Habs / Flyers: Game 4
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The Canadiens trail a playoff series for the first time this year. Down 2-1 for game 4 tonight in Philly.
Despite out shooting the Flyers by 20 shots the Canadiens dropped game 3. The powerplay clicked in the end, but was horrendous in the beginning when it was needed. Combined with some bad bounces, unlucky posts and bad goaltending, the Canadiens played catch up down 2-0 for the third straight game.
Guy Carbonneau is playing a few headgames by keeping his starting goalie a ’secret’ until game time.
Expect Carey Price to return to the lineup and redeem his poor effort on Monday night.
Other than Martin Biron and their penalty killing unit, the Flyers have not overly impressed in any way. The Canadiens have defeated themselves.
Should the Habs start executing - manage to score first, have decent goaltending and have an average or better powerplay - they should not have any problem getting back into the series.
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April 30, 2008 pm30 4:39 pm
I haven’t noticed Don Cherry for a certain time on CBC Hockey Night Canada. Has he left only for the playoff or for good?
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:04 pm
I will bet on Ryder, Plekanec and Brisebois tonight.
GO HABS GO !!!!!!!!!!!——!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:06 pm
The citizens of the city of Montreal should thank the Flyers after this series for saving their city from another riot.
P.S. refer to Blog 215 (Habs/Flyers: Game 3)
GO FLYERS GO!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:12 pm
HALAK IS IN ! official.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:24 pm
The citizens of the city of Montreal will thank the Flyers for taking their fans golfing with them.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:32 pm
Incidentally, do the Flyers intend to help out with crowd control at hip-hop concerts in Montreal? Because that was, in fact, the source of the riots. Do your homework.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:34 pm
dammit we need carey in nets……
he is our number 1 and easily will bounce back…. games 5 and 6 of last series
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:00 pm
So has Montreal Canadiens figured out what they are doing for a net minder?…how about a brick wall?…because thats about all thats going to stop us…Philly, on the other hand, have Biron, which solves our net minder problem unless Montreal gets 60 minutes of power plays this game vs. 20 minutes last game. How do the matadors say it?…OLE OLE OLE…what a *** saying…must be a Canadien thing.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:03 pm
All your Biron was all his carrer was a Backup. He will be again soon!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
To 6
Joseph,
I don’t give a rat’s *** what happens in Montreal…been there once, bad choice of places to visit on my part, and never again… so why would I care to do any type of homework on Montreal? So I really don’t care how or why or who about these riots…they just happened following the Habs 7th game win over an unskilled team like Boston and now the low class Hab fans have blood on their hands.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
Actually, Philly Pucks, “OLE OLE OLE” is a chant that is heard at bullfights.
Just like the matador drives the sword into the bull so are Les Canadiens going to skewer the Broad Street Thugs.
The Special tonight will be FLYERS SHISHKABOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a thought……..how about playing the Russian National Anthem to get our Ruski Habs going? Please, no Communist jokes!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
Biron was saved my his posts all this series, I have never seen so many posts … in 3 games
Where is the link saying its official for Halak?
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:20 pm
Jack:
You’re immature and ignorant. Only a loser wouldn’t enjoy being in Montreal. Is that what you’re telling me… that you’re a loser?
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:21 pm
It’s also a soccer song.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:23 pm
If the Habs decide to finish their many chances against this weak Flyer defense, they’ll blow them out of their own arena. If not, then they don’t deserve to win anyway.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:24 pm
Here is the link looks official to me.
Right or wrong Carbo’s got balls.
http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080430.wspthabs_update30/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/home
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:27 pm
Do they have excuse books at the book stores up there in Montreal? You Hab fans have an excuse for every loss…”goal posts, rough playing(too many Russians on your team), Biron was lucky, Price had a bad game”…etc. Why can’t you loose with class and just accept the fact your team does not have what it takes to win playoff style hockey against the Flyers, maybe next year or the next but not this year…PERIOD! Either you go easy or hard…we’ll take you out…even with the officials on your side!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:31 pm
I can’t believe that benching one young goaltender with some playoff experience in favor of another young goaltender with 20 minutes of playoff experience will be what the Habs need.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:32 pm
Carbo better wear his “Very ***” Tie ……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:33 pm
Hey Jacko,
Why can’t you go to your own team’s fan site and annoy your own fans with your ignorant nonsense? Let me guess, they rejected you.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:34 pm
JACKASS, what will be your excuse tonight when your Fylers lose.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:35 pm
If his Flyers lose, I can guarantee you that he won’t be anywhere near here… because he’s that type of ‘fan’.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:38 pm
Let’s go, Habs! Wake up! You’re a better team than you’ve shown in this series.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:44 pm
Jack’s an A..hole
Jack’s a *****
Jack can’t even hold a Hockey stick
WHAT A JACK OFF
OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:47 pm
Did I see ref on our side looser????? Look who is complaining and trying to find excuses for the unsportmanship of his poor team…..Hey Jackass, you better tell Biron to hide himself from the puck tonight, cause our shots are all going in bast….!
See ya after game, after our 2nd victory!
Go habs Go!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:50 pm
Jack’s just frustrated with all the losing. The Flyers, the Phillies, the Eagles… all mediocre franchises. The last Philadelphia team to win anything was the 76ers, and that was 26 years ago.
Sucks to be Jack.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:53 pm
Score Habs Score!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:03 pm
Sorry guys for deserting you the last couple of games I had to go away an no internet.
Anyway here is how I see the last two games, considering we outplayed the flyers both games and came out losing in both cases concerns me but being a die hard habs fan I still have faith in my team.
This is what we have to do, we have to start to screen Biron, he is not that good of a goaltender but we have made him look good. Most goalies can make 99% of the saves if they can see the puck. We have not screened Biron at all so we have to start putting players in from of the net and get some screen shots. Now there is no point in putting men in front of the net if the defense is not going to shoot the puck so that is another priority. Once we start to do that then it will force Philly to come out to the point which will give our forwards more room to work down low. That should improve our power play as well as our five on five. Now our defence have to give our goaltender a chance to see the puck. Two of the three goals Philly got last game were screen shots that Price did not see to the last second. He got his glove on both of them but not enough to stop the puck. To me the media has been far to hard on him. Also you have to realize that he only had 17 shots on goal and at the time of the two goals he only had 6 shots, so he was hard for him to physically be in the game with so little activity.
I have not lost faith, but we do have to win tonight otherwise it will be difficult to win three in a row.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:19 pm
Hi, Senet 1.
My goodness, the Flyers’ defense is terrible.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:20 pm
Big save by Halak.
Lets bury those flyers!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:24 pm
I agree, but the one thing they are doing is keeping the shooting lanes open so their goalie can see the puck and they have been able to clog up the passing lanes down low. Our forwards are looking for the perfect pass, good things happen when you shoot the puck at the net, just look at the goals that philly are scoring.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:25 pm
Post#25,you are turning into one heck of a Habs fan …..go habs go….
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:26 pm
We need to get some garbage goals and that will open up the game for us.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:28 pm
See the shot that Striet just made from the pass from Lappiere. It was a useless shot, the only way a goalie is not going to stop that shot is to have a heart attack. It would have been much better had he held onto the puck and waited for the rest of the team to clog the front of the net.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:47 pm
I wouldn’t let Streit play. he is horrible.huring the team and responsible for the flyer breakaway. Next game he should be scratched.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:50 pm
Great points, Senet 1… good insight.
Another period where the Habs dominated the Flyers and came up short. And as you stated, the Habs are making Biron look good in this series. They need to get bodies to the net and screen him, agreed.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:52 pm
And again, when the Habs get the puck in the slot, they have to just shoot it. It’s frustrating watching them always thinking ahead to the next move, or the next pass. Shoot it!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:54 pm
SHOOT if you’re open, damn it.
QUIT OVERPASSING!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:57 pm
37 duckdoc: EXACTLY MY POINT, THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE PERFECT PLAY, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU PUT THE PUCK ON THE NET, HOWEVER, YOU HAVE TO GET A GARBAGE GOAL TO UNNERVE BIRON.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:59 pm
Montreal could not score in a ***** House…………
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:02 pm
In the Boston series I said that the habs character had to come out in game seven, there was no urgency in games 5 or 6 but there was in game 7.
Well there is urgency in game 4 in this series because we cannot go down 3-1. Hopefully, they will respond. Here is what I would do, I would break up our checking line and put one player on each of the first and second lines. We need to get some phycial play on those lines and getting someone in front of the net.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:02 pm
well,if anything from the first it shut up the trolls as thier phillypilons were out played once again.And how about that Halak kid ,way to go!!!ole ole ole………………………………..
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:04 pm
Senet1: exactly what I was saying after the last game - we need to crash the net, get in the lanes and screen Biron. You can’t stop what you can’t see, and at the moment Biron is seeing everything.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:04 pm
Halak is a very good young goalie and will be a #1 anywhere is this league
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:06 pm
The ref was looking for an excuse there… let’s kill this one off and then get a goal or three…
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:14 pm
Takes grit and irrational dedication to get the front of the net. I’d put Begin with Kovalev and Koivu, and Kostopolous with Kastitsyn and Higgins.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:16 pm
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In court the other day there was a case regarding the custody of a small child.
The judge asked the boy, “do you want to live with your mother?”
He replied, “No I don’t want to live with her because she beats me!”.
The judge then asked, “Do you want to live with your father?”
The boy stated, “No he beats me too.”
Finally the judge asked, “where do you want to live?”
The child responded, “I want to live with the Montreal Canadiens!”.
The judge asked, “Why do you want to live with the Montreal Canadiens?”
The boy exclaimed, “Because the Montreal Canadiens don’t beat anybody!”
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:17 pm
It’s all over folks!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:19 pm
I like you Begin move but I would put Smolinski with because he is a centre with Higgins and Andrea. and Kostopolous with Plex and Sergie.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:24 pm
48 future habs fan: Are you really a habs fan??????????? Our team is playing well but he have to find a way to score goals. Have some faith in your team>
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:24 pm
This is frustrating to watch, i cant imagine what it’s like to play. Montreal is playing against the worst team in the playoffs, dominating like never before, and they can’t get a save from their goaltenders. Biron is playing very well, true, but how many games can you win when your goalies literally never bail the team out. Pathetic.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:32 pm
I agree it is frustrating, it would be one thing if we were playing badly but we are not Philly seems to be getting the breaks and taking advantage of them. We need out leaders to step up and show some leadership.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:34 pm
Halak has played very well, The guys just cant bury their chances, this is weird, not sure what else they can do, they need to keep working and just hope to get a few bounces
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:35 pm
Come on guys… don’t get frustrated. After all you are playing against “the worst team in the playoffs” and you are on the PP 1/3 of the game and you’re only going to be down 3 games to 1.
Come on it’s 8:30… there has to be something on Candian TV to watch that your team will win… Curling maybe?
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:39 pm
Well. Carbo’s experiment is not working out to well so far is it?
That was a weak one on Halak. Talk about Price……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:40 pm
Well nobody wants to crash the net, and cause some trouble for Biron. The longer we go without a goal the harder is it going to get, they are already starting to squease their sticks too hard.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
I mean why are we so inept at scoring? This is a shadow of the team we saw during the regular season. It’s not the same team. Normally we would bury all these chances. Also our shots aren’t on net, and the fewthat are, are without power.
FOR THE FLYER FANS NOT HERE BECAUSE THEIR BLOG IS CRAPPY: no team is getting by Pittsburgh. so you’re not winning anything! Pitt will win the stanley cup!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
Well Don, Price played well in the playoff too, only to have his D-Men hang him out to dry many night.
I’m glad this is blowing up in Carbo’s face.
Price in game 5 & 6 last series not the best. Next game a shut out.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
54 Flyers~cup2008: Well I would not expect an unbias statement from a Flyer’s fan but the last time I looked both teams have been penalized exactly the same amount
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
Flyers fans are classless turds.
That being said, the Flyers are a weak team, and the Habs are playing like they’re a weak team. The difference, again, is goaltending. Soft goals by Montreal’s goaltenders and the inability to score on Brion - a highly overrated goaltender.
Oh, well. They’ve only themselves to blame.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:43 pm
Its not over yet, and I think Halak was the right choice, of course your going to **** on him you would **** on your own mother if you had a chance..
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:45 pm
Don has a love affair withy Halak I see.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:47 pm
Halak is playing well. It’s not his fault if his team can’t score. Carbo did make the right choice, and he should have changed goalies in game 3. If the habs could learn how to get a puck on net thru to the goalie, and screen him, then they’ll score. that’s the only way!
Nobody dump on Halak. He’s playing so much better than Price!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:47 pm
I’ve no problem with Halak. He’s young and he allowed a soft goal when he was deep in the net. Rookie mistake. But this continues to be the difference in this series - good goaltending vesus bad goaltending.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:50 pm
Halak is playing well, but the goal was the result of a rookie mistake (a.k.a. bad goaltending) - being deep in the net.
Anyway, as I stated in the previous thread, if the Habs would convert half their chances, it wouldn’t matter who was in goal.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:54 pm
Anyway, no surprises. Carbonneau and the Habs have a lot to learn with regard to success in the playoffs. This can be considered a stepping stone.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:54 pm
I’m with you guys. Enough of the passing. Get in front of the net and shoot the damn puck! God, I could stop the shots Biron’s facing too. GET IN BIRON’S KITCHEN!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:55 pm
58 DieHard Habs Fan: As I see it,Carbo would have been criticized by you whether he made this move or not, if he left Price in the net and he had another game like the last one, (not that I am blaming him for those goals or the loss) then everyone would have blamed Carbo for not making the move. Halak has played very well and if you listen to the experts, the goal was not entirely his fault either. You cannot let philly have those kind of shots because they are in a good position and a hard shot for the goalie to cover the entire net.
Anyway I see this move as a good move for two reasons, one to shake up our team and the defense and secondly simply to see if he could get some spark into the team. One thing our defense has played better tonight. Our team as a whole have played very well too. If we loose we do have one thing going for us even though we are down 3-1 we are playing well. So if we loose we come back with Price next game, if we win we stay with Halak until we loose. Halak if you remember played a number of games last year at the end of the season when Huet was hurt and had he played the last game against the leafs we probably would have made the playoffs.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:04 pm
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:04 pm
yea BABY………..YEA!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:06 pm
oops. sorry. thought i was at the Flyers FanZone. Back to my LaBatt Blue.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:07 pm
My oh my!
Two soft goals on Halak.
What a time to experiment???
IN YOUR FACE CARBO! IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:08 pm
flyers are the luckiest team. won by luck only, because they’re crappy! With any luck we’d be leading the series 3-0.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:10 pm
#74-
But your not….your down 2-1 and probably (though there is still time left) going to be down 3-1…..in a one game playoff….ok a team can get lucky and the New York Giants can beat the New England Patriots…..but over a 7 game series…. 9 times out of 10 the team that plays the best wins….it really is ok you guys can admit it.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:12 pm
Yeah, Halak is da man. He will get the #1 job next year……
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:13 pm
LUCK?????? Have you been watching Biron?
Put you glasses on Pappy and why are you a “future” Habs fan. Too much commitment? After the Habs lose are you a Future Pens Fan?
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:13 pm
If it wasn’t for luck in Game 1, the Flyers would be wrapping this thing up tonight, you convoluted rose glassed a-hole…
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:14 pm
So can we all agree now that our position has very little to do with our goaltending but has everything to do with the fact we can’t score? We’ve missed at least three open nets tonight, and we’ve not given Biron any grief at all. That’s why we’re losing this game, and the series - it has nothing to do with anything else…
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:16 pm
portly,lol
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:20 pm
Yes!! Traffic in front of the net at last!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:20 pm
that’s one
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
Again!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
take that flyers fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
that’s two whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:22 pm
now at least have the guts to say that second goal was lucky….if you are going to say they flyers have gotten all the bounces you need to admit that its not going to be any better than that
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:23 pm
LOL
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:26 pm
yer right ,the flyers 2nd goal was lucky!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:26 pm
Sacre Bleu!!!
waiddaminute! This isn’t LaBatt!! It’s BEAVER PISS!! BARMAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:27 pm
Oh Know…………. Did they just……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:28 pm
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see the Pens in your future, “future habs fan”
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:28 pm
no…they created a chance for themselves just like you did there….luck happens in cards not in a real sport….teams create what happens during a game…you can create a bad situation and give up a “fluke” goal or you can just stand your man up at the blue line and have it called great defense
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:32 pm
All the Flyers goals are lucky beacuse the Flyers are Crappy… Oh wait
If Flyers=crappy and they are winning 3 games to 1 then what does that make the Habs?
Sing it Fat Lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:33 pm
please shut up until the game is over….we dont need anything going wrong here
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:33 pm
There’s no luck in this game guys. The Flyers are winning because they have a better goaltender. That is it. It’s the only reason this series is 3-1. Playoff games are always low scoring.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:34 pm
Murray Wilson, you are a homer!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:35 pm
Defibrilator…..STAT
……forget this beer - i need a shot!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:36 pm
Refs are so f**ken biased! that wasn’t a penalty! Flyers are the luckiest team and the the crappiest! They’re going nowhere!nowhere!nowhere!
They’re never getting ny Pittsburgh!
Habs are totally unlucky!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:36 pm
Thank you Begin for handing the series to them… great move.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:37 pm
yes….running at a guy while the puck is on the other side of the ice isnt a penalty….you are right…..and the door was open….talk about a lack of respect for the opponents
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:40 pm