Habs Not Awestruck In L.A.!!

The Montreal Canadiens won in L.A. over the L.A. Kings 5-2 today in what was pretty much a boring game for the most part.

The Habs scoring broke down like this: Patrice Brisebois, unassisted, Saku Koivu, with assists from Mark Streit, and Andrei Markov, Guillaume Latendresse, from Sergei Kostitsyn, and Josh Gorges, Andrei Kostitsyn, from Tomas Plekanec, and Roman Hamerlik, Tom Kostopoulos, from Latendresse, and Hamerlik. The scoring for the Kings is like this: Rob Blake, from Mike Cammaleri, and Anze Kopitar, and Anze Kopitar, from Patrick O’Sullivan.

The Canadiens played poorly, but apparently they have enough talent to play poorly and win against the worst team in the NHL this year. Jaroslav Halak was the Habs best player making 35 saves, safe to say that if Halak did not make some great saves, the Habs would not have won this one.

The Kings may be one of the worst defensive teams this year but their offensive capabilities are good, and they showed it, all they need is a good goalie, and a couple of defense-man to round out that team next year. Unfortunately for the Kings they ran in to a deep enough team that even if they play poorly, they can still win.

The Canadiens now go to Anaheim to face the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, the Ducks just lost Corey Perry for the rest of the regular season, which will help the Habs, as they will need all the help they can get to beat the defending champions. The Ducks method consists of aggressive for-checking, punishing hits, and great defence. With the Habs playing their last road game on this Western Conference swing, they might be tired, but they’ll have to suck it up and play their best game of the year to beat the Ducks.

Carey Price will make the start against the Ducks, he will be run over, screened, and bothered all game long, hopefully his getting accustomed the NHL big boys style of play is over as the Habs will need him down the stretch. Sunday’s game will be a test not only for the Habs, but for Price as well.