No one is talking about it because that routine crosscheck gets ignored 99% of the time. Heck, Pacioretty on the very first play of the game gave an even bigger one to Hedman in the offensive zone after the whistle and he didn't get a penalty for it.
Some of you need to get your head of your *****. Yea, he took a penalty and unfortunately it costs us a goal. But he's defending the front of the net and I think it's pretty clear from the way ALL our Dmen have been playing that they need to protect the front of Price. So when an aggressive player like Callahan that rushes the net for the sole purpose of getting in Price's face, hell ya, slash or crosscheck him. I don't care if it costs you a penalty. You want to crash towards Price, expect it to be painful. No problem with that penalty.
In Montreal people want both. They want the team to protect Price, they want the players to be aggressive and hit opponents, but wait, you have to do all this and be completely disciplined too. It doesn't work that way. Sometimes you'll have to accept that this extra crosscheck or slash or punch is going to get you on the PK. You live with it if that's how you want your team to play.
Anyways, even if you want to scream bloody murder for that penalty. Fine. As far as I know, it's still just 1-1 right? Which is a pretty good improvement compared to being down a goal most of the time. We also dominated TB during ES, and despite allowing that goal on the PK, we had a bunch of chances shorthanded. So what exactly happens in the locker for them to be flat in the 2nd period?? Heck, in the first 5 min of the 2nd period, they even got 2 PPs!
But yes, all of this is just smokescreen. The real issue that people should discuss is...OMG That one Subban penalty!!!!
Come on man. Talking about one single 2 min event instead of what happened in the 58 other minutes is rather foolish.
The habs weren't undisciplined. That's a crap excuse that just avoids the real issues.
Our lack of production from the top 6 and the horrendous PP. Not to mention, the PK was absolutely terrible and our coach seemingly did nothing to adjust it (surprise surprise).
Most of the penalties were questionable calls for a PO game. Every single penalty given yesterday to the Habs would go uncalled in other games.
The refs picked and chose when to give a penalty. Was completely random and stupid, unless you want to argue that TB played a completely clean game from halfway through the game?..Typical NHL officiating, except yesterday they decided to call more on the Habs. Just because the refs decided to make these calls on the Habs doesn't mean they were any more or less disciplined than they usually are.
I completely disagree with this stupid cop out of an excuse that the Habs were undisciplined. They weren't. It has zero to do with this loss.
Nothing to do with coaching? Can you tell me for a fact that the coach didn't say ''Protect the front of the net and Price at all cost''??
For the record, I'm not saying he did say it, but I'm not the one claiming to know it 100% had nothing to do with coaching.
If you want your players to protect the goalie, then you can't whine about them being undisciplined after when they do just that.
