Canadiens Burn Maple Leafs In Overtime

On a night when the greatest hockey player in history, Mario Lemieux, was in attendance the Montreal Canadiens roster was allowed to stay up past their bed times as they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 in overtime.

Montreal's favorite whipping girl boy Carey Price had an outstanding game (at least for fantasy hockey purposes), stopping 43 of 46 shots in the win. If you recall, the last time we saw Carey Price in a meaningful game the Montreal crowd were being assholes:





"Carey stood on his head," forward Mike Cammalleri said. "I just talked to him and said, 'We've got to be better for you and we will.' The truth is that we expect him to do that from time to time because that's how good he is.

"He won us the game."

The Canadiens, for the most part, were outplayed and outshot by the Maple Leafs. Each team had two power play goals. Brian Gionta opened the scoring in the first period with a power play goal, with feeds from Mike Cammalleri and Tomas Plekanec. Overtime hero Josh Gorges assisted on Glen Metropolit's power play goal in the third to time the game.

Matt Stajan scored both power play goals for the Maple Leafs, one in each of the second and third periods.

However, a former Canadien perhaps had the biggest impact on the game. Famous for being a turtle and world class wuss, Mike HomoKomisarek was in the box for both of Montreal's power play goals. The Maple Leafs were flying when this idiot took an elbowing penalty, his fifth minor of the night to go with his fighting major... which for Komisarek means throwing a punch from behind then covering his head and hitting the ice when the opponent turns around. Montreal beat Toskala on the ensuing powerplay. He also received a double high-sticking penalty in the first period after busting open the overpaid Scott Gomez.

The game also featured three fights and lot of after whistle shananagins (we'll feature each bout later today in Northeast Fight Club).

The two teams continue their rivalry on Halloween.

And on a site note.... Toronto Maple Leafs fans are fast. Check on the guy wearing a Kessel jersey at the end of this video... I bet that guy still has both his balls though.