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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2589051" data-attributes="member: 2012">Habs win pre-season openerCanadian Press9/18/2005 8:56:15 PMMONTREAL (CP) - First round draft choice Carey Price stopped all nine shots he faced in his Canadiens debut and Jan Bulis assisted on all three Montreal goals in a 3-2 exhibition victory Sunday over the Atlanta Thrashers.Mike Ribeiro, Jonathan Ferland and Marcel Hossa scored for the Canadiens (1-0-0-0), while Francis Lessard and Jim Slater replied for the Thrashers (0-2-0-0).The exhibition game was a chippy affair; both teams combined for 32 penalties.The announced crowd of 16,893 let out a big cheer when the puck was dropped at 7:08 p.m. to mark the return of NHL hockey to Montreal, but it quickly became evident this wasn't the same game that was being played back in 2004.Referees Stephane Auger and Don Van Massenhoven didn't take long to showcase the NHL's intolerance to obstruction, calling 14 penalties in the first period alone, including six for hooking.Atlanta's Bobby Holik, making his debut in a Thrashers' uniform, was whistled for interference and hooking before the game was 15 minutes old.In all, 17 of the 32 penalties were for either hooking or interference.Price - the fifth overall pick in the 2005 draft who plays for the Tri-City Americans in the WHL - was very impressive in the Montreal net, making a save with the back of his leg while doing the splits in the first period. He also showed off his excellent puck handling skills by clearing the puck out of his zone during a first period Thrashers power play, and also hitting Ribeiro with a long, two-line pass early in the second period.Canadiens rookie Alexander Perezhogin played his first game in North America after being suspended all last season for a stick swinging incident in the 2004 AHL playoffs. He played on a line with Ribeiro and Pierre Dagenais and was assessed three penalties, none for slashing. He scored the winning goal in the shootout as the Canadiens won 2-1. Every pre-season game will have a shootout this year no matter the score at the end of regulation.Ribeiro opened the scoring midway through the first period, converting a nice give and go play with Bulis by flipping a backhand under the crossbar at 10:35.Montreal went ahead 2-0 early in the second when Bulis slid a pass through the slot to Kyle Chipchura, who immediately fed Ferland in front for an easy tap-in goal at 2:51.Atlanta cut Montreal's lead in half at 16:11 of the second when Serge Aubin slid a perfect feed through the crease to a rushing Ferland, who tapped the puck Danis on the first shot he faced in the game.The Canadiens made it 3-1 in the third while Holik sat out his third penalty of the game, with Hossa converting a nice feed from Bulis out of the corner at 4:57, but Atlanta got back to within one when Slater scored his second of the pre-season on a power play at 10:06 of the third.Notes: The Canadiens did not dress captain Saku Koivu, goalie Jose Theodore, winger Alex Kovalev or defencemen Craig Rivet, Sheldon Souray and Andrei Markov. Canadiens defenceman Mike Komisarek didn't dress due to the flu, and winger Michael Ryder was nursing a sprained ankle suffered in practice Friday. Mathieu Dandenault took Komisarek's place, making his Canadiens debut after singing with Montreal in the off-season. ... The Thrashers' Marian Hossa did not make the road trip.</blockquote>

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