What so surprising?

Are you surprised or even shocked by how the Habs managed to own the Bruins so far. Well you should not and I will explain why bellow.


No matter what all the experts say the season do matter when predicting a match-up. Especially if both teams played each other 6 times. Guess what the Habs last season split their series against the Caps and pushed them out in 7 during the playoff. Many so call experts took the Habs two lost game against the Bruins and made their pick on them instead of discarding those two game as being way too anomalous to really matter. Let face it the Habs just did not show up for these two games and it reflected in the scoring. Seriously a 7-0 and 8-6 game for two team that does not score much it so out of range that when looking for trend both game should be discarded in favor of the four game the Habs did win against the Bruins this season. Four low scoring game and four win for the Habs. When Montreal showed up they won and teams usually show up in the playoff. Those who don't get an early exit in the first round.


The special team should have been a dead giveaway, Montreal is one of the only three teams in the league to be top 10 in both PP and PK, Vancouver and Tampa are the other two. Not a bad club to be part of and on the other side the Bruins had atrocious power play all year long. Both team had a very similar season their ranking could have easily been reversed. The Habs are picking up pretty much where they left off after eliminating the Penguins in last year and folding against the Flyers. A team that went this far did not do it in a fluke! One round maybe but not two,


What surprising is that they got Price doing it instead of Halak. Have you ever see a team getting top notch goalkeeping in two season in a row from two different goaltender? And how much of this is due to a defensive system build to take full advantage of this mana from heaven? The Bruins were bad mind you but the Habs made them look worse than they were. The Habs showed up the Bruins have yet to do so, if they don't soon and that a big IF this round will be short.