Did the Habs play amazing? No. But the score is deceiving. They played a decent game, particularly offensively, with some bad defensive holes (ie, penalty kill, taking incredibly stupid penalties). Halak and Price were bad and Leighton was great. Otherwise, I thought the game was even until the end when all the energy kind of got sapped out. Still, happy this happened in game 1 and not anywhere else in the series. They and Halak can bounce back from this. And before people start getting automatically depressed, declaring everything about the Habs' game awful and saying that Halak is going to choke (as many people already are), see if this sounds familiar:
-Halak has a bad game and is replaced by Price.
-The penalty kill is awful
-Montreal gets six goals scored on them
-Despite all this, Montreal holds the lead in shots and the game is generally even
Ya, so that was game 1 against the Penguins. The moral: It's just one game and a lot can happen after a bad game 1. Granted they did score 3 goals that game, but I honestly do think that Leighton played a fantastic game tonight- he made some extremely hard saves. Anyway, kudos to the Flyers, and we'll see what happens in Game 2.
