Road Warriors

The Habs won consecutive games for only the second time all year, and are 2-1 so far on their longest road trip of the year. Tonight's game against the Lightning, saw the Habs come out with their all too typical slow start. First period heroics between the pipes by Huet, and yet another powerplay blast by Souray, allowed the Habs to sneak out of the first period, tied 1-1.

The Habs outplayed the Lighting for the remaining 2 periods, and pulled out a 3-1 victory, against a hot Lighting team. All and all a good road win for the Habs. The defensive play of Markov, and Komi was stellar. The defensive duo was on the ice every time the duo of Vinny L, and St Louis were on the ice, and did a fantastic job shutting down the hot pair. Souray, although ugly at times in his own end, scored 2 more powerplay goals, and Rookie Gui Latendresse, continued his hot scoring, when he tallied the Habs 3rd powerplay goal of the night, a laser beam of a shot to the top hand corner, which helped the Habs seal the deal.

The standouts tonight, were Markov, and Komi. Hat tip to Souray because of the pp goals, and Huet who was great again tonight. I liked the way the second line looked tonight, Kosti is a keeper. Dandy who played the wing, had great jump, and hit everything, and Begin who played on a line with Dandy, played his best game of the year. As for the guys who are struggling, Ryder, is really fighting the puck, he hasn't been the same player since Higgins got hurt. Janne well ya Janne, Janne had another sub par game, he sat and looked at Vinny P, and allowed the Lighting forward to deflect in the only Lighting goal....he whined when he got a penalty, he was crap, I expect that that may have been his last game as a Hab for awhile, barring injury of course. Other then Ryder, and Janne, the Habs played a solid team game, Carbo was able to roll 4 lines, and they all contributed in their own way. I wasn't blown away by the Habs performance tonight, but I wasn't disappointed either..this was a good honest road win. Go Habs Go.