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# Komisarek's Brutal Night
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/komisareks-brutal-night/
- Published: 2010-10-08T17:54:57.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-08T17:54:57.000Z
- Author: Jason Orach
- Tags: #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:01

[Mike Komisarek](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/55649/mike-komisarek?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) played 12:08 last night [broken down as such](http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20102011/TH020001.HTM?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com):

| **Period** | **EV** | **PP** | **PK** | **TOT** |
| ---------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------- |
| **1**      | 4:40   |        |        | 4:40    |
| **2**      | 2:48   |        | 2:04   | 4:45    |
| **3**      | 2:36   |        |        | 2:36    |
| **Total**  | 10:04  | 0:00   | 2:04   | 12:08   |

In his 10 even strength minutes Komisarek managed to be on the ice for both Montreal goals. Ron Wilson didn't give a ringing endorsement of Komisarek's play to Leafs Beat:

He didn't play very much last year and he didn't play very much within our system so his ice time wasn't a lot last night because other guys are playing a little bit better. And that's the way it's going to be. - [James Mirtle, The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/wilson-komisarek-still-a-work-in-progress/article1750034/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Wilson isn't strictly throwing Komisarek under the bus but that doesn't say a lot for him. I'm of the personal opinion that despite being injury shortened Komisarek's last season was horrible. I was willing to give him a Toskala mulligan but he needs to drastically improve his play from what he's bringing right now.

On the first Montreal goal last night [Carl Gunnarsson](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/72010/carl-gunnarsson?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) fails to clear the puck off the glass and it goes directly to [Dustin Boyd](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/54659/dustin-boyd?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) who steps around a standing Komisarek to bang it home on J.S. Giguere. I'll fault Gunnarsson and Komisarek equally. The second goal was kind of fluky and Komisarek had a man tied up. Both Komisarek and [Francois Beauchemin](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/54518/francois-beauchemin?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) need to settle down a little in the zone on that play.

Forget the storyline of Montreal being happy to be rid of him; at the time Bob Gainey was distraught to have lost Komisarek so it's clear other teams think he has a lot to bring to the table. We just need him to show it. For his part he seems to be taking it in stride:

Asked if he minded that his ice time was seriously curtailed, with only five shifts and 2:36 in the third period, Komisarek said no.

"It's one game," he said. - [James Mirtle, The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/wilson-komisarek-still-a-work-in-progress/article1750034/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

That's the right attitude for a veteran who needs to work his way back into the lineup. Remember last year he had a terrible game against Montreal. Hopefully he's jittery playing against his old team until he gets used to beating them. Let's hope he turns it around, we'll need him.