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Game highlights – Montreal Canadiens vs Florida Panthers – Pre-season
Sep 28th
Quite a spirited affair last night between the Canadiens and the Florida Panthers. Here are some game highlights courtesy of Sportsnet.
Montreal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals – 2009/2010 season 45th game highlights
Jan 6th
Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Washington Capitals played on January 5th 2010.
Washington won this game 4-2. The Canadiens managed to make it close towards the end by making it 3-2… but in all honesty the only thing that kept them in the game was their goaltender. On this night it was Carey Price.
An all to common theme. Outshot 43-26 by Washington it looked as though the Canadiens were just out-worked all night long. In many of the games battles for the puck the Capitals would just come out on top.
Frustrating to see this scenario play out again and again. We have the luxury of having 2 great young goaltenders at the moment. Both Price and Halak have played great, but you can’t expect the Habs to win too many if they continue to be so badly outshot. Team defense is a biggie.
Montreal Canadiens vs Atlanta Thrashers – 2009/2010 season 38th game highlights and comments
Dec 22nd
Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the Atlanta Thrashers played on December 21th 2009…. but first some comments.
The Canadiens won the game 4-3 in Overtime (which was predicted with little time to play in the 3rd on Twitter by Arpon Basu). It wasn’t the prettiest of games. Montreal were again outshot by a very large margin. Overall team defensive play has to be improved to cut down on the shots that make it to either Jaroslav Halak or Carey Price.
You can’t expect to win very many games in the NHL if your opponent is in your zone firing rubber at your goaltender most of the evening. Although I will say that in the case of the Montreal Canadiens at least Jacques Martin has 2 very capable young goalies to rely upon. But they won’t steal every game.
Jaroslav Halak was, in the end, left to face 53 shots (that made it through to him) stopping 50 of them. Is that not scary? If I was coaching this team that would be one of the most frightening numbers that I would have to face…. never mind they somehow won the game. The last several years the Montreal Canadiens were outshot alot and though this year it seemed that it was getting a bit better early on it’s pretty much back to where it was in terms of these shot totals.
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Montreal Canadiens vs New Jersey Devils – 2009/2010 season 35th game highlights and comments
Dec 17th
Here are the game highlights from the Montreal Canadiens vs the New Jersey Devils played on December 17th 2009.
I missed the first period of play as I was at my daughter’s Christmas concert. (She did very well!)
Something the Canadiens have to improve on is the penalties they take. Again last night they took bad penalties which always puts them behind the 8 ball. While their penalty kill has been good this year (currently 8th in the league) it’s certainly not a reason to play shorthanded. Even when your only goal comes short handed (Travis Moen scored Montreal’s goal shorthanded).
Last night wasn’t the most exciting hockey in the world…. lot’s of shut down style defense. In the end though the one thing that sticks in my mind is New Jersey’s first goal. A long shot that was going way over the net…. Price puts his glove up…. the puck hits his glove, goes directly on the right side post…. bounces up to his feet…. where the puck then hits Carey’s skate as he skates back…. and the puck goes into the net.
Bad.
Here are the game highlights:
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Habs playing a great 40 through 2 periods vs Carolina
Nov 16th
Posted by Yves in Game comments
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I’m pleasantly surprised. Seems as though the Canadiens are playing a near perfect game so far vs the Carolina Hurricanes.
An important stat, in my mind, that sticks out right away is that Montreal has only picked up 2 penalties. (To Carolina’s 1)
They were so heavily penalized in past games that they would sometimes kill whatever momentum they were building.
Interesting note, Carey Price got an assist on the first goal (Cammalleri scoring, Plekanec with the other assist). While they seemed to need to find the offense just a little while back, who knew it would come from Price.
Scott Gomez and Max Pacioretty and leading the team with 4 shots a piece…. 32 shots after 2!! Limiting Carolina to 12 shots.
That’s my 1 concern…. Price is usually hot when he faces tons of shots…. but with only 12 shots, he may be a little cold.
On to the 3rd!