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Quick recap: Habs have a few chances early and do absolutely nothing, and then Perry and Getzlaf take over and the Ducks get 3 goals as the Habs have some shoddy D and Price just gives it one of those "fuck me" performances as opposed to the "fuck you" ones where he flashes his glove and explodes laterally like he's a kung fu master. Lubo Visnovsky scores a ridiculous goal where he kicks the puck in the air to himself and then goes from his own blue line, beats Gomez and Pouliot to the slot and Hamrlik screens Price as he beats him blocker side.
Anyways, 3-0 after 1, Halak starts the 2nd, and then Getzlaf gives the puck away, leading to a Plekanec breakaway: 3-1. Not much else happens for a while, the Ducks don't do a lot of pressing (though the D is still active, they do have Nieds and Lubo now which is kind of scary). A bad giveaway by the Ducks with just under 2 to play and Moore sets up Gionta, who goes high glove on Hiller (Plexo went high blocker, point being go high in close). Then with Halak pulled, Perry slashes Markov on the wrist, causing a turnover but Perry misses the net from just outside the blue line. Markov collects his glove and with 10 seconds left, Pouliot passes him the puck in the slot and he goes high glove as well and ties it up. After the play, Perry, being a douchebag, punches Markov in the face and a meleé ensues. For some odd reason, the refs don't give the Habs a PP and eventually nothing happens in OT.
Shootout: Perry just misses (sneaks through Halak but trickles just wide), Markov misses, Getzlaf trickles it just under Halak's pad, Gomez is stopped by a glove save, Selanne misses way high, and then Gionta is stopped as Hiller squeezes his blocker arm to his body... still keeps sliding backwards, opens his arm up and the puck falls in. The puck never stopped moving (because Hiller never stopped moving towards the net), so the goal stands. Bizarre. Then James Wisnieski (!) dekes himself out, followed by Tomas Plekanec, who has one shootout goal in his career in like 15 tries, goes high glove for the win.
Total dick move by Carlyle not to use Saku and see if he can beat Halak with his patented forehand deke. Or fake that and shoot it since Halak would be expecting the deke. I mean, James Wisneiwski? Koivu is like a 30-35% career shootout performer (or at least was in Montreal).
_________________ Injustice? Cobain died and Eddy Fucking Vedder lived to haunt us with his shitty fucking voice, trite lyrics and his Eddy Vedderness.  - Ancient Chinese Proverb
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