You know, the most fickle thing in hockey is momentum. Sometimes you have it and you can do no wrong and you win a bunch of games you have no business winning. Everything you touch turns to gold. But when you do not have it, the opposite happens. Case in point right now, Buffalo has it, Montreal does not. If you may recall, at the begining of the year, the Sabres were horrid and all the word was out of Buffalo was for Lindy Ruff to get canned and for Darcy Rigere to make a trade. Neither of those things happend. Now they have uncle Mo in the dressing room and look at them. I watched their game agains the Avs last night and the Sabres made so many mistakes yet still found a way to win (much like the Habs did earlier in the season).

When you do not have momentum on your team everything goes wrong. Confidence gets down. You grip your stick a little bit tighter. Your goalie gets shaky. And the mistakes you got away with when you were winning are magnified 10,000 times over. All of a sudden all the good thinsg that people said about you are negatives. I remember everyone raving about how much depth we had when we were winning. Now it seems that with a few injuries, we are woefully lacking depth. How does one get momentum back you ask? If I had the answer for that I would make millions. Sometimes it is just a matter of getting on a roll..to do that you need Uncle Mo's gorgeous wife, Lady Luck. Lady Luck has not been kind to the habs lately. To be frank, Lady Luck is a prosititute.  She has no loyalties and goes where she feels like.

One thing is painfully obvious right now that we need and that is a sniper (yes I know we need defence and a second line center etc etc). But we need someone who is a scoring threat. Yes to an extent Kovalev fills that role but not in the pure "sniper mold". I am talking Iginla, Jagr, Crosby, Ovechkin type of guys who are a threat to score everytime they touch the puck. We do not have that element and it shows. Here's hoping Uncle Mo and Lady Luck come back to the habs room soon.