Game Thread: Game 6 of 7 Game Road Trip Takes Habs To St. Petersburg

[Habs n Jays Fan]

Montreal Canadiens(19-19-3) at Tampa Bay Lightning(15-15-9)

All Time Series: 30-25-6-1 172 GF 150 GA

Vitals:

Montreal: 103 GF(T-20th), 112 GA(T-17th), 10-10-1 Road, 25.0% PP(1st), 84.2% PK(8th), Habs are 7-7-1 in December

Tampa Bay: 98 GF(T-25th), 112 GA(T-17th), 9-5-4 Home, 17.8% PP(T-16th), 79.8% PK(18th), Bolts are 3-3-0 at Home in December

Previous Meetings:
Nov. 7th- TB- 3-1 L

Probable Goalies:

Carey Price: 9-13-3, 2.74 GAA, .912 SV%
Career vs TB: 5 GP, 2-2-1, 2.52 GAA, .889 SV%
Last Game vs TB: 1 GS, 59 Min, 0-1-0, 3.05 GAA, .857 SV%

Antero Niittymaki: 7-5-4, 2.46 GAA, .919 SV%
Career vs Mtl: 11 GP, 2-8-1, 3.29 GAA, .891 SV%
Last Game vs Mtl: 1 GS, 60 Min, 1-0-0, 1.00 GAA, .973 SV%

Players To Watch:

Montreal- Andrei Markov
Season- 6 GP, 3 G, 4 A, 7 Pts, +3, 6 PIM
vs TB- 28 GP, 3 G, 15 A, 18 Pts, +5, 14 PIM
Streak- 3 goals, 4 assists in 5 games since ankle injury

Tampa Bay- Steve Downie
Season- 37 GP, 7 G, 9 A, 16 Pts, +4, 90 PIM
vs Mtl- 5 GP, 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, +1, 11 PIM
Streak- 4 goals, 3 assists and 40 PIM in 12 December games

Pre-Game Reports:

Montreal:
Paul Mara(swollen left hand)- Questionable
Roman Hamrlik(knee)- Questionable

Tampa Bay:
Jeff Halpern(lower body)- Out
Todd Fedoruk(lower body)- Out
Matt Walker(lower body)- Out
Paul Ranger(personal)- Questionable

[Habs n Jays Fan]

Great game by Price, he made some great saves. Cammalleri probably should have gotten a penalty on the goal when he tripped Stamkos(?) but then again, Blair Jones should have gotten one the play before for kicking Price in the shoulder.

Great Road Trip thus far, we've taken 10 of 12 Points and onto Florida tomorrow. Anything we get in that game is gravy but I'd love to see us go 2 games over .500.

[McMikel]

Vinny! The Tanguay-St. Louis-Vinny line scared the McGuirre outta me every time they touched the puck. They were a full stride faster than anything we had on the ice.

Kudos to Hal Gill for swatting Jones' crap back in his face. The contempt HG showed was great. Gomez had a real good game as well.

Oh, that guy with red pads was something as well. Made a couple of huge saves when the defence was scouting the stands for hotties to fly to Miami.

Ten points on this trip... maybe Cirque du Soleil should run for another two weeks...

[McMikel]

The angle from the back shows Stamkos was losing it before Cams stole the puck. The centre ice camera made it look like a trip, but the replay (RDS feed) showed Stamkos falling without any help.

[Habs n Jays Fan]

Yeah I noticed that too but Cammy's stick was definitely in his feet. No matter, it wasn't called and we scored, that's all that counts lol