They Just Keep Getting Uglier and Uglier

There is only so much a blogger can say after watching a game like this one. Montreal has now dropped 4 consecutively and are showing no signs of ending the drought. A number of factors key in to this. First off, we've allowed 19 goals (4-5-5-5) in this drought. Price's awful comeback includes 16 goals allowed and 0 wins. Maybe all these players returning to the lineup has psychologically influenced the team? Well it certainly hasn't helped because were not scoring either. The effort has not been there.

Honestly, Sergei Kostitsyn has not been an NHL-caliber player since day 1. It's almost as if he believes his spot is cemented into the roster. Hmph, I beg to differ and as soon as Tanguay's back, he will be sent to Hamilton just as quickly. If it weren't for all of these injuries, he would be with Don Lever right now. Brother Andrei hasn't exactly lit the lamp of late. Since going on a 7-game point streak, he's vanished from the score sheet in the last 4 games (hmm, seeing that number a lot..) And Gorges! My man Gorgeous Gorges is now -11 in his last 8 games, Josh of all people! This isn't golf buddy, it's not 11 under par after 8 holes.

Now looking back to last night. Whew, 5-1 to Florida. Ouch. Boy I would love to see Jay Bouwmeester in a Habs jersey. Apparently, we were too stupid to pick up on the fact that he pinches to the back door every time. Didn't he score one like that? And almost set up another? Florida went into this one 27th in the league on the PP but managed to pot 2 on us. Disgusting.

And can someone please tell me what's with this "lose all hope when we're down"? Why is it that when we go down early, no matter how bad the team is, we fall back and pray for the buzzer. Isn't that the first thing that we were told as kids, never to give up. It's ridiculous!

For those of you who watched the game on TSN, you might have noticed the stat that was shown. If my memory serves me correctly, they said that Montreal is 17-3-3 when they score the first goal. I wonder what our record is when we don't? We dig ourselves into to holes that were to stubborn to get out of.

For whatever reason, I have a strange feeling about our upcoming games. I highly doubt that Carbo will allow the "dream team" to drop their 5th in a row to LA on home ice. Even more likely, we just might show up to play against Boston.

Alright, I'm done.

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