All Entries Tagged With: "Roman Hamrlik"
Let’s Give Credit Where It’s Due: Washington Deserved To Win The Series
It was their 196th game in the past eighteen months. Their power-play was once again unproductive, scoring at only a 14% (3-for-23) clip. They’d lost three out of the four playoff games on home ice. The unproven opposing goaltender posted an otherworldly (for a rookie) 2.00 goals against average. Yet, through all that, the Boston [...]
Joel Ward The Hero As Caps Win Game Seven, Eliminate Defending Champion Bruins
BOSTON, Ma– They had been here before. They knew how to handle this situation. They had the experience. They had the talent. They had home-ice advantage. It simply wasn’t enough. For the first time in four seasons, the Boston Bruins were unable to advance past the first round of the playoffs, becoming the second straight [...]
Brouwer’s Late Tally Pushes Boston To The Brink Of Elimination
BOSTON, MA– The Boston Bruins will be up against the ultimate test of character in the most dire of situations on Sunday afternoon. Facing the threat of elimination after a 4-3 defeat in Saturday’s game five, they’ve run out of room for mistakes. Troy Brouwer’s tie-breaking second tally of the series came at the most [...]
Caps Even Series As Holtby, Semin Lead Washington To 2-1 Game 4 Victory
WASHINGTON, DC– In hockey, perhaps the scariest proposition for any team – no matter how strong – going into the postseason is the possibility of running into a hot goaltender. Much to the chagrin of Black and Gold supporters hoping for the chance to seal the series on Saturday, the B’s were stopped cold in [...]
Chara’s Late Game Tally Completes Boston’s Workmanlike Game 3 Victory In Washington
WASHINGTON, DC– “The more we play each other, the more we hate each other.” – Brad Marchand The above quote, courtesy of the Bruins’ resident agitator and Boston fan favorite, Brad Marchand just about perfectly sums up Monday’s game three between the B’s and Capitals. The animosity between these two Eastern Conference foes had reached [...]
Holtby, Backstrom Lead Caps Past Bruins In Double OT, Even Series 1-1
BOSTON– After participating in a whopping 190 games since the start of the 2010-’11 season, the Boston Bruins were undoubtedly hoping for a quick and easy first round series as they began their first Stanley Cup championship defense since 1973. Unfortunately for the B’s, that dream seems to have gone the way of the dinosaurs. [...]
Chris Kelly’s OT Blast Lifts Bruins To 1-0 Game One Victory
BOSTON– A mere ten months after capturing the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship in nearly four decades, the Boston Bruins opened up their title defense with a bang on Thursday by defeating the seventh seeded Washington Capitals 1-0 in overtime. Things got off to a hot start for the Black and Gold as they created [...]
Why The Boston Bruins Will Beat The Capitals In Six Games
It’s that time of year again. No more five-minute, four-on-four overtimes. No more shootouts. No more three-point games. No more sleeping. Prepare for long nights of thrilling hockey, folks, as sixteen teams prepare to compete for the most coveted prize in sports: the Stanley Cup. After raising the franchise’s sixth championship banner to the rafters [...]
Canadiens officially re-sign Hal Gill to mentor P.K. Subban
Montreal Canadiens General Manager Pierre Gauthier announced earlier today the signing of defenceman Hal Gill for the 2011-12 season. Gill will make $2,25M next season, the same salary he made in the past two years. “Hall Gill has played a key role since he joined our team two years ago. He brings leadership and determination [...]
Bruins win tight series, Game 7 vs. Habs 4-3 on Horton’s OT winner
After the Bruins took an early two-goal lead in game 7 five minutes into the deciding contest, with goals from Johnny Boychuk and Mark Recchi, everyone thought the Canadiens would let go and that it was going to be over early for the visitors. But the Canadiens took advantage of special teams with a power [...]
Canadiens take commanding 2-0 series lead against hapless Bruins
Well, who would have thought the Montreal Canadiens, the sixth-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, would take a commanding 2-0 series lead against their division rivals and third-seeded team, the Boston Bruins, beating the Big Bad Bruins 2-0 and 3-1 in back-to-back road wins. The Canadiens, under head coach Jacques Martin, have played two perfect [...]
Montreal Canadiens set to face division rivals Boston Bruins
It was written in the sky; the Montreal Canadiens will face the Boston Bruins in the playoffs for the 33rd time in NHL history, and for the fifth time in the first round since 2002. The Canadiens currently have a 24-8 all-time playoff series record against the Bruins, but Boston swept the series the last [...]
After .500 trip, Canadiens prepare for very important week
Following the Chara-Pacioretty incident that made the news everywhere in North America and even in Europe, the Canadiens took the road to face the St. Louis Blues and former Hab netminder Jaroslav Halak on Thursday, and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Marc-Andre Fleury on Saturday. After taking a 1-0 lead in the 1st period on Jeff [...]
Canadiens lose Wisniewski for four weeks with factured cheekbon***updated***
The misfortunes of the Montreal Canadiens won’t go away. According to RDS’ Renaud Lavoie, the team has learned today that rearguard James Wisniewski will be out of action with one or multiple fractures to his left cheekbone sustained during yesterday’s contest against the Edmonton Oilers. Midway in the first period Wisniewski was brutally cut by [...]
Habs, Carey Price blank Leafs 3-0, end three-game skid
Despite battling a rash of injuries, the Canadiens played a great all-around game to defeat the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 at Bell Centre on Saturday night. Without the services of Michael Cammalleri, Mathieu Darche, Hal Gill, Josh Gorges and Andrei Markov, and coming off three consecutive losses to the hands of the Devils, the [...]
Wizniewski’s wizardry helps Canadiens earn 3 of 4 points; Maxim Lapierre traded to Ducks
After a disappoint 4-1 loss in Tampa Bay on Thursday, the Canadiens managed to come from a 2-0 deficit against the Florida Panthers on New Year’s Eve and win 3-2 thanks to a stellar performance from newcomer James Wisnieski. The wizard scored the game-winner in overtime and added a power play goal and an assist [...]
Canadiens acquire James Wisniewski from Islanders, slip 3-0 against the Capitals
The Montreal Canadiens have addressed their lack of depth on defense by acquiring rearguard James Wisniewski from the New York Islanders in exchange for a compensatory second round pick in 2011 and a conditional fifth round pick in 2012. Wisniewski, 26, was top Islanders’ scoring leader with 3 goals and 18 assists for 21 points [...]
Habs beat Senators 4-1, Gomez out with lower-body injury and Subban suffers in silence
Yesterday, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1 thanks to three third-period goals to win their third consecutive game. The Habs got tallies from Brian Gionta, Michael Cammalleri, Roman Hamrlik and Jeff Halpern to win their 18th game of the season. Nick Foligno, on the power play, was the lone goal-scorer for Ottawa. With [...]
Habs capture 3 points out 4 in back to back games
After dropping a 3-1 lead to finally lose 4-3 in overtime to the hands of the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday at Bell Centre, the Montreal Canadiens scored two quick goals yesterday in New Jersey en route to a 5-1 win against the Devils. On Wednesday, Dustin Penner took advantage of a bad play by PK [...]
Price, Canadiens blank Canucks 2-0 at Bell Centre
Carey Price made 35 saves for his second shutout of the year and the Canadiens ended Vancouver’s six-game winning streak with a 2-0 win over the Canucks yesterday. Defensemen Andrei Markov and Roman Hamrlik both scored for Montreal on Roberto Luongo who stopped 27 of the 29 shots he faced. The Canadiens finally managed to [...]
