Habs Come Back And Beat Sabres 4-3 In Overtime

The Montreal Canadiens played a horrible game tonight, they came out flat, and with no energy, a sign that they didn’t play for 3 days, but still managed to beat the Buffalo Sabres in overtime.

The Habs looked as though they had no interest in the game, with the Ottawa Senators 4 points behind them, they had to win. The Habs looked as though they were hoping that the Sabres would score on themselves, like Chris Higgins did. Higgins tried to kick the puck to the boards, but it ended up in the net instead. The Sabres second goal was decent, but the their third goal was scored thanks to Mark Streit coughing up the puck behind Carey Price. Streit then assisted on all the Habs goals in the third period, and overtime, and Higgins scored the game winner, they both settled things after being the cause of some Sabres goals.

The scoring went like this, for the Canadiens, Alex Kovalev, assisted by Mikhail Grabovski, and Francis Bouillon, next was Tomas Plekanec, from Mark Streit, and Kovalev, then from Plekanec again assisted by Streit, and Andrei Kostitsyn. In overtime, Chris Higgins scored assisted by Streit, and Saku Koivu. For the Sabres it was Drew Stafford, from Derek Roy, and Andrej Sekera, then Nathan Paetsch, from Derek Roy, and Thomas Vanek, and finally Daniel Paille from Jason Pominville.

Both Ryan Miller, and Carey Price were good, Price stopped 35 shots while Miller stopped 25 shots, unfortunately for Miller, he let in three unanswered goals, 2 in the third, and 1 in overtime. Jesus Price was priceless tonight as two out of the three goals scored on him were a result of his own team-mates.

This was another come back win for the Habs this year, and they now sit atop the Eastern Conference again with 98 points, 1 point more than the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Canadiens also put two more points in the bank, and now have a 6 point lead over the Sens in the Northeast division. The Canadiens now need to win one more game, and hope Ottawa loses one more, or the Habs have to win two more games and the division is theirs.

The Habs now face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, a team which was eliminated from the post season yesterday, will the Leafs make the Canadiens life easy, or will they play hard against the Habs as they usually do? Komisarek is still out for the Habs, hopefully someone else will keep that annoying Darcy Tucker in check. If the Canadiens play like they did tonight against the Leafs, they will lose, so let’s hope they come out of Toronto with a win, and force the Sens to win all their remaining games.

There is some suggestions coming from Montreal radio stations that Jaroslav Halak could be in nets tomorrow, either way, the Habs will have to play better, sure they didn’t play for three days and were a little rusty, but it’s time to get back to work, the season isn’t over yet.