getting to round 2 ! that being said I have a good feeling for tonight , let’s hope it holds true.

Carey Price! What a save! That was magic…

Right on habs4life

#1 offense? #1 powerplay?

Where the hell is it? Is it possible that the Habs have become Vancouver? Is Price aware that they expect him to win games 1-0 or 2-1 from here on out?

Well, I never thought I’d say this, but a 2-goal deficit is way too much for this Montreal team to overcome. They just bought themselves a ticket back to Boston.

Quick, someone order some North American heart, determination and grit for this team. STAT!

Brutal. Embarrassing.

If habs lose this series, it will be a very very long summer!

What the hell was that 3rd period all about?

Well that I expected it but I think after the first period this yound team came out like they already had the game won. They quite skating and checking and a coupld of bad penalties and we are in trouble. Price mad one very rookie like mistake and the next thing we know the game is out of reach. Oh one other thing the most important game is the last one.

Well Carbo,its time to make some changes for Boston! Ryder ,Dandy and Smoke should sit with Stewart,Chipcura and D’agostini,Trotter inserted to put the legs back into this team.I’s time to sturr the pot!!!!

Trying to dig some positives out here, all I can say is that perhaps the game 3 wasn’t the kick in the *** that it should have been.

Hopefully this game will have been. We need to put this one behind us, and try to finish it off in Boston. I’m worried about the next game *but* I have to hope that this is the game that gets us playing again.

So, the Penguins will get Boston and the Rangers will get… just kidding.

Seriously though, I never thought I’d see the day when Price got rattled. I just did. And the worst part? He did it to himself when he turned the puck over to Boston to give them an easy lead. How will he respond to this… ?

Price’s rookie mistake aside, this team has not shown what it takes to be a champion. The lowly Bruins (and they are lowly - don’t BS yourself) just handed them their asses in their own building.

One thing is for sure…

If they put in the kind of effort that they did tonight in future games, then history will be made - they’ll lose this series. Since Montreal has never lost a series in which it lead 3-1, and Boston has never won a series in which it trailed 2-0, that would be historical.

I don’t like the makeup of this team. too many euros, too many Marian Hossa’s!
no hear or grit! I think this team is over confident, and unable to elevate their game to a playoff style. Koivu has to play in game 7. And mark my words: THERE WILL BE A GAME 7! remember 2004? Boston could do to us, what we did to them. Tonight I’m embarrassed to be a habs fan.

Give this team an Iginla, or a Phaneuf, or a Smythe, or a LeCavalier. Please. No? Then how about a Roberts, or a Malone, or a Laraque, or any other of a variety of Canadian or even North American ingredients REQUIRED to win in this league at this time of year.

habs are just a bunch of lazy euros! until we get north american players, forget it. And I can prove my point. In this series, which line has been the best? our 4th line! Smolinski-cdn, Begin-cdn, Kostopoulos-cdn. get it?

the truth is, Price lost us the game. way too cocky! maybe he’s just too young, to be playing in the playoffs. Since the 1st game, habs haven’t played well, and I can’t believe they won 3 games because they certainly don’t deserve to win this series!

Ok…I’ll admit I’m wrong (and maybe not that intelligent)…Habs in 6???

Going to 6 Games againts the potential Stanley Cup Champions??? Are you kidding me.

With a beer league, good for nothing, done nothing goalie named Thomas?

Phil Collins say it ain’t so:

“Well I remember, I remember dont worry
How could I ever forget, its the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you dont fool me
The hurt doesnt show; but the pain still grows
Its no stranger to you or me”

I’ll say it again (and so have most of you) without guts there ain’t no glory. Speed and Skill will always kill, but grit wins the Cup.

So, tell me Habs fans…can your team win the next round(s) versus the Rangers, Flyers and/or Pens???

Tony from NB

rhabs4real, Smolinski is from Toledo, Ohio. Just FYI.

But I agree with the basic point that you’re trying to make. European skill is great, just as long as it’s complementing a healthy dose of North American grit. If that skill is allowed to dominate the personality of a team, however, well, look no further than Ottawa’s previous records in the playoffs, before they added the ingredients to go to the Finals last year, when they were dominated by the bigger, stronger and more determined Ducks in the Finals anyway. Oh, and Anaheim’s roster last season? 18 Canadians on it.

You’re right, Senet 1. We should just sit back and enjoy this round of the playoffs, without looking ahead to the Habs’ imminent doom in the next round.

B’FAN AND jRES,DON’T YOU TWO goofy pussnutt Mother fu@kers have a *** dance to go too?Which one of you pretty boy’s is Cop and which macho macho man is the indian?lol…..Y.M.C.A.MOFO’S!!!!bEANTOWN CHOWDER WANNABE’S,LOL

B’sFAN:

Why do idiots like you always come out following a win by your mediocre team? If you can’t resist seeking out a blog site for the opposing team’s fans, then at least try adding something intelligent to the discussion. I mean, seriously. What’s that line from H2G2 again? “If human beings stop talking (or in this case, typing), their brains start working.” Yep, that’s the one.

Sadly, the world is full of people like yourself, which is why the human condition is such an unfortunate one. Are you near a tall building by chance?

Note to all Habs fans who have allowed me to express my “intelligent” opinion on this site over the last week:

“Jrs and BsFan”…are a couple of ignorant douche bags..who make the rest of us look like a-holes….YOU ARE EMBARRASING ME!

Price is an excellent goalie, who pretty much single handily won Games 2 & 4

Tony from North Boston

Tony:

I was a bit hard on you at the start. My apologies. My troll defenses are on auto this time of year. (Given a couple of new guests, I’m sure that you can imagine why.)

I appreciate your objectivity, so here’s some of mine: Montreal does not have what it takes to complete for the Cup this season. I apologize for slamming your team a bit, but I think that the Habs will beat them in the next two games to win this series. Even if it means Price bouncing back to steal another game. However, either Philly or Pittsburgh would destroy this Habs team if this is all that they have to bring to the table. As would New York.

Xtrahabsfan & Joseph…much appreciated.

I enjoy this site for “real” hockey opinion. Unlike the garbage on some of the “beantown” sites.

FYI: If your into football/baseball blogs, try “bleacherreport.com”, it’s an open source sports network, anybody can publish articles. Not enough hockey material…maybe you can get that moving?

Tony…out.

OK Les Boyz: Habz got caught up in the media hype - they thought they were great tonight for just showing up. Now they know better. Expect an awesome game Saturday night. Bring on Round 2. Rest easy, my friends, rest easy.

Price finally had a bad game. I think that Montreal has to start scoring goals big time. But Price will be amazing next game and it will all end on saturday.

Why do Habs Fans Have to Bash Price after one bad game? The Dominator for Detroit got pulled the last game. Brodeur is not playing well as he should. Come on **** happens to the best of Goalies.

One Bad game and many are calling for Halak. Not on this blog, but other blogs.

Price has carried this team since he was made the #1 Goalie. Now Fans are ready to throw him under the Bus.

Montreal dose not deserve a great Goalie.

Habs fans have class? Well, A lot do not.

Continuing my #60, if Carbo wanted to keep Saku and Francis as secret weapons for Game 7, he would be the candidate for most stupid coach 2007-2008.

Players have bad games, and Price is young. It doesn’t bother me at all from a worrying about winning perspective to see Price boot a game. What bothers me is the following:

Please rate the playoff performance of the following players since Game 1: Plekanec, S. Kostitsyn, A. Kostitsyn, Markov, Higgins, Ryder. [Now I consider Ryder to be lazy and useless, but he had a chance to redeem himself in the playoffs and he's been absolutely pathetic.]

And then rate the performance of the following players since Game 1:
Kostopolous, Dandenault, Brisebois, Begin, Smolinski, Hamrlik, Lapierre and Latendresse.

With the exception of Hamrlik, the bulk of the “talent” on this team is in the first group of players. So, our big-guns are not showing up for the playoffs. And this team has been carried since game 1 by third and fourth line players. That works against Boston because they are a low skill team with lots of heart, but it won’t work against any other team.

I’d say that Kovalev, Komisarek, Gorges, and a few others are playing at about their regular season intensity.

Kovalev is somewhat of an exception, skill-wise. But one has to wonder the kind of an effect it has on the team when the guy wearing the C doesn’t listen to the coach, takes very long shifts, and takes two retaliatory penalties in the series (he didn’t get caught last night).

Let’s hope they bounce back in Game 6.

groundworking:

“Now I consider Ryder to be lazy and useless, but he had a chance to redeem himself in the playoffs and he’s been absolutely pathetic”.

Your comment is just plain absurd. Do you even read you comments before you post them?

When Kovy went through his slump last year. Did he only get 6-8 mins. a game? No! He got he got his regular shifts and mins.

How in the hell do you expect a slumping player like Ryder to gain confidence by taking him off of the PP and giving him 6-8 mins a game. There are few players that are doing quat on the PP since the playoffs has started.

Carbo is an IDIOT plain a simple as that.

A nice way to treat a one of the top Goal Scorers for the past three to four years. It shows no class for Carbo. No class at all.

Excellent post Joseph. My thoughts in a nutshell.

Ryder has earned a ticket out of town!Put in that Stewart kid and watch **** unfold,the kid has gumsion and that is in short demand right now.

# 52 Tony from NB
Posted on April 17th, 2008 at 11:24 pm. About ‘Habs / Bruins: Game 5′.

Note to all Habs fans who have allowed me to express my “intelligent” opinion on this site over the last week:

“Jrs and BsFan”…are a couple of ignorant douche bags..who make the rest of us look like a-holes….YOU ARE EMBARRASING ME!

Price is an excellent goalie, who pretty much single handily won Games 2 & 4

Tony from North Boston

Tony from North of Boston, Wow, please do me a favor and pack your bags and head up 93 North, to 89 North until you hit the border! Stay in Canada. You are not a Bruins fan.

How do I look like an *******, when the Boston Bruins are basically willing their way through this series with a journeyman goaltender, and no scorers. Ok i will not say HEART and BALLS, because for this site it is too elementary.

This series should have been over in Game 3, although the Bruins have decided to make this into a series. The reason why, here is educated answer. They are working the corners, playing sound defense and they are playing unreal on the penalty killing. This series is dead even, although the Bruins are doing more with less and Julien is creating a forechecking and backchecking system that allows them to cut of half the ice and causes the Canadiens to dump in when they would rather carry the puck in. The Bruins and Julien play this system is because other than the Begin and Kostopolous line, the HABS do not like to dig for pucks and do the dirty work in the corners to get them to the place they need to be.

Carey Price, be careful HABS fans not to put to much pressure on this kid, Tony from NB, how can you saw a 20 year old is excellent, because of half a season and 4 games in a playoff series? He has the skills to be a great one, and I would LOVE TO HAVE HIM on the BRUINS! Although he is not proven at this level, has he played great yes. Although here is his weaknesses: MY EDUCATED ANALYSIS, he is a traditional butterfly goalie, he is extremely vulnerable on the blocker side upstairs as well as giving up huge rebounds of the pads. He plays with calm and poise, although his side to side movements from post to post is not that great! Now is Thomas better? HECK NO! he is crazy and gives me a heart attack! They are both playing well, yes, but please don’t tell me that this 20 year old kid is the next ROY or DRYDEN! They are hall of famer’s and you are really putting pressure on this kid. I remember you had another great goalie in the system JOSE THEODORE, he basically robbed us of the playoffs in 04, what happened then?

Tony from NB are you a Bruins fan or a bandwagon fan! You probably became a Giants fan when the Pats lost in the Superbowl. Which the Giants deserved to WIN! We digress!

HABS and BRUINS Saturday night…SERIES 3-2…Can you ask for anything more. I want to see a hungry HABS team and a hungry Bruins team! No more blowouts!

GO BRUINS!

To compare Ryder with Kovalev is absolutely beyond absurd. Kovalev’s worst year was 47 pts, -19, Ryder’s great year last year is 58 pts, -25. Their skill levels are nowhere near comparable. In other words, Kovalev in a huge slump and in a crappy year contributed almost as much in the pts column as Ryder in another “great year” (and I agree, he was good before this year). So Ryder is no Kovalev.

The problem with Ryder is that he quit. Not carbo. Ryder had plenty of chances to work his way back into the lineup. At the start of the year, he was slumping and working hard. Then he quit. He doesn’t backcheck, forecheck, hit, dig, set-up plays or score goals. So he’s probably the worst defensive liability on the team, the weakest back-checker, and he doesn’t score. That’s my definition (and Carbo’s definition, presumably) of a brutal season.

So yeah, Ryder sucks. And Kovalev at his worst is better than 70% of the players in the NHL.

groundworking:

“Now I consider Ryder to be lazy and useless, but he had a chance to redeem himself in the playoffs and he’s been absolutely pathetic”.

Your comment is just plain absurd. Do you even read you comments before you post them?

When Kovy went through his slump last year. Did he only get 6-8 mins. a game? No! He got he got his regular shifts and mins.

Don’t get me wrong, Ryder CAN comeback with another team next year and regain his form. I hope he does. I should say he was brutal this year. He lost confidence and quit. Not Carbo’s fault. I mean, having watched an entire season, Ryder was the first this year to quit on the puck (give up on the back-check, change after 30 seconds on an odd-man rush, etc. etc.) Ryder is not a whipping boy, like Kovalev, because he isn’t, and never was, as central to the team. But the only injustice the Habs did to Ryder this year was not trading him.

we are doomed i say

If Habs lost Game 6, I would raise the topic of replacing Guy Carboneau by Kirk Muller in the Habsnation world.

(Sorry, I am still trying to recover from last night’s)