Remember how we all panicked about the state of the power play when news broke that Sheldon Souray would be signing elsewhere this off season? I do. My first thought was that the team would be fine because Gainey was going to sign a goal scoring forward to pick up the slack. When that didn't happen, I began to wonder.....Through the first ten games of the season the Habs are scoring on 30.4% of power plays, good for number one in the NHL. Mark Streit and Andrei Markov are proving to be a nice blue-line tandem on the PP, and Alex Kovalev appears to be the new quarterback of the unit dictating play from his home on the right boards.
Souray's booming slap shot is certainly a force to be reckoned with, but it seems clear that the Habs are a better team without him. The power play is on fire, and we are a much better defensive team with 'The Hammer' now wearing Souray's old number 44.
Kudos to Bob Gainey for realizing that Souray was a lousy defenseman, and not worth the kind of money he was asking for. We as Habs fans should be happy that the priority this off-season was to re-sign Andrei Markov, not Souray. Well played Bob.
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