Habs Appear To Enjoy Overtime-Habs 3, Isles 2

The Montreal Canadiens continued to keep fans on the edge of their seat as they pulled off another victory in OT, this time against the New York Islanders 3-2. Roman Hamrlik capped off a great rush by Tomas Plekanec to score the winner, while Jaroslav Spacek and Travis Moen also scored. The Canadiens seemed to be in penalty trouble all night thanks to some stupidity and some questionable officiating. The Islanders scored both of their goals on the PP, going 2 for 7, while the Habs could only muster 2 PP's, with one of those lasting only 22 seconds. The Isles tieing goal in the 3rd came after it appeared Mark Streit had high sticked the puck down in the neutral zone, but it went uncalled and eventually led to a goal. Jaroslav Halak was sharp in net, making 29 saves while Marty Biron turned aside 28 shots. The Islanders made some adjustments from Thursday's game and it paid off as they played much better in their own zone. Some other thoughts from another exciting game:

>The muckers continue to play great. Lats, Moen, Metro and Chips all stood out tonight....in a good way. Moen had an assist along with his goal, while Metro fought through the flu bug and had 2 more assists.

>Pleks is having a great year. Looks like the Pleks of old.

>The defence as a whole was pretty good, but Gorges and Spacek both made mistakes that led to Isles goals. Bergeron had a very good game, moving the puck well and breaking up two 2 on 1's.

>The Canadiens had 3 breakaways/partial breakaways but couldn't convert. If they could have either stayed out of the box or got a few more PP's the score might have been different.

The streak has now been extended to 4. Not a perfect game by any means, but 2 points nonetheless. Halak continues to win between the pipes, will be interesting to see who gets the call against the Pens on Wednesday. The Silver Wolf Whiskey Hab of the Game tonight goes to another player who seems to have regained his form from a couple of years ago. Roman Hamrlik not only scored the winner, but was again a rock in his own end. Consideration was also given to Moen and Halak.