This is God punishing me for losing the faith. How could I count out the only good story line in the Eastern Conference Playoffs. The Habs beat the Pens tonight to force a game seven by a margin of 4-3. Maxime Lapierre came up big again with a clutch goal late in the third to make it 4-2, yet Billy Guerin made it 4-3 with less than two minutes left by deflecting a hard slap shot from Sergei Gonchar. Nevertheless, Jaroslav Halak and the Canadiens pulled out the win, with goals from Cammalleri, Lapierre, and Spacek (first game back in nine games). Staal skated, and hit a post or cross bar three times in his first game since severing a tendon in game one of the series.
In other news, turns out I was wrong (kind of) about the return of Staal. I was correct, because Crosby scored his first goal of the series, and I accredited Staal with allowing Crosby to play offense. However, I wasn't correct about them losing (who knew that Marc-Andre Fleury was so inconsistent?...Oh wait, every single person who's ever watched him play a hockey game, my bad). The Penguins are going to be hard pressed to win game seven. Though they're at home, the Habs go into this game in the better position. The Canadiens aren't the defending champs, and the Canadiens aren't going to potentially lose to an eighth seed in the second round. This is the Penguins' to lose, and thus the Canadiens' to win.
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