Habs Week in Review
The slump is over.
As the Habs head into the All Star break, they take with them the added confidence of back to back wins against Atlanta and the Sabers. Two teams which are ahead of the Habs in the standings.
The two wins, coupled with losses from various other teams put the Habs back in 2nd in their division and 4th overall.
They key to finding back their confidence may in fact have been due to head coach Guy Carbonneau benching Samsonov and Craig Rivet. Rivet, reportedly, is still trying to lick the wounds to his ego after Carbo’s benching.
While the move did not immediately make a change in the proceeding match, it did in the following. Samsonov scored one (his first in what seems like months) as well as Kovalev. Huet, regained his confidence and the Habs are now back.
The Habs will no doubt enjoy the next few days off and look to see Huet and Souray in the All Star line up this weekend.
I was very happy to see Montreal’s finest perform very well tonight in the skills competition. Souray’s slapshot at 100 was a beaut (hard to compare with the man-giant known as Zdeno Chara, and he nearly topped him) and every Montrealer’s favourite goalie certainly did himself justice too! Go habs go! Go eastern conference!