Everything collapses in the 3rd period for the Canadian

After a difficult start, the Montreal Canadiens players had the merit of rolling up their sleeves and turning the tide in the second period, Monday evening. It seems, however, that they forgot the fact that a hockey game lasts three periods.

The Pittsburgh Penguins scored two goals in just under four minutes in the third period and recorded a 6-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre.

Kevin Hayes first broke a 3-3 tie at 7:47 when he grabbed a loose puck in front of Samuel Montembeault’s net after a shot from veteran defenseman Erik Karlsson.

Kristopher Letang added the insurance net on a three-way play started by defender Matt Grzelcyk and to which veteran Evgeni Malkin ably contributed.

Lars Eller scored two goals against his former team on Monday at the Bell Centre.

Photo: The Canadian Press / Graham Hughes

Former Canadian Lars Eller also contributed to the Penguins’ triumph with his first two goals of the season. Rickard Rakell also beat Montembeault, who blocked 26 pucks.

Malkin added an empty-net goal with 70 seconds on the clock for his third point of the evening.

After the game, Montembeault blamed himself for Eller’s second goal, which allowed the Penguins to tie the score at 3-3, late in the second, after the Habs had erased an 0-2 deficit.

We came back, we led 3-2. It’s ‘on me’ the third goal. It’s a throw that I can’t get beat straight up like that. In the third, we could have had a few chances, they had some too, they scored. It’s a game you have to learn from.

For the Canadian, who suffered a first setback at home, Kaiden Guhle, Juraj Slafkovsky and Emil Heineman deceived the vigilance of Tristan Jarry, who received 27 shots.

Nick Suzuki and Mike Matheson each collected two assists for the Canadian (2-2-0).

On Tuesday off from training, the Canadian will play his next game Thursday evening at home, against the Los Angeles Kings.

Speed ​​beaters

When the game started, the Penguins had a roster with 10 thirty-somethings, nine of whom were at least 31 years old, compared to five among the Canadians.

However, it was the visitors who displayed the most energetic legs in the first period. And especially during the first half of the engagement.

The Penguins got the first eight shots of the game before the Canadian tested Jarry, courtesy of Jake Evans, from the top of the slot, with 6:18 remaining in the period.

It was definitely a difficult start, it was very much a lack of execution. We missed passes, we threw things at each other, we weren’t able to catch a pass. It makes it hard to execute the plan you want to playanalyzed head coach Martin St-Louis.

The inertia of the Montreal squad during the first period helped the Penguins build a two-goal lead.

Eller opened the scoring at 6:54, taking advantage of a fall in central territory by David Savard and then the fact that Lane Hutson had slightly committed to Jesse Puljujarvi in ​​the defensive zone.

Rakell doubled the Penguins’ lead about 10 minutes later on a one-timer, after effective work from Michael Bunting and Malkin behind the Canadian’s net.

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Juraj Slafkovsky scored his first goal of the season Monday night against Pittsburgh.

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Before the end of the period, Guhle woke up the Canadian and all his supporters by beating Jarry with a shot from the right point, helped by Matheson and Suzuki.

We moved back into the middle of the first, we had good deep presences, we had gravity, we went for a big goal. It’s not our best start to the match, but we were able to get back into the match with this goalobserved St-Louis.

This goal had obvious and favorable repercussions for the Montreal team, which largely dominated the middle period.

The second was our best period of the seasonsummarized the Canadian head coach.

After only two minutes, the Canadian was offered a first numerical advantage and he only took 51 seconds to capitalize.

Forgotten at the mouth of the net, Slafkovsky deflected Suzuki’s pass behind Jarry, who had advanced in anticipation of a shot from the Habs captain.

After scoring, Slafkovsky looked at his captain and pretended to remove his helmet, to thank his center player for the skillful pass he had just served him.

The Canadian even took the lead for the first time in the match thanks to Heineman, who scored unassisted at 14:26 during a two-on-one breakaway with Oliver Kapanen.

However, Eller brought both clubs back to square one less than two minutes later, after he beat Matheson in the central zone for possession of the puck.

Despite this, the Canadian could have regained the lead during a minor penalty on Eller early in the third period. The power play, however, did not generate any good scoring chances, except for one from Brendan Gallagher near the very end.

Then, against all odds, the Penguins took advantage of the opportunities given to them to break this tie once and for all.

In third, I think we had good intentions, we perhaps lacked a little executionunderlined St-Louis.

The fourth goal is a shot on net. It happened quickly. We’re going to watch the video. The fifth goal hurt a lotthen recognized the Canadian head coach.

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