This cloud is losing it's silver lining

Well,if the silver lining of this cloud was making the playoffs,it's fading fast.Once again quite a disappointing performance all around in a situation where nothing less than two points would have been acceptable.

Allright where shall i begin...ah yes,let's start with the positive,when your best player is a guy who hasn't played in two months you know you're in trouble.Like a flashback, the line of LATENDRESSE,LAPIERRE and KOSTOPOULOS was by far the best out there for the habs from the openning faceoff.LATENDRESSE with two goals(incuding a beauty on his second of the night)looks like he's been away from this team enough not to be poisonned by whatever has been afflicting his teammates.Maybe they should quarantine him knowing how strongly and rapidly this malaise is spreading.Once again the leaders(if any??)were quite invisible last night,with KOVY still trying to dipsy-doodle thru three guys and KOIVU just not doing enough for me to even notice his jersey number one has to wonder if any of these guys are really still even bothered by the idea of being done in little over a month.Defensively we were again just terrible,from KOMISAREK to BRISEBOIS they all looked the same to me on this night...Allowing JARKO RUUTU to dance around you and score on a shot that i'm sure CAREY PRICE would like another shot at is UNACCEPTABLE,this guy is a glorified DARCY TUCKER and you just made him look like a superstar and gave him a chance at being on the highlight reels all week with HABS shaking their heads in the background.

I've been getting alot of heat about my confidence in CAREY PRICE so like a big man i am going to address that very issue...Bad game,bad goals,yeah some were pretty bad but as a goalie i can only blame him for the RUUTU goal which was soft by any standards.It's fine to blame the goalie when things are not going your way,but please,PPPLLLEEEAAASSEEE!!!Don't tell me that the all around team performance doesn't affect the performances of your goalies.Hockey as so much to do with confidence(in yourself and your teammates)that more than in other sports the weekest link in the chain really weakens the group.I will give you this,HALAK has to start saturday against the LEAFS.If i'm BOB GAINEY i'm not over thinking this,lines stay the same,start HALAK and let these bums decide their own fate because let's face i doubt BOB or alot of these free agents are coming back next year.Thanks for picking the centennial to shit the bed!!

Bon now i'm angry again,so let's look at our situation,we are tied for 8th spot with CAROLINA one point up on FLORIDA but with a game in-hand(mind you these games in-hand scare me more than anything).It's crunch time,start HALAKvs.the LEAFS and then come right back with PRICE against ATLANTA.


DON'T GIVE UP JUST YET,if the playoffs started today we would play WASHINGTON which i think we can beat,we've showed that if you shut down OVECHKIN-SEMIN and BACKSTROM you've got a good shot at winning especially with JOSE between the pipes.I tell you friends do not throw in the towel because if we do squeak in against BOSTON or WASHINGTON these guys might surprise you and give you more than one round in the playoffs.In the mean time,if you are going to the game this week how about letting BOB,MR BOIVIN and MR GILLETT know exactly how you feel by wearing that wonderful 240$$ jersey with a bums name on it accompanied by a brown paper bag over your head,because face it, this is embarassing...
Think i'm kidding, watch the game next saturday(vs buffalo)and you will see me sporting that exact outfit...

Come on now we ain't dead yet...but barely breathing...

GO HABS GO!!!!

MARC OUT