Listen....

Contrary to what most of you are saying about Souray being a victim of the new rules, if you look at the replay again you can clearly see that Souray tried to hit him by sticking out his hip. The Spezza play was even more spectacular in the sense that he anticipated the interference from Souray and bowed out of the hip check well knowing that it was coming.

Souray was plainly beaten in all respects.  The two players standing behind Spezza as he did his dance around Theo are to blame because at that point in the game they should have done anything to stop him-a hook or even an on ice dive.  But they didn't.  They just watched him until it was too late.  I say that as a habs fan.

I take nothing away from spezza.  So far this year he has impressed me more than crosby has.

Albeit I enjoyed losing in that manner because it was a clean intelligent show of talent.

If the winning goal would have trickled in off a shot from the point, it would have been heart breaking and disappointing.  Good thing is that Habs played a hell of a game and got a point at least.