We need a week off

Tomorrow night's game against the Kings will be the final game of Markov's suspension and the Habs' last game for a week. To say things have not been going well would be an understatement. The timing is good for this vacation. The fewer games played sans Kovalev the better, and it will allow nagging injuries to Koivu, Markov and Souray to heal. It will also give Komisarek time to return.

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Last night, the Habs were playing without their top three skaters. Koivu, Kovalev and Markov typically combine to eat up over one fifth of the available icetime in a game. They were lucky to get a single loser-point.

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Poetic justice in a pop-up ad:

This happened while browsing the TSN.ca player profile for Jaromir Jagr, and I couldn't resist taking this screen shot for a pot shot.