Habs vs. Penguins

Penguins will be a lot tougher then Washington, but if the Habs can keep it together this Cinderella story might continue!

GO HABS GO!

Interesting... I have never bet on sports before but maybe I will try it this time as


I BELIEVE!!!

would love to see another game 7!

Pens in 5.

I go with 6. Halak has proven he can steal some games.

MTL in 6.... nuff said ;-)

i'll take that pens action

going to be fun all over again

what a series...I think the Pens are going to be a whole lot tougher than the Caps for Montreal. Fleury is a better goaltender and I don't know that Halak can keep up this kind of pace...I say Pens in 6.

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Pens in 6. Halak is hot right now, but the pens have a goal tender who knows what it takes to win the cup and they have enough grinders to get out there and do the dirty work when Sid and Malkin are on the bench.

Caps played like a bunch of Chiefs and no Indians so they beat themselves. Most of those shots on Halak were ones my grandmother would've caught in her bare hands. Not that he didn't make some spectacular saves at times, I will give him that, but at a certain point the Caps were just playing catch instead of trying to pass the puck to set up anything going backdoor or anything like that.

Pens play like a team. They exult in the greater good of winning as a team instead of losing as hotshots that got cold-cocked like the Caps, which was a classic case of over-confidence being rightly deflated.

Distinct lack of chocolate biscuits in this thread shows how much I know about sport.

A few things about the Habs...

People say they're a so-so team riding on their hot goaltender's hot streak. Not exactly true. In fact they are the leading team for blocked shots so far in these playoffs with a whopping 180 so far, far more than any other team. They have had a very effective penalty kill as well, and in instances where the Caps lapsed in some way or otherwise opened the door even a crack the habs almost always took advantage of it. Witness Moore's goal where he was able to steal the puck from Green and almost immediately popped it by Varlamov.

Pens may very well prove to be the tougher team for Montreal to face in these playoffs but by the numbers put up during the course of the regular season the CAPS are by far the stronger team. 121 points vs the Pens who finished with 101, a full 10 games behind Washington.

But that's by the numbers. Actual play in round 2 will show who has the chops and who doesn't. I just hope Montreal brings and maintains their A game for this series because if they don't it's going to be a short one.

My hockey sense says Pens in 6, but my heart and sense of rooting for the underdog tells me to go with Habs in 7.