How To Stop The Maple Leafs Tuesday Night

[Habsfan84]

So...we're 0-2 vs The Maple Leafs...How Do We solve them?

1) Start Carey Price...The Leafs seem to have Huet's number as of late. Huet is 0-3 against the Leafs in his last 3. By having Price in net, it poses new challenges

2) DO NOT let the Leafs gain early momentum...neutralize the crowd by coming hard out of the gate like we did against the Senators

3) No irresponsible penalties early in the game (Wellwood, Tucker, and McCabe are going to help Toronto's PP a lot)

4) In order to win, they must play a full 60 Minutes of hockey...not 57...not 58...not even 59:59

5) Bench the slackers...Promote the diggers. If Michael Ryder continues his poor play, demote him from the first line within the first 5 minutes of the game.
IMO, a changing up of lines is necessary so our 5 on 5 play improves.

Higgins-Koivu-Chips
Kostitsyn-Pleks-Kovy
Kostopoulis-Smoke-Grabovski
Lats-Begin-Ryder

D pairings stay the same....but I would like to see Dandenault go in place of Cube or Gorges

6) Powerplay must be effective and stay hot, however, in order to get powerplays...they must achieve #2 and #4 first. Also, it would be nice to get a little
more congestion in front of Toskala and a few attempts to tip shots

7) Do not sit back and go into "defensive mode". It is important to remain defensively responsible, yet forecheck and pressure has to be executed...We can't
nurse a one goal (or even a two goal..as we remember the nightmare game of the season last year) Lead!!!!!

If all seven of these are Accomplished, I can see the Canadiens coming out with a big victory.
Any other keys to the game...add them to the thread

GO GO