Baloney. Everything I'm hearing by the commentators and the fans has been critical of how the Bruins played on the whole, without spirit, without drive, and with inadequate technical skills. Fans are looking to improvement not at the Canadiens respect crisis.
Look, if Marchand is a piece of crap, then he's a piece of crap...Canadian born and raised. I for one never let uniforms matter concerning character. But when some come here and infuse a hockey discussion, no matter how intense the rivalry, with allusions to racism and wholesale SICK labels like "white trash" then it's definite it's reached into a psychosis of insecurities and hate. What I've seen written by a few Canadiens fans is the text equivalent of those Montreal riots. I can't remember anyhting like that in years of angry Red Sox-Yankees posts ever going that far off the deep end. Some of you guys have lost all standing to criticize the Leafs fans again after your posts.
http://nypost.com/2014/05/17/woe-canada-rangers-destroy-habs-7-2-in-montreal/
Rangers destroy Habs, 7-2, in Montreal
MONTREAL — A House of Horrors no longer. Instead, what went down on Saturday afternoon was a Bell Centre Beatdown.
The Rangers quieted a handful of demons along with the raucous home crowd in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, hammering the Canadiens in a 7-2 win that got this best-of-seven series off on an unexpected high note.
“The best part about playing on the road is making great plays and not letting them get into it, not letting them have something to cheer about,” Marc Staal said. “That’s a good feeling when you’re able to do that in a road rink — especially here.”
This creaking and wonderful building was one first-year Rangers coach Alain Vigneault had to make a joke about, explaining to his team throughout the season that “there are no ghosts here.” Before their 1-0 win on Nov. 16, the Rangers had lost eight in a row in Montreal. And goalie Henrik Lundqvist had failed to register a win here since March 17, 2009, sitting four straight in favor of a backup, his most recent start coming Jan. 15, 2012.
“You guys like to talk about it, you like to ask me about it, I haven’t played here in a while, but it’s still the same game,” said Lundqvist, who finished with 20 saves on 22 shots, none bigger than early in the second period when he made dazzling stops on P.K. Subban and Max Pacioretty to keep the lead at 2-0.
“Last time we played here, we had a different team and I think I’ve grown as a goalie, as well. But every time you play a game, you have to show yourself and your teammates that you can play. So, yeah, we got a great start here.”
The Rangers scored seven goals from seven different players — including Rick Nash, his first of the playoffs — the first time the franchise has done that in the postseason since 1983. Eleven players had at least one point, and it was the most goals the Rangers have scored in the postseason since a 7-0 win over the Trashers in 2007.
“There is a lot of hockey left,” said defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who was an offensive powerhouse, going to the net to help produce Mats Zuccarello’s goal that made it 2-0 early in the first, and later scoring the fifth goal on a power play. “We can’t fall into the trap of just looking at the score.”
It looks like the Canadiens and their fans were too busy obsessing with Boston to get ready for the next game. Did the pure unsoiled Canadiens and their fans forget you get NOTHING ofr winning a second round series??? Apparently, because the result shows a total failure to mentally show up.
Hey, there's two more rounds of hockey to play...if you get by this one. Play like that again...and you'll get only 3 more games.
Price was 20-24 giving up 4 goals in 2 periods, BEFORE he got hurt...unless they're dumb enough to keep hurt goalies in.
Be very careful. I was there in late April once during the first round and after just the first game the CAR-BE-QUES started. Yup just one game, not against Boston, and the insecurities BLAZED!!!
WOE CANADA!
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