Habs vs Flyers - 2010 Eastern Conference Final

Thought I would start this thread for anyone who wanted to comment on this series.

Game One in Philidelphia - the City of Brotherly Love.

The talking heads on TSN have called for a Blackhawk vs Flyers final. It would be so sweet to see them proved wrong, most especially in the case of the Habs.

Oh, oh the Flyers just scored the first goal with about 16 seconds left in the first period. It came during a power play for the Flyers.

GO, CANADIENS, GO!

Nice to see you converted

Hi Bart, thought I might as well add my voice to the chorus of Canadians who are now watching the play-offs due to the stirling performance of the Montreal Canadiens.

So yes, I am definitely a convert!

GO, CANADIENS, GO.

Well the Canadiens are the last resort for Canada...

I'm not holding my breath, though, although I would like to see a Canadian team win the cup...

The Flyers just scored another goal, early in the second period. Come on Montreal!

They are that, Risus.

The only team I hold my breath for are the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Montreal had better decide to play sometime soon; they are terrible tonight at handling the puck.

You got that right, TenPenny. The Flyers just got another goal at the tail end of a power play and are up 3 to zip over the Habs.

Come on Habs.

No, no, no.........the Flyers just got another goal on a power play and the Canadiens pulled Halak and put Price in for the rest of the second period.

4 - 0 for the Flyers.

COME ON HABS!

Probably a good thing - in playoff hockey the results for game one are generally contrary to the final outcome. I remember when the Canucks won the first two against Detroit and Detroit went on to sweep in 6. Don't despair.

The Habs look slow tonight. Too many brewskies after the Pens series.

Well, I am glad the Habs got that out of their system now. I think it is safe to say that with barely two minutes left in the third, the Flyers have taken this one.

Flyers 6 - Habs 0

Not even Bill Mosienko can save this one.

Too right, Kreskin.

The score above is the final.

Next time.

not much of a game from habs tonight. flyers looked so much
better, and did their shooting after creating a screen so
that halak coundn't see the puck, good idea?, why didn't
someone else think of that. lol lol

forwards on habs didn't look good tonight, as flyers were
all over them, as flyers have lots of grit and physical play, and talent as well, hope the rest of the series is
a little more interesting than the first game.

I don't know why the Habs seem to do this for the first game. They need to come out hard and fast on Tuesday.

Not this BS again...

The Flyers are ANOTHER team with more Canadians on the roster than the Canadiens (go check the rosters at NHL.com if you don't believe me)... why do people insist that Montreal is "the last hope" for Canada? The Cup will spend more time in the country (with the players who will travel to their homes with it rather than a couple days in Montreal) if a team like the Flyers wins it.

The Flyers looked good and they did a couple things the Caps and Pens didn't do: they played 60 minutes and they went to the net without the puck. Laviolette is a more seasoned coach than Bylsma and just better than Boudreau. Martin will have his hands full against him.

The series isn't over by a long shot but I am hoping Philly puts an end to Montreal, swiftly.

This is why on another thread I stated the Flyers were the team I feared the most.

Many people forget that the Flyers were picked to win the cup at the begining of the year by many sports writers. Injuries, chemistry and goaltending seemed to get the best of them but they are comming together just at the right time....or wrong time as far as the Habs and Bruins go.

I suspect my Habs will get swept or beaten in 5.

Oh well, the cinderella story had to end sometime.

Habs. Must be destroyed.

Maybe the Flyers listened to Don Cherry during the Habs game with the Pens. He talked about how Washington 'let' Halak see where the puck was and thus stop shots on the net. Pittsburgh picked up on it in game six but seemed to forget about it in game seven.

I hope the Habs were just suffering a game of bad nerves and that they will recoup and come roaring back for game two.

GO, CANADIENS, GO.

this, in my opinion is the biggest game of the playoffs
for the habs, if they can't rise to the occasion tonight
they have come to the end of the road, and kudos to them
if that happens, great run.
Phillidelphia are coming together and looking like the
team that was touted to be a cup contender at the beginning
of the season, everyone getting healthy, even carter and
laparierre might be back soon, and briere looks like he
did years ago, (as he has struggled with lots of injuries),
and gagne playing very strong,(if leighton stays solid), then all of that strength can lead them to the stanley cup finals.

So, come on habs, if you still have it in you to fight your
way to a win tonight, you better do it.

GO HABS GO

Flyers 3 Habs 0

Next game in Montreal.

Montreal has fallen flat on their face...

X2

They'll blame the Philly goalie but they did it to themselves.

many times, trying to lay blame is wrong, but it is right
many times, to recognize when the other team is just better,
and respect that, and also be proud of your own team.

every team in every sport will always meet anothet team
that is better, either sooner or later, that is life, and
no one has any control over that, and it is also how we
all push ourselves to improve, either in a game or in life,
by trying to keep pace, keep up, do better, be the best.

the habs might do much better in their own rink, maybe.
but if they don't, and their year comes to an end, that's
just the way it has to be, i'm sure the fans in the east
want the best team to represent them when they play the
best team in the west, just as we, in the west want the same, it will make a better stanley cup final, and true
hockey fans want that.

You make some very good points, tallola. I thought the Candadiens played much, much better than in the previous game. They were more disciplined, they fought harder for the puck, they were faster for the most part but they simply couldn't get past Niemi. I don't blame the Habs for their effort at all.

The Flyers were hot and so was Niemi.

The Canadiens may simply have met their match as happens in any type of sports. I hasten to add that they have suprised us before and could again - after all it is only game two.

GO, CANADIENS, GO.

How can you put blame on any team that shouldn't be in the semi final in the first place?

If anyone want's to lay blame give the Caps and Pens a call?

No matter what, I'm proud of this team.

I just hope they score one goal in this series....just one.

You have every right to be proud of your team, Avro. The Canadiens have provided us with some of the most exciting hockey this play-off season and their come-back has many of us praying that they can do it again.

GO, CANADIENS, GO!

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one team to undo the total jinxes which have connected them with the possibility of imminent sweepage, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of the national hockey league and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind and to the law of hockey averages requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to stop sucking donkey cock.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but that Scott Hartnell was made ugly, that they are endowed, and that Jaro Halak is well endowed, by their Coach with certain unalienable rights, that among these are goals, assists and the pursuit of the Stanley Cup. That to secure these rights, teams are created among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the Bettman. For should the Bettman wish to see you fail, he will call the referees of the world against you and make them blow their mighty whistle, again, and again, and again. That whenever any Canadiens become destructive and appear heading towards sweepage, it is the right of the people to request that Marc-André Bergeron see limited ice time and that he not be allowed to use a stick.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that the Canadiens long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; but the complete absence of goal scoring and interest in life, or of persistent hockey becoming of an asshole requires a verbal ass-whooping by the Coach. All experience hath shown that Habs fans are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable such as the top shelf habits of a Daniel Brière, may the Lord castrate this native son, than to right themselves by abolishing the goal scoring to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, a word most Flyer fans do not know, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce goal scoring under the absolute despotism of tyrannical Flyers fans, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw the book on this series out and start anew with a plan that would include scoring goals, and to provide new hope for their fans who have contemplated bridges to jump off.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these fans, 17 years. 17 years waiting in desperate agony for this display of impotence; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of suckage which is leading them to the territory of sweepage. The history of the present team is a history of repeated injuries, to Markov, Gill and more, but also one of defiance, defiance of what some have deemed the impossible, or what the Bettman has called the unwanted.

To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid word. Go, you frickin Habs.

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And here I thought the Habs were simply having a problem because they are smaller than the Flyers - though great in spirit, I might add. What do I know???

GO, CANADIENS, GO.