UPDATE: It's official—Jacques Martin will be starting Jaroslav Halak tonight. So what do you all think? Is that the right choice?
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All of the talk since the Canadiens' 2-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night has been about Carey Price being booed when he was announced as the game's third star—and rightfully so.
Montreal is a city where the rabid fans tend to go off the deep end at both ends of the emotional scale: anger and happiness. This is a city where people want a winning team so badly that they often take any positive sign to mean that the team will win the Cup and any negative sign to mean that they will miss the playoffs.
This year the Habs have essentially been a .500 hockey team, and as such, there have been a lot of ups and downs for the fans.
That being said, when a 22-year-old kid, playing in his third year in the NHL, stands on his head during the third period of a losing effort and gets booed, you know that people are thinking with their hearts and not their heads.
The consensus from the Habs' dressing room over the last two days has been that while the fans hav ...
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