Wild 4, Habs 5 in Shootout
Double Anthem Night - in Canada! Man, is there anything prettier than O' Canada sung in French? I think not. Veilleux and Ryan White drop the gloves like 10 seconds into the first period. Veilleux?? Dude, that's anybody's job but yours. But props for taking on that piece of crap White.
Wild are already on their heels with a 4 minute penalty kill. Ortmeyer's stick caught Palushaj.
Falk commits a holding penalty within seconds of the double minor so now there's 3 guys in the box.
P.K. Suban scores, cuz that's how it's done. Habs up 1-0 and their power play still continues on thanks to Falk.
Backstrom out, looks like either leg strain or groin pull. Harding comes in - and to be honest I really wanted to see him in net here anyways.
Sure, I say something nice about Harding and the Habs score on him. 4:28 minutes into the game and the Habs are up 2-0. Habs have 8 shots on goal, zero for the Wild. Say goodnight, Wild fans.
First favorite tweet of the game: 2-0 Montreal. Eller gets a pass through the slot and scores. Find a worse 4:28 stretch for the
Another penalty on Minnesota
Second favorite tweet of the night: Remember when we were accidentally good or lucky, and too dumb to know any better?
Third favorite tweet of the night: Pepe Le Pew RT
12 minutes into the game and the Wild have ZERO shots on goal. I'm guessing Vicki has turned the channel to watch something on the Lifetime network. C'mon, anything is better than this crap.
Finally, a Wild power play. Don't have any idea why that excites me. Powe throws the puck on net and Kassian pops it in. Holy Crap - We SCORED!!! Habs 2, Wild 1.
It's a group hug ;) Every player on the ice, except the goalies, are throwing haymakers. It figures White is at the core of it. He double teamed Veilleux with Campoli. Campoli gets nothing and White gets all but tossed from the game. Veilleux in the box for fighting.
Brad Staubitz in the box to help serve White's penalties - he's used to being in the box.
Wild get their second power play of the game to wrap up the first period which will carry into the second period. I just don't know if I can carry over for the remaining 2 periods. I can only watch Veilleux get the shit kicked out of him for so long and then it just gets old.
Habs get another penalty to start the second period - wait for it...wait...Staubitz going to the box.
Habs seem to be wanting to give the Wild every chance to tie the game, if not take the lead and the Wild couldn't care less. Turning pucks over left and right, regardless of being on the power play.
Russo tweeting that Cullen is having a very tough start for this game. START??? The game started 23 minutes ago!! Dude is so late he may as well just stay in the locker room. Or just board the bus for the airport, along with the majority of his team mates.
Clutterbuck tripped Bourque and the Habs scored on the ensuing power play. Habs 3, Wild 1.
And yet another Wild penalty - Peters goes for boarding. Between the players not showing up ready to play and the accumulated time spent in the penalty box I'm pretty sure the Habs could just skate out there alone for at least one whole period. And we're not done with the second period.
Third period is just a repeat of the second period - penalties, turnovers and nothing generated by the first three lines of the Wild. Ironically, it's the fourth line who's actually driving to the net, when they can find it with two hands...
At what point does Yeo need to be concerned about his job? Not that it's completely his fault but since you can't fire the entire team...Richards 2.0?
Oh, Habs scored again. They're up 4-1. And now they're on another power play.
7 minutes to go in this game. I hate going to bed mad. I would have had a much better time if I had flown back to MN for the Wild Pub Crawl event tonight. Drinking while the team plays, with Wes Walz no less, seems to be the only thing worth looking forward to for the rest of this season.
Sorry, I wandered off and didn't catch Kassian's second goal of the game. Yay, team!!
Fuckin' All Star decides he's not going to be shown up by Kassian of all players and snipes one past Price. Don't look now but the Wild have come within 1 point of tying the game up with just over a minute to play.
Kurtis Foster takes down a Habs player cruising towards our empty net, no call. Somebody explain that to me - and to the Canadiens fans who are frothing at the mouth.
Setoguchi takes off his invisible cloak and follows up Heatley's goal with one of his own. The game is tied with 8 seconds to go.
OT - after being down 4-1
Thought Vicki had gone to bed. Em had faith, good girl!
Habs fought hard to end this game in overtime but the Wild and Harding stood tall.
Shootout
Cullen no go. Heatley looked stupid. C'mon Seto...overskates the puck and falls down. EPIC FAIL. Shoulda used Kassian.
I guess one point is better than the potential ass whooping the Habs could have handed them. Just think what the Wild could have done if they had actually shown up for the first 50 minutes of the game.
Way To Go Matt Kassian! First 2 goal game in the NHL!
Koivu Not All That, Or The Bag Of Chips
Finally, somebody higher up is saying what I've been saying and what many of us have known for at least two seasons now: Koivu is a second line center and not the franchise player the Wild constantly try to shove down our throats. While I've never been a huge fan of Buccigross his take on the current status of the Wild spot on.
Looking To The Future
Charlie Coyle signed his entry level contract today with the Wild. That just leaves Mikael Granlund and Jason Zucker to sign their entry level contracts.
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