Bruins ready to battle with rival Habs

by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 5, 2009 10:30 AM EST in Game Previews

The Bruins will host the Montreal Canadiens tonight at TD Garden for the first of six meeting this season. The B's enter tonight's game just one one point back in the standings from the visiting Habs. Montreal has 14 points in 15 games, while the Bruins have earned 13 points in one less game.

Know Your Enemy

Montreal Canadiens (7-8-0)

Head Coach: Jacques Martin

Leading Goal Scorer:

	G	A	P	+/-	PIM
2009 - Mike Cammalleri	7	7	14	6	10

Goaltending:

	GP	MIN	W	L	T	EGA	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
2009 - Carey Price	9	495	2	6			30	3.64	256	226	.883	0

	GP	MIN	W	L	T	EGA	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
2009 - Jaroslav Halak	8	421	5	2			20	2.85	187	167	.893	0

Key Heckling Targets & Strategy:

Carey Price "CAAAAAAAAREY!"

Hal Gill Be creative. I'm sure you have plenty of ammo for "The Tower of Turnover"

Brian Gionta How he isn't tall enough to ride the roller coaster and how much BC sucks

Injury Report

Boston Bruins Injuries

Questionable

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Byron Bitz	groin	11/04/2009

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Milan Lucic	fingers	10/17/2009
Marc Savard	foot	10/21/2009

Montreal Canadiens Injuries

Questionable

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Georges Laraque	back	11/04/2009

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Ryan O`Byrne	knee	10/04/2009
Andrei Markov	ankle	10/02/2009

Notes:

- The Bruins have not scored a power play goal in 5 games and now have the worst power play in the NHL with a 11.5% success rate.

- Montreal has also struggled with special teams play this season. The are 24th in penalty-killing (75.8%) and 25th on the power play (14.3%).

- Mark Recchi needs 1 assist to reach 900 for his career

- Montreal has called up forwards Tom Pyatt and Ryan White from the Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL).

- Former Montreal Canadien Steve Begin will play the Habs for the first time in a black and gold sweater.

- The game starts at 7:00 and can be seen on NESN. The open thread start at 6:30.

- For more on the Habs and how how they built an illegitimate dynasty by taking advantage of an unfair player allocation system, check out Habs Eyes On The Prize

Today's Obligatory Embarrassing Habs Fan YouTube Video

There has to be some sort of animal cruelty laws against this sort of thing.

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shit

Kerjci is out with the flu, apparently.

by delta on Nov 5, 2009 10:53 AM EST reply actions

....even worse

aaaaaaand its the dreaded swine flu….

http://www.nesn.com/2009/11/david-krejci-has-h1n1-flu.html

i hope he’s alright

by delta on Nov 5, 2009 10:57 AM EST reply actions

He’ll be fine, but we could use him tonight.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 5, 2009 11:02 AM EST up reply actions

Hal Gill left practice a couple days ago with a foot injury and won’t be playing tonight – he’s out 2-3 weeks.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 5, 2009 11:04 AM EST reply actions

Pansy. He could still play – he can’t possibly skate any slower, even with a broken foot.

by Arenacale on Nov 5, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions

Eh, maybe the habs are just using this as an excuse to keep him down?

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 5, 2009 2:20 PM EST up reply actions

Probably scared to face Chara as he beat the bag outta him 5-6 years ago

by Ljcav7788 on Nov 5, 2009 4:21 PM EST up reply actions

LET'S GO BRUINS

CLAP
CLAP
CLAPCLAPCLAP

Goddamn, 3k tickets still available, this is going to be pathetic.

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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Nov 5, 2009 4:15 PM EST reply actions

How do you know about ticket availability? Maybe if they didnt jack up prices or a thousand of them make it on to stub hub, that wouldnt happen.

by SMF360 on Nov 5, 2009 6:22 PM EST up reply actions

I don’t know about you but I would rather pay up for a game when the entire team is healthy and playing well. Ticket sales at this point I’m sure are hurting not just because of pricing but also knowing some big names will not be suiting up.

by Ljcav7788 on Nov 5, 2009 6:39 PM EST up reply actions