Habs Need Their Away-Game Mentality

By Ethan Rabidoux

The Montreal Canadiens are back in action tomorrow night.

Les Habitants currently lead Boston 2-1 in the quarter finals. It should be 3-0.

Tuesday’s performance was absolutely pitiful until the middle of the third period. Montreal fought like hell in Boston then came home and flopped. It was like they were just watching the Bruins do their thing.

In the last ten or fifteen minutes, the Habs finally stepped it up and peppered the Bruins but couldn’t quite seal the deal. Had they played like that for the entire game, the results would have been different.

I never thought I’d agree with Don Cherry on hockey but he said Tuesday night during Coach’s Corner that the Montreal Canadiens snap to attention when they’re on the road then slack off in front of a home crowd.

He said that in the context of Montreal’s mediocre performance in the first two periods of Game Three and I think he’s on to something.

Game Four is tomorrow night in Montreal. We’ll see if the Habs bring their away-game mentality to the Bell Centre and bury the Boston Creams.

On a completely different note, I stopped watching last night’s Blue Jays game in the 8th inning thinking it was going nowhere and Toronto was going to lose…

Boy was I wrong!

I still don’t think Toronto earns a Wild Card Spot this year. I think all the pieces are there for the Blue Jays to be contenders in two seasons but they still need some maturity before visions of the post season can dance in the heads of Jays fans.

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