Lol, Lucic is going to destroy the Canadien players tonight :P

I don't think there'll be any streets left in Montreal after tonight.

Lucic has been pretty much a non factor since after the first game, this team has led to their own downfall. Better luck next year boys, this team is going to have quite a different look - hopefully for the better.

I'm thinking Komisarek is lucky that he fell down, or Lucic would have destroyed him again. He broke his shoulder during the fight last time.......who knows what he would have done this time?

Carey Price can't wait till he's a UFA/traded/tendered an offer while he's an RFA if today is anything to go by.

Price has been average all year. He's still young, but I think Montreal needs to get a fairly big goalie in the off season, take some pressure off. Halak is too good for the minors though, might have to trade him.

Lucic seemed kind of off in game 4. Lots of little misplays and receiving more hits then giving. Wonder if he'll be paired against Avery when they play the Rangers.

Lucic did miss Game 3, and team play from both teams have changed, so he still needs to get used to it since the strats from Game 1 and 2 seem different

Yea, you're probably right.

There's not many UFA goalies this summer, at least not any big ones. There's Khabibulin, but that's about it. They can get a decent stop gap goalie, like Fernandez/Clemmensen/Biron/Gerber, but none of those are goalies I would be comfortable with. If Florida re-signs Anderson, Vokun will be available, who I like. Halak would net a decent pick or prospect, he'd be a good backup goalie for someone.

Lucic even if he didn't manage to get points in this series, would be effective just with the fact that he has Bob Gainey obsessed with him, to the point where Laraque is on the top line, with Koivu/Kovalev against Lucic. Kovalev and Koivu weren't exactly lighting it up this series.......having Laraque lumbering around trying to get Lucic to fight him doesn't help matters.

Yea, I don't think a big #1 goalie is in order, mostly someone to share the duties with Price.

Well Laraque hasn't been on the top line since Game 2, but I agree, he is a brutal skater. Kovalev and Koivu haven't been great, but Montreal's second line has been terrible for a while now, especially that Tanguay somehow got injured and missed game 3 + 4, put Kostistyn onto the 1st line, meaning they loss a main part of the 2nd line(who has still been below normal though). The third line used to step up near the end of the season, but they have been non-existant as well.

I haven't been overly impressed with any player, it's been a poor effort all around. In a contract season you would think most of the guys would want to put up career numbers to get a big contract, but most have been hurting themselves more then anything. This year has been one of the worst I can remember, so much controversy and so many problems. Part me of glad it's done and I can stop getting my hopes up on this group, and look forward to next year.

At the beginning of the season everything was going well: Markov was showing that he was a number 1 defenseman, Komisarek was solid (till his shoulder was broken), Koivu/Tanguay/Kovalev were great, Carey Price was being compared to Patrick Roy. This Centennial year seemed like it was going to be something straight out of a storybook.

Since about the Christmas break, everything started going downhill. The mafia thing didn't help matters either. The book is about to close on this edition of the Montreal Canadiens.......next year things will look very different. New owners, new players, a new coach, and maybe even a new GM.

While I was writing this, Lucic drew a 5 minute penalty, lol.