Montreal.....OPENING NIGHT!!!

Alright Boys and Girls, today is the first official home game of the season for Les Glorieux, first game since the Cammy injury and big win against the Jets in their home opener.


The home opener always has Pomp, always has Circumstance.  This is the biggest crowd, i live in another country and i see it and how much it affects teams for and against.  I've watched every teams home game in the playoffs and none can rival the loudness, each home game is the equivalent of a playoff game, what more can you say?

I'm excited to see Diaz make his debut, the guy says he's nervous, he's played in Euro leagues that have fans standing up whistling and chanting through the whole game!  and He's nervous about this game?  Crazy.

Gill has twice as many games in experience than all other dmen the Habs are dressing tonight.
Injury updates:
Markov is in Florida for final checkups to make sure what his ETA is

and

Lars Eller makes his season debut tonight, i have a lot of hope with Eller, he's smart, fast, ridiculous hands, amazing vision on the ice with his passing, and playing behind Plekanec he gets to see what he'll become, a great two way center who can impact everything.  Just give him time.



Palushaj was called up for this game to replace Cammalleri in the game.

Carey Price said he really liked that he spoiled the party for the Jets first game.
Carey Price will have the chance to enter the record books during the Habs home-opener. With a victory, the young netminder would join the likes of Patrick Roy, Martin Brodeur and Terry Sawchuk among the ranks of goaltenders to have won 100 games by the age of 24.

If you haven't noticed, lately since the start of training camp he ended his contract with Vaughn.  So no more awesome pads like these that he wore last year.

Since then, he's switched to using Pink RBK 4 goalie pads for the Fight Against Cancer month of October, these are his regular practice/game pads but the pink ones will have a pink stripe down the middle.  

Player To watch today as i said last game, Yannick Weber, he's gonna make a real difference again, specially with that big slap shot.

Update on the Cammalleri injury is not much, he suffered a cut, but it didnt do any damage to his knee, muscles, or tendons it was just a cut to the skin, so its gotta heal with the stitches and make sure no infections and he'll be back soon, from my personal experience and lacking on the medical staff they have unlike the one i didnt have, he'll be out two weeks until it's fully healed.  Thank goodness.

GO HABS GO

That reminds me, Donate to cancer foundations, organizations, help with research  or support for treatment for patients,  if your family or friends have ever had or lost the battle to cancer, GO GO GO, make a difference, do something.  Donate your hair if you have to, i did.

Here's some Links:

http://ww5.komen.org/ All the women

http://www.candlelighters.org/Home.aspx for the 'freakin' children

http://www.livestrong.org/ not just for us cyclists

http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ Save second base

http://www.leukemiafoundation.org/

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=25343  Hockey Fights Cancer is always a good one.

and if you think Awareness is BS, thats fine! Like i said, Donate to Research, personally i think that one is better, Cancer awareness just points people "oh hey you have cancer lets find you some money for treatment or something"

or you can do it for research which is "Ok this is cancer?  Lets make cancer our bitch with SCIENCE *slap* WOOOO"

But most of all, enjoy the game and Step Up, or Step Aside.