Bring the Noise

So i'm lying on my couch at home with a 38.5C fever... things I've missed:

-joel bouchard's eyebrows

-joel bouchard's purple shirt

-pierre houde's classic cliché one liners

-benoit brunet's "oyoyoyoyoyoy's"

ok back to serious stuff. I'm liking a lot of things... but as always a lot of things to work on. definitely dirty goals (except for one). a goal's a goal's a goal... but wow this was one heck of a scrappy encounter thus far. Guys are still trying to find their season form...no worries, those rusty wheels will be well oiled soon.

I'm really like what i see out of eller. really nice forecheck, throwing the body around, and making clean, crisp passes and setting up plays. price has been decent. a few good saves though he was definitely weak on the first and third goals. (mostly on the first).

MacArthur has been strong for the leafs... but the key player for the evening was definitely JS Giguere.... what amazing saves left right and center. really.... the leafs definitely upped their value with this guy.

Side note: ok so our PK has gotten much better than the pre-season, something that is quite expected (though note that the leafs did NOT have the most coherent PP).... as i mentioned the passes were a little all over the place. That being said: I will say one more thing time and time again: UGH PENALTIES!!!!!!!!!! Stupid delay-of-game, slashing, hooking.... the list goes on. too many penalties will come back and bite you. you can only keep a 1.00 PK for so long. so PLEASE please PLEASE pretty please habs, work on not getting as many penalties. you lose all your momentum and it puts you on your heels.

thanks, love, sophie.

oh ya, one more thing.... we HAVE to work on our discipline and checking along the boards. Sometimes on the 5-on-5 we look like we're on the PK in our own zone. whaaaa? that shouldn't happen. the leafs were free to cycle the puck without much attack from the habs along the periphery. Meanwhile we had a very difficult time doing the same in the offensive zone.

9 minutes left in the game--i'm *HOPING* they'll find a way to bury that 3rd goal.

PPS: damn refs missed SO many penalties!!!! eller was just hooked on a semi-breakaway. ugh.