Habs vs Flyers - 2010 Eastern Conference Final

talloola

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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
 

talloola

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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.
 

Mowich

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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.
 

Avro

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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?:lol:

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

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

 

Mowich

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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!
 

Avro

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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.

Four Habs Fans
 

Mowich

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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??? :smile:

GO, CANADIENS, GO.
 

Mowich

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The Montreal Symphony Orchestra accompanied the audience of a packed Bell Center tonight in the playing and singing of Oh Canada – it sent shivers down my spine. Way Cool, Montreal.
Well Avro, they scored a goal! Good on the Habs. They are playing like demons so far. Power play coming up for the Habs.

Go Habs, Go!

Canadiens just got another goal!!!!!!!!!!!! YEE HAW! These guys jsut aren't letting up.
 

Mowich

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keep the updates comming ;)

We're now in the third period and the Habs are up 4 to 1 ( the Flyers finally scored a goal). Time now: 11:05.

Bart, your team has proved that 'little guys' have powers all their own. Sure the Flyers are bigger but the Habs are faster and they proved it tonight. Lapierre went after Pronger and Richards off and on all night - really took it to them.
The guys are all over the ice, in the Flyers faces, stealing pucks - they are eveywhere tonight. They have done everything they had to do. Don't know how many shots on goal they have, but it is a lot - Niemi got a real work-out.

I just wish they would not take so many penalties - though I gotta say their penalty killing is spot on.

Your team will sleep well tonight -they are going to be exhausted.

You have to be proud of these guys. I sure am. As I sign off there are only 8 minutes and 20 or so seconds left in the third. The Habs have won this won. YEE HAW!!!!!!!!

MONTREAL CANADIENS RULE! :smile:

Forgot to mention that, one goal aside, Halak has had some rave saves.
 

Mowich

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thanks :smile:

You are so welcome. :smile:

With three minutes left, the Flyers have pulled their goalie - not that they have much of a chance of winning but our boys are getting pooped.

And now a fight has broken out. hartnell and hammrlik are punching each other out, gloves and sticks all over the ice. I really don't like this kind of sh*t.

Cammalari and Gill are having a laugh over it. Apparently Briere and ?Sawchuk were going at it then the above got into it.

Still waiting to see what is going to happen.

Okay, someone was called for interference and both teams got a penalty for fighting but Montreal has a power play with less than 2 minutes left.

Some goofy Flyer player - didn't catch his name, broke his stick and then picked up the puck and threw it across the ice. He is gone.
 

Mowich

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Icing on the cake, Beregeron just scored a goal with less than a minute left to play. Habs take the game 5 to 1. A very convincing win.

YEAH, CANADIENS.
 

talloola

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good for habs, there is 'life' again, and another game at
bell centre in two days, so anything can happen now.

good game tonight, habs came to life, and philly went to
sleep.