(2-1-1) Montreal Canadiens 2-1 Buffalo Sabres (1-3-1)
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Last night in Buffalo N.Y It was the Sabres 40th anniversary Celebration but they couldn't get a win. Before I get to the game summary. Here's some history on this Buffalo Sabres team. The Sabres organization started 40 years ago to the day of last nights game (Oct.15th, 1970). Ironically it was against the Montreal Canadiens who beat the Sabres on that night by the score of 3-0. The Ceremony began by redoing the faceoff that happened 40 years Prior between the most winning player in NHL history former Habs Captain "the pocket Rocket" Henri Richard (who won 11 Stanley cups)and former Sabres captain and head coach Flyod Smith. After the Ceremony it was time to play hockey. But the question was were the teams ready to play.One team was and that team is called the Montreal Canadiens.
The Canadiens got off to a great start by controlling the play in the offensive zone but Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres was their to keep the game score-less with save after save.Now lets go to the second. Just 2 minutes into the second the Habs would get on the board with a goal from Picard (which was a bad goal due to the fact that the shot was going wide but it hit off a Sabres defenseman and into the net) to make it 1-0.
At the other end Carey Price (who made a total of 22 saves) was great in this one as he was their to make the big saves that the Habs needed. The Canadiens would reward Price by scoring their first powerplay goal of the season on a rolling puck that was shot by Gorges and looked like a curve ball in the final minute of the second period. Miller had no chance what so ever on that one.
Then in the third, Buffalo seemed to have finally woken up by taking shot after shot and finally Derek Roy put it up and over the glove of Price to cut the lead to 1. Note: That goal was the Sabres first goal in 108 minutes. But that's all they would get in this game as the Canadiens would go on to win 2-1 is your final."We felt good about our lead, but we knew they were going to come out hard," said Picard, who scored a goal for the first time since Dec. 18, 2009, at New Jersey.
"We actually got a couple chances early in the third, then they had theirs. After that, we just shut our blue-line, and they couldn't get in."With this loss by Buffalo they have now lost 4 straight games and they are all home losses."We had a couple of bad bounces and it seems like we've had bad bounces fall on us," Roy said. "We're getting outworked at home and that's unacceptable."
Even though the Canadiens may have won this game Price still hasn't got a Shutout. The last time he got a Shuttout was November 9th 2008. You want to know why he hasn't got a shuttout in so long? It's because of sloppy defense. For example, the Habs played well last night but one sloppy defensive play lead to a goal.
The Habs will have to improve on there defense if they are going to see Price get a shuttout. But Honestly, this game they just had one densive slip up. In the game against Tampa they had 5 or 6 and Price only let in 2 goals on those plays. So they are improving. I think you will see Price get a few shuttouts this year if they keep improving that's the key.The Canadiens next game is tonight against the Senators on CBC-M and RDS.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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