Much has been said about last Saturday's loss to the Toronto Maple Laffs, but what everyone seems to forget is to put it in recent historical context: the Canadiens just about never win against Toronto when the game is played on Saturday nights, in front of a national audience on Hockey Night In Canada, whereas the Leafs always give it their all to show the rest of the country that they can, indeed, win a game per week. Habs players couldn't care less - and that's fine. Losing a game per week isn't all bad.
The trouble is when you add that sure-fire loss to a crappy team to a stretch of bad games and sour defeats. A week in the Mountains should do good. If not, well...
Giguère hasn't played in two weeks, he'll surely be available, add Lecavalier and Bouwmeester - and you can give away anyone in: Kovalev, A. Kostitsyn, S. Kostitsyn, Plekanec, Bégin, Gorges, Higgins, Stewart, Chipchura, kids in Hamilton, one or two of Price, Halak and Denis, and draft picks. Surely someone's worth picking up in there.
And then we'll have 2 months to get these boys to gel, make nice and learn to win.
Winning, however, will not start tonight. Choose the Flames.
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