(4-5-0) Florida Panthers 3-1 Montreal Canadiens (7-3-1)
Final
Last night in Montreal, it was the day before Halloween and the Habs were looking to win their 5th straight. But unfortunately it didn't end the way they wanted as they fell 3-1 to the Panthers. It started back in the first period when Matthais shot was stopped but Frolik put the rebound in past Price to make it 1-0. Then early in the second the Habs would get it back on a rap around goal from Matthieu Darche (2nd goal) so were tied.
9 minutes after that Booth got a parcial breakaway and Spacek tripped him. It was called a Penalty shot. But if you look at the replay Booth wasn't completely away from everyone. So it was a bad call. On the penalty shot, Booth would score blocker side on Price to make it 2-1. That would eventually be your winner as the Panthers added one more late in the third (from Matthais) as the Habs 4 game win streak came to an end 3-1 is the final.But the Panthers won mostly due to tremendous goaltending from Vokoun who made 40 saves on 41 shots."We did what we had to do on the road," Panthers coach Peter DeBoer said.
"We got great goaltending. That's a great team. They come at you with a lot of firepower, a lot of speed, and we needed to be at the top of our game in order to get a win." In the lose, Carey Price made 28 saves on 31 shots and Markov made his season debut and had 5 shots on net in 23 minutes of ice time. The Canadiens also struggled on the powerplay as they went 0 for 6.
"I thought we had three pretty good scoring chances out there," Montreal's Tomas Plekanec said. "Give the credit to Vokoun, he played well. He made some very strong saves through the whole game and we didn't play as well as we should have." The Habs next game will be Tuesday against the Blue Jackets on TSN-HABS and RDS.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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