Pacioretty's and Pateryn's Habs advance

Submitted by CalJr3000 on

A couple more Wolverine hockey alumni will be heading to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and both had a hand in tonight's Montreal win over Ottawa.  The Canadiens won the series four games to two behind outstanding Carey Price goaltending, but tonight Pateryn assisted on Brendan Gallagher's first-period goal, the game-winner, and Pacioretty sealed the deal with an empty-netter from deep in his own end with 0.03 to go.

Wolverines whose teams remain in the playoffs as of this post include:
-Andrew Cogliano (Ducks)
-Luke Glendening (Red Wings)
-Carl Hagelin (Rangers)
-Matt Hunwick (Rangers)

LET'S GO RED WINGS, plus the Habs and Rangers otherwise, and to a lesser extent, the Ducks.

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xtramelanin

April 26th, 2015 at 9:31 PM ^

team behind the wings.   when i was a kid (think: t-rex still roamed the earth) we had what we called 'flicker hockey' or rod hockey sets, the old style spin the rod and the hockey player at the other end would twirl around.   canadiens vs. wings. 

 

 

 

 

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EGD

April 27th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^

I was born in 1975 and started watching hockey probably around the mid 1980s or thereabouts. At that time, the Red Wings were in the Norris Division and their main rivals were teams like Chicago, Toronto, and Minnesota (the North Stars, not the Wild), as well as other formidable Campbell Conference foes like Edmonton and Calgary. Montreal was in the other conference and would appear on the schedule maybe twice per season. It's hard to consider a team like that a true rival, even if they may have been one back in the time of the Original Six.

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Sac Fly

April 27th, 2015 at 3:41 AM ^

Pateryn picked up his first two career points in the last two playoff games. He's been exceeding expectations since they called him up, I think he can stick in this league.

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MichiganG

April 27th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^

As a Habs fan, I've seen all of Pateryn's NHL games and he definitely playing like an NHL-caliber defenseman. He should absolutely stick. Next year may still not get to play a full season if Montreal keeps the sort of depth they have on the blueline, but he's on his way there.

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yossarians tree

April 27th, 2015 at 2:05 PM ^

I heard today that if the Red Wings take care of business tonight, they will play Les Habitants in the second round. Interested to see if this will force me to hate P.K. Subban because I love the way he plays up to this point. I can't see that sentiment surviving a seven game series though.

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mtlcarcajou

April 27th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^

Really hope the Habs find enough room for him - entriely possible if we flame out the next round. Rumour is Tinordi is on his way out, so maybe.

Patches has disappoint. But he did have a suspected concussion just before the season ended. Still, disappoint.

I've never had any real ill-will towards the Wings, and even now that we're in the same division can't get up anything like Bruin- or Leaf-hatred levels. And our 70's show can hardly be compared with Ohio State, absolutely terrible analogy. Certainly wasn't the Habs fault that the Wings sucked then while we built maybe the best team ever. 

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