Last night in Washington, it was do or die for Montreal as they trailed the series 3-1. But like Price said before the game they weren't going down without a fight. The Habs got off to a great start with 2 goals in less than 10 minutes from Mike Cammalleri (3rd goal) and Travis Moen (1st goal was the game winner). But thats all they had in the game. As the Canadiens put Halak in net to start the game and he played almost perfect with a total of 37 saves on 38 shots to grab the Habs a 2-1 win to keep them in the playoffs.But it wasn't only Halak who played well. The Habs played exactly the way they had to play to win. Which is playing desprite hockey and playing as a team."I liked our hunger, I liked our desperation," said Cammalleri, who is the only Canadiens player to get a point in all five games of the series. "It felt like we wanted to make sure we got to go home to play another one."
A few days ago Ovechkin (who had a goal in Game 5) said that Halak looked nervous in the net. But Halak finaly commented on what he said and Jaroslav Halak said he can talk all he wants."You know what? He can say what he wants," Halak said. "If you squeeze the bottle, your hand's going to shake. That's what I think. I don't think I was nervous. It was the same thing tonight, and I was squeezing the bottle the same way."Halak is right in a sense that he can talk all he wants because hey, looked at how Halak played last night. I'm sure Ovechkin is wishing he never said anything about Halak right about now.
Game 6 of this series will be on Monday night at 7:00pm E.t on TSN, Versus and RDS.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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