Casa de Colin

Montreal 1, Buffalo 4
(Johnson; Novotny, Drury, Pominville, Vanek)
Montreal can’t follow up on Niinimaa’s promise and drop to 4-2-2, Buffalo just can’t seem to lose and stays perfect at 9-0-0.

At least we didn’t decide to make this Guaranteed Win night, which would have cost us a lot of money regardless of the promotion.

The first goal was brutal.  I don’t know if Huet misjudged it or if it was just the way it hit him, but geez…  it’s one that you want to have back no matter what the circumstances are.  We made it interesting in the 3rd when we were down 3-0, with Johnson getting a deflected goal for his solid efforts, but we just couldn’t do anything on the PP near the end…  Vanek getting sprung from the box with an empty net breakaway was the icing on the cake.

It was a bad loss (well, our worst of the year by default) and obviously any cockiness we had was wiped away after tonight.  The good news is that Boston’s next on Thursday, and that’s a game we have a great chance of winning.  I’m trying to figure out when Buffalo’s going to lose…  they can certainly tie Toronto’s record by beating the Islanders on Thursday, but on Saturday they’d have to play Atlanta.  Maybe they can tie it, but I can’t see them beating it.