Cammalleri and Plekanec do good work shorthanded but this is ruined by another soft goal on Price. 2-0 Stars.
Habs are slow and sloppy defensively. Woywitka, Tinordi and Weber have been guilty of turnovers or sloppy play. Habs took a penalty after a flurry around Price.
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Cammalleri and Plekanec do good work shorthanded but this is ruined by another soft goal on Price. 2-0 Stars.
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3-0 Stars after someone fell in Price's feet. I give him a pass on that one. Terrible defensive coverage.
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Tinordi needs to work on his coordination and decision making with the puck. Also, please put Emelin on the ice more often.
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First period ends, still 3-0 Stats. Best Habs player so far is Brock Trotter. He skates well and is confident with the puck.
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Cole/Plek/Camm looked good on the PP. Cole ripped one off the post. The 2nd unit did nothing and I didn't really catch who was out there. Tons of new names and numbers to get used to.
Meanwhile another defensive turnover and Barch was left wide open for a goal. 4-0 Stars.
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CBS Sportsline 14 team H2H keeper (21-man roster, 14 keepers)
Weekly lineup changes (start 9F (3/4C and 6/5W) 5D 2G)
G, A, PPP, SOG, BS, +/-, GAA, W, SV%
Angry Little Elves (formerly Montreal Maulers)
2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 League Champions
C: Tavares Hintz Larkin Jenner Seguin Schenn Backlund
W: Panarin Marchand Hyman Keller Forsberg Batherson Rust Moore Smith
D: Josi Hamilton Weegar Montour Ekholm Myers Parayko Pettersson Seeler
G: Vasilevskiy Swayman Kuemper
Cole scores on a nice wrist shot. The top line looks good. The other lines... not so much.
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Andrei Kostitsyn scores on a great wrist shot.
Did someone serve a round of Red Bull? Habs get about 2 minutes straight in the Stars zone with Kostitsyn leading the charge. The team changed all 5 players and maintained possession. Woywitka finally slapped in a goal. 4-3 Stars.
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Ian Schultz falls on top in a nice even scrap. Lawson looking good in goal since entering after the score became 4-3.
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I would seriously throw my wallet at Kostitsyn if he could play like this all season.
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CBS Sportsline 14 team H2H keeper (21-man roster, 14 keepers)
Weekly lineup changes (start 9F (3/4C and 6/5W) 5D 2G)
G, A, PPP, SOG, BS, +/-, GAA, W, SV%
Angry Little Elves (formerly Montreal Maulers)
2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 League Champions
C: Tavares Hintz Larkin Jenner Seguin Schenn Backlund
W: Panarin Marchand Hyman Keller Forsberg Batherson Rust Moore Smith
D: Josi Hamilton Weegar Montour Ekholm Myers Parayko Pettersson Seeler
G: Vasilevskiy Swayman Kuemper
It's 6-3 right now. I'll go ahead and do the write-up right now.
My Habs' 3 stars:
1 - Erik Cole
2 - Andrei Kostitsyn
3 - Brock Trotter
My observations:
-I thought Yannick Weber disappointed. Gill was the only other Habs regular from last season on the blueline tonight and I thought Weber would step up and be more of a leader. He had plenty of chances but had more turnovers than anything and made the same rookie mistakes that the rookies are expected to make.
-Rafael Diaz looked much better than Weber. He plays the same style but was far more assertive. He was a bit slow and weak on the final goal by the Stars as the opposing forwards beat him down the ice to score 3-on-1 with Woywitka defending.
-I wonder if we'll be seeing Travis Moen in the press box as 13th forward this season. Brock Trotter could steal a spot and I think his speed is far more useful to the team.
-Emelin looked a bit green but the skills are there. I think he can be effective in a lot of situations because he skates well and does have some stick skills.
Other observations can be found in prior posts in this thread.
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Preview for tonight's game, including the return of Max Pacioretty...
French: http://www.rds.ca/canadien/chroniques/326766.html
English: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=376345
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First period over... 1-0 Buffalo.
Budaj looks good. Very calm and efficient. The goals was a cross-ice one-timer that barely squeezed by.
Gomez is injured so Pacioretty-Desharnais-Gionta is the top line for this evening. They looked very good together. All three are go-getter types and they cycle very well. Pacioretty was particularly physical.
Gorges is in. He looks good and was effective killing a penalty.
Subban looks like Subban. Some good play and took a bad penalty.
Andreas Engqvist looked good yesterday and is playing well today as well.
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