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Not going to bother posting the game summaries for the last three games because I’m behind enough as it is, but briefly…

Montreal 5-4 Calgary: It was about time we had a fun game.  Calgary’s one of those teams that’s generally exciting to watch, and we were more than up to the task so it made for two periods of exciting hockey and one period of cautious “protect the lead” hockey, but it all worked out and we won against a struggling team.  Calgary finally did some stuff on the PP here which hurt our nearly flawless PK%, but it all worked out in the end.

Chicago 2-1 Montreal: Worst game of the year so far on two fronts; our play and the game as a whole.  Chicago will do better than last year but I’m not convinced that they’ll make the playoffs.  We played down to their level (or were tired from the Calgary game, take your pick) and the result was this snoozefest.  Aebischer was the only one who could take some credit away from this one; it just wasn’t pretty.

Montreal 8-5 Colorado: The perfect way for Theo to return to Montreal, hm?   I thought for sure that we were done for after that horrid first period but things picked up and we improved as the game went on.  Souray is just incredible so far; I think they made some adjustments to his bionic wrist and they’ve certainly worked out for him.  As for Koivu…  he’s Saku Koivu.  He’s the heart of this team and he’s been just fine, bad eye or no bad eye.  Maybe we ran up the score just a *tad*, but we haven’t scored 8 in a game since a few years ago against Pittsburgh.  We needed this to give us a big confidence boost, and to give Colorado some more worries.  Extremely fun game to watch, but the Calgary game might have been just a tad better play-wise.  This was just more satisfying.

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