Habs more fans, therefore auto win.

Wanna fight?

except that habs, historically and as of now, have a better team. they finished higher than any other team this year???

Who cares about the regular season. Playoffs is where you see the good teams and Habs got raped in 5 games by the Sens last year with a 50% Karlsson and no Spezza.

isolated cases are op

past =/= present

they had the best regular season record and ran into a hot goaltender in the first round

Not trying to argue, but here's some facts:
- It was a half season (roughly) where they were phenomenal the first 3/4 and started a major dive the remainder
- They finished dead last in the East the last full season
- allowed 20sh goals in 5 playoff games to the underdog team (yes Anderson was hot I guess, but was Price/Habs d Cold and/or Sens offense hot? I could see an argument for the first, but I don't think sens offense was that phenomenal - Pageau (who?) had a hattrick..)

Sure, the addition of Briere, Parros, a healthy Markov, and a few other additions might make the team better, but they also lost a goal scorer in Ryder. Just based on those facts, I don't see them being that great of team, especially comparing them to an Oilers team with several great additions this offseason and an extremely talented group of picks that are going to hit their prime in the near future nor the Sens who have a Vezina quality tender with a strong def even without their Norris trophy winner, and what looks to be a much better group of forwards this coming season with a healthy Spezza & addition of Ryan. I could see Habs being a better team this season than Canucks, Maple Leafs (albeit relatively close imo with those two), Jets, and Flames, but Sens and Oilers I'm not so sure.

This post was edited by Rivals on Aug 18 2013 01:16pm

Same could be said for any team any time you want.

Habs didn't step up when they needed to.

Also getting hot for a stretch last season bumped you in the standings a lot higher than a normal season where it had a chance to balance out.