Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau gave Halak a chance to shine in goal as Carey Price struggled to win."He's been waiting for the chance for a long time," Carbonneau said after Halak's 34-save performance gave the Canadiens a 3-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. "It's unfortunate for someone like (No. 1 goalie) Carey Price, but hopefully Halak will grab the bull by the horns and win us five, six or seven games in a row." Yesterday, Carbonneau told reporters he had given Price enough chances and that he would ride Halak as long as he keeps on winning games.Halak responded with his first shutout of the Season and his first Shutout since Saturday March 15, 2008."I'm not looking at what's in the newspapers, I'm just trying to focus on the game," the 23-year-old Halak said. "It's just nice to win two in a row. It's been a while." Halak's right it has been a while, because the last time the Canadiens recorded 2 straight wins was on January 17th 2009.
Tomas Plekanec had a goal (his 16th goal of the season) and an asisst, Andrei Markov had a powerplay goal (his 8th goal of the season) and Maxim Lapierre added an empty-net goal (his 11th goal of the season) in the 3-0 Victory. "It was really an uneventful night for me - I was pretty bored," said Luongo, a Montreal native who shut out the Canadiens on his last visit two seasons ago. "We played hard and spent most of the night in their zone." "I thought we played a good game, to be honest," added Canucks veteran Mats Sundin, whose team capped a four-game road trip. "We've been on the road for almost 10 days and we came out with that kind of effort. But it was all missed opportunities tonight." Every time Sundin touched the puck he would get bood by the Canadiens fans.The Canadiens killed the two-minute 5-on-3 (in the first)and just as it was about to end, Saku Koivu stole the puck from Kyle Wellwood, then poked it past Bieksa to Plekanec who was coming out of the box. Plekanec beat Luongo glove side for the first goal of the game which became the game winning goal.
Written by Andrew Di Pardo
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