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Montreal Canadiens vs Philadelphia Flyers – 2009/2010 season 78th game highlights

Yves — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:10:50 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Philadelphia Flyers played on April 2nd 2010. The Canadiens barely escaped with a 1-0 win as Jaroslav Halak pretty much did everything in the 3rd period.

Someone mentioned on Twitter the Jaro should have had all 3 stars. I tend to agree after watching this game.

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Montreal Canadiens vs New Jersey Devils – 2009/2010 season 76th game highlights

Yves — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:43:23 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the New Jersey Devils played on March 27th 2010.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Florida Panthers – 2009/2010 season 75th game highlights

Yves — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:52:54 +0000

How strange…. before taking such a long break from blogging due to extreme busy-ness…. the last highlights I posted were a previous Montreal vs Florida game.

Anyway.. Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Florida Panthers played on March 26th 2010.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Florida Panthers – 2009/2010 season 46th game highlights

Yves — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:36:36 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Florida Panthers played on January 7th 2010.

(Courtesy of Sportsnet)

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Montreal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals – 2009/2010 season 45th game highlights

Yves — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:32:17 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Washington Capitals played on January 5th 2010.

Washington won this game 4-2. The Canadiens managed to make it close towards the end by making it 3-2… but in all honesty the only thing that kept them in the game was their goaltender. On this night it was Carey Price.

An all to common theme. Outshot 43-26 by Washington it looked as though the Canadiens were just out-worked all night long. In many of the games battles for the puck the Capitals would just come out on top.

Frustrating to see this scenario play out again and again. We have the luxury of having 2 great young goaltenders at the moment. Both Price and Halak have played great, but you can’t expect the Habs to win too many if they continue to be so badly outshot. Team defense is a biggie.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres – 2009/2010 season 44st game highlights

Yves — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:10:38 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Buffalo Sabres played on January 3rd 2010.

Ryan Miller started the year at the expense of the Canadiens by shutting them out. Buffalo won the game 1-0.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Ottawa Senators – 2009/2010 season 41st game highlights

Yves — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:16:38 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Ottawa Senators played on December 28th 2009.

The Senators won this game by a score of 4 – 2.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Toronto Maple Leafs – 2009/2010 season 40th game highlights

Yves — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:17:17 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Toronto Maple Leafs played on December 26th 2009.

The Canadiens won the game by a score of 3-2.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Carolina Hurricanes – 2009/2010 season 39th game highlights

Yves — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:34:17 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Carolina Hurricanes played on December 23rd 2009.

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Montreal Canadiens vs Atlanta Thrashers – 2009/2010 season 38th game highlights and comments

Yves — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:35:04 +0000

Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Atlanta Thrashers played on December 21th 2009…. but first some comments.

The Canadiens won the game 4-3 in Overtime (which was predicted with little time to play in the 3rd on Twitter by Arpon Basu). It wasn’t the prettiest of games. Montreal were again outshot by a very large margin. Overall team defensive play has to be improved to cut down on the shots that make it to either Jaroslav Halak or Carey Price.

You can’t expect to win very many games in the NHL if your opponent is in your zone firing rubber at your goaltender most of the evening. Although I will say that in the case of the Montreal Canadiens at least Jacques Martin has 2 very capable young goalies to rely upon. But they won’t steal every game.

Jaroslav Halak was, in the end, left to face 53 shots (that made it through to him) stopping 50 of them. Is that not scary? If I was coaching this team that would be one of the most frightening numbers that I would have to face…. never mind they somehow won the game. The last several years the Montreal Canadiens were outshot alot and though this year it seemed that it was getting a bit better early on it’s pretty much back to where it was in terms of these shot totals.

Nik Antropov was around Halak’s net last night and was effective for the Thrashers. He had 2 goals. It’s something the Thrashers did in an earlier game too…. if you can put big bodies in front of the net and throw the puck out there… good things happen.

Hope the Habs adopt that style a bit more at some point…..

One of the bright spots this year has been Tomas Plekanec. Last night he fired a terrific shot to score Montreal’s first goal and then he assisted on the next 3 Habs goals to finish the game with 4 points! Plekanec now has 40 points on the year in 38 games played. That ties Tomas with Zach Parise, Nicklas Backstrom, Brad Richards and Martin St Louis…. tied for 6th in the league in points.

VERY good Tomas!

Marc-André Bergeron scored 2 goals last night. At times Bergeron is a defensive liability. He gets pushed off the puck when he’s on defense and sometimes looks like he struggles to move the puck up to his forwards out of Montreal’s defensive zone.

But put Bergeron on the point on the PowerPlay… or have him join the rush… and he’s been pretty effective. He seems to move the puck much better while entering or while in the offensive zone. And he’s got one heck of a shot.

Bergeron scored the overtime winner last night and it was really a beautiful goal.

Finally… I’m sure mostly everyone has notice Andrei Markov is back in the lineup which is truely one of the best Christmas gifts the Canadiens could have received. Andrei looked rusty in his first game back… for about 2 shifts. Since then he’s looked pretty good. Markov has looked really good moving the puck… Bergeron’s frist goal last night came off the quick puck moving of Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Markov. Just beautiful to watch.

And now… the highlights and stats!

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