Archive for October, 2009

2009/2010 season 13th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs Chicago Blackhawks

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs Chicago Blackhawks, played on October 30th 2009.

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Prospect watch : Tom Pyatt

Back in the early months of the summer and just prior to the draft we all heard of that big trade that brought Scott Gomez over from the New York Rangers. In that deal we saw Chris Higgins go the other way…. a player that I enjoyed and had high hopes for.

Along with Gomez came his hefty contract which, I will admit, made it hard for me to swallow that deal. After “UFA season” opened and we signed Cammalleri and Gionta, who both mentioned the Gomez deal as a factor in their decision, I thought it might be shaping up. At least it didn’t look too bad…. we had some newly acquired offensive punch to replace that which had gone out with the players who were not being offered contracts to return.

In that trade came a player that at first I took no notice of. His name is Tom Pyatt.

So who is Tom Pyatt??
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2009/2010 season 12th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs Pittsburg Penguins, played on October 28th 2009.

This was Montreal’s 12th game of the season and certainly wasn’t there strongest outing. I’m a little concerned that the flu might go through the team as Metropolit was still feeling some effects and Scott Gomez had been questionable going into the game but did play.
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Halak getting respect

We’re about 30 minutes away from game time. Montreal faces the Pittsburgh Penguins this evening and once again Yaroslav Halak will be in net.

It’s been a long winding road for Halak as the last couple of years it seemed like no matter what he would do, steal games, stop 50 shots…. he would soon sit. He didn’t see too many games in a row as most times the reigns were always given to Price.

This season, it seems as though Martin might be playing whoever is sharp.

I’m hoping that this is a real opportunity for both young goalies… they’ll both get the games, and they gotta perform.

Is this creating a real competition? Will this essentially push both?

Only time will tell.

Enjoy the game!

2009/2010 season 11th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs New York Islanders

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs New York Islanders played on October 26th 2009.

This was Montreal’s 11th game of the season.
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We’ve got a couple of Giants

Watching the Canadiens vs the Rangers last night was a treat. It went through all the emotions…. from elation and excitement to uncertainty and slight fear (well ok… maybe no fear… right?). But when the chips were down the Habs managed to come back from 2 goals down (twice they were down by 2 goals) and eventually win the game.

I saw what I began to see ever since these hit the ice in training camp. A play hard attitude, never back down, desire to win…..

But from what I’ve heard from some tv analysts and some writers, you’d swear that this “experiment” of Bob Gainey’s would surely flop. The theme of of some game highlights and video replays have referred to some of them as “the smurf line”…. their physical stature is often referred to…. Even before CBC broke to commercial just before the game was about to start there was a mention of how many inches the Gomez-Cammalleri-Gionta line gave up to their opponents.
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2009/2010 season 10th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs New York Rangers

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs New York Rangers played on October 24th 2009.

This was Montreal’s 10th game of the season. Montreal won this game 5-4 in overtime with Mike Cammalleri playing a monster game scoring 3 goals (including the winner) and 1 assist for 4 pts.
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2009/2010 season 9th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs New York Islanders

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs New York Islanders played on October 22nd 2009.

This was Montreal’s 9th game of the year. They won by a score of 5 – 1.
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Sergei Kostitsyn – Will he stay or will he go?

I remember when we first saw Sergei in Montreal during the first batch of pre-season games 3 years ago. In that pre-season stint, I was impressed and I remember Carbo saying how it was hard to send him to Hamilton.

We didn’t have to wait long and Sergei was called up to play in Montreal.

Fast forward a few years and here we are.

Sergei Kostitsyn had a place on this roster. There is no doubt. But there’s been this kind of cloud hovering above him since last season.

Last year all the media (well not ALL the media, but some media certainly) were finding new issues every couple of weeks…. Kostitsyn’s name was mentioned along with the word “party”…. and then later on he and brother Andrei were thought to be involved with some shady figures in Montreal (along with Hamrlik).

Sergei had been demoted after all that stuff came about… but even before that the Habs team were sinking fast. I’m not sure if half the team just stopped playing for Carbo or what…. but there had been whispers of attitude problems.
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2009/2010 season 8th game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs Atlanta Thrashers

Here are the video highlights from last night’s game between the Montreal Canadiens and Atlanta Thrashers.