Is a Comeback Possible?

Posted by Justin on May 2, 2008 at 1:43 pm

After four games in a grueling series against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Montreal Canadiens find themselves down 3 games to 1 as they face a potentially heart breaking loss in front of 21,273 at home on Saturday. The question on everyone’s mind is, ‘Do the Canadiens have it in them to come back?’.

My love for the Habs notwithstanding, I will begin by saying that it is possible, but their is no doubt it my mind that three different factors need to happen first.

1. Price needs to have three incredible strong games with save percentages above .950. We can’t afford any flukey goals at this point, so he needs to make sure that the defense aren’t getting in his line of vision.

2. We really need our Special Teams to pick up their game to what we’ve seen all regular season. This, of course, includes the penalty kill, and more importantly the power play who has been absolutely horrible.

3. The final thing we need is to be much more aggressive around Biron, and I do mean aggressive. The goals that we’ve scored on him in the post-season have been ones where we were crashing the net, and screening him. This is the type of play we need from more than just our fourth line.

The Canadiens have done this before against Boston, and that was absolutely monumental. This series is far from over if the Habs can push for a win in Game 5, because no one wants to lose the series at home ice.