Over the course of an 82-game season, there’s going to be a game or two that you want to completely forget about. Wednesday night was one of those games… An absolute stinker.
But the Habs managed to pick up a precious point in the standings losing the the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in a shootout.
Montreal benefitted by scoring on their first two shots of the game and that was all they could muster of offensively. Both goals were the result of fluke bounces that went Montreal’s way.
Flyers’ goaltender Samuel Ersson made his first stop of the game over a minute into the second period and only faced 19 Montreal shots in the game.
Head coach Martin St Louis summed things up pretty well after the game… “Tonight we didn’t have our fast ball, we didn’t play a good game.”
Pluses:
- After a rocky start, it was a solid night in goal for Cayden Primeau who was Montreal’s best player. His best came in overtime when Montreal was severely outchanced.
- Goals for Sean Monahan are good as his stock on the trade market continues to rise. He might be the second best center available to contending teams, after Calgary’s Elias Lindholm.
Minuses:
- After a good outing for the New York Rangers on Saturday night, the penalty kill let the Habs down once again.
- The first line was invisible and when the first line isn’t involved, Montreal’s lack of depth is on full display.
- It might be time to sit down Justin Barron for a game or two in favour of Johnathan Kovacevic. It’s a long season and young players will have fluctuation in their game. Barron has struggled for the last couple weeks.
- Although it didn’t FEEL like a two goal lead, the Canadiens blew another two goal lead.
- Hard to understand the overtime deployment with Josh Anderson and Jake Evans seeing so much of the time in the extra frame.
- We spent two hours of our lives watching.
The Montreal Canadiens next match up with the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night at the Bell Centre.
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