Carolina is back on road ice tonight, taking on the Canadiens. We can catch up on the starting keeper and other line notes later in the day.
Montreal has fumbled the ball after a hot start to the season, with four straight loses coming into tonight's game to land on 11-8-5 for the year. Picked to be a below the fold team in the East, the Habs came out competitive. In fact, they've been defying conventional wisdom all year. Carey Price is supposed to be the one thing that keeps this team competitive and he's been decidedly pedestrian all year and has a downright Scott Darling-esque save percentage. Max Domi was supposed to be a nice addition as a supporting player, and instead he's leading them in scoring. Drouin was hot garbage last year and has been pretty good so far. Tomas Tatar was done like dinner after that lifeless season in Vegas, except he's not. Weird year thus far in Montreal. Either way, four losses in a row has had a predictable result and they've been freaking out a bit the last few days. They should be fired up for this one.
Carolina put the kibosh to their hot streak for real with that moribund performance in Brooklyn on Saturday. Jake Bean is up and presumably in the lineup tonight, and Brindy came about an inch short of naming McIllhenney his default starter yesterday. Otherwise, he put the lines in the Laviolette Mixmaster 1000 on Saturday but I look for a return to something like normalcy tonight. We'll see how the boys respond. The two teams aren't terribly dissimilar, really. It's not a matchup problem tonight.
Montreal has fumbled the ball after a hot start to the season, with four straight loses coming into tonight's game to land on 11-8-5 for the year. Picked to be a below the fold team in the East, the Habs came out competitive. In fact, they've been defying conventional wisdom all year. Carey Price is supposed to be the one thing that keeps this team competitive and he's been decidedly pedestrian all year and has a downright Scott Darling-esque save percentage. Max Domi was supposed to be a nice addition as a supporting player, and instead he's leading them in scoring. Drouin was hot garbage last year and has been pretty good so far. Tomas Tatar was done like dinner after that lifeless season in Vegas, except he's not. Weird year thus far in Montreal. Either way, four losses in a row has had a predictable result and they've been freaking out a bit the last few days. They should be fired up for this one.
Carolina put the kibosh to their hot streak for real with that moribund performance in Brooklyn on Saturday. Jake Bean is up and presumably in the lineup tonight, and Brindy came about an inch short of naming McIllhenney his default starter yesterday. Otherwise, he put the lines in the Laviolette Mixmaster 1000 on Saturday but I look for a return to something like normalcy tonight. We'll see how the boys respond. The two teams aren't terribly dissimilar, really. It's not a matchup problem tonight.
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