Casa de Colin

Buffalo 5, Montreal 4 (SO)
(Novotny, Pominville, Briere, Afinogenov; Ryder, Higgins, Koivu 2)
Buffalo starts out hot at 2-0-0, and Montreal opens up at 0-0-1.

Toronto 2, Montreal 3 (SO)
(Tucker, Stajan; Souray, Johnson)
Toronto fills every column of their record and goes 1-1-1, Montreal improves to 1-0-1.

I wonder if Montreal’s the first team to start the season with two straight SO appearances.  I can’t be bothered to check last year’s records.

The games weren’t similar at all; we didn’t fall behind at all in the Buffalo game but couldn’t hold out for the win.  Buffalo’s going to be a tough team to play against this season, and they showed it.  We just weren’t ready for them and came less than 15 seconds away from a win but blew it.  The Toronto game was different in the sense that the Leafs really took it to us early on, and we had to claw our way to the tie; of course, once we got there we could have won in regulation but had to rely on luck again.  Not a fun way to start off the season at any rate.

The Koivu/Higgins/Ryder line is clearly the best on the ice right now and Kovalev/Samsonov really need to step things up.  It’s not the most active of weeks; away to Philly on Wednesday and home to Ottawa on Saturday.  I don’t know if Huet will get the start on Wednesday but if he doesn’t then he should start Saturday for sure.  He wasn’t the reason we blew the Buffalo game.

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