Laval with an effective power play at the end of the period. Mailloux showed his offensive vision on the first power play unit. Kidney, who was one of the better Rocket players in the first period, almost scored on a great pass by Mailloux. Roy, who was largely invisible in the first period, made a couple of clever passes late in the power play. In another thread, where posters were listing their thoughts about Montreal's top prospects, I was asked why I omitted Roy in my top ten. His performance in the first period provides a clear reason why: he's just too slow. Roy has elite hand skills and offensive vision, but if he looks a step behind in the AHL, you have to question how he will perform when competing against bigger, faster and more skilled players in the NHL. Maybe it was just a bad period. Maybe not.