The Canadian is indeed learning to win

What has Martin St-Louis been repeating since the first day of the season? That he leads the Canadian this season based on helping his team learn to win.

It’s a necessary step in its progression, it’s a step that the organization felt ready to take, and it’s now something the players are able to taste the fruits of.

It’s something new for us, but it’s addictiveadmitted Cole Caufield after the Canadian defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 in overtime.

It was an 8th victory in 10 games for this team which is not used to such successes.

On November 11, before beating the Sabers 7-5 in Buffalo, the CH occupied last place in the general classification.

To be in the portrait of the series? Do you want to laugh?

After defeating the Canucks on Monday, he occupies second place among the teams drafted in the Eastern Conference.

No, the players are not laughing.

They don’t even know what time it is

It’s a thing as old as the original six teams: returning from trips to the National Hockey League (NHL) are often painful, the legs are heavy and the risks of defeat are great.

But after beating the four most recent Stanley Cup champions in quick succession, the Habs absolutely did not want to fall into the trap when returning home.

He has learned to win in the last two months by consistently applying the style he has espoused. He has learned to work without compromise to beat teams that are superior to him.

And on Monday, the players showed that they could draw on their resources and win a Grand Prix with their mule, to regain an image of Formula 1, even if they had not yet recovered from a dizzying journey which left them changed time zones four times in the space of seven days.

The guys don’t even know what time it is right now, but maybe that’s not a bad thing; we keep our heads on the task at handmentioned Caufield, who scored a goal in a fourth straight game.

Caufield scored just 68 seconds into the match, a goal that was made possible by a resounding hit by Kaiden Guhle at the expense of young Jonathan Lekkerimäki.

Guhle continued to play hard afterward, he brought Jayden Struble into his groove, and the Canucks responded as well. Regardless of whether or not the Canadian had the upper hand in number of shoulder shots, the fact is that Guhle knew there was a risk that his team would lack momentum coming back from a tortuous road trip, and he made sure this didn’t happen.

I feel like it’s been two months since we last played in Montreal, said Guhle. It felt good to jump on the ice and hear our entrance music, it pumped me up. I just wanted to set the tone for our team.

I’m trying to integrate more robustness into my game and do it with more regularity. I saw the opportunity to make a check, I took it, and I saw a few tonight.

It was all the more important for the Canadian to win from the start as on a few occasions this season, the team returned from a trip and was corrected in the middle of the Bell Centre. The 7-2 loss to the New York Rangers? The team was returning from Long Island. The 8-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken? She had just played in Philadelphia.

Players often talk to each other about honoring their fans and rising to the occasion at the Bell Centre. These defeats at the start of the season had gone badly and the context of Monday could have lent itself to this kind of departure.

However, according to Martin St-Louis, the way his team starts its games recently helps protect itself from this.

This start is a bit of our identity recently, said the head coach. We start, we play with a lot of rhythm, we send pucks deep and, with our rhythm, that allows us to bring robustness. Early in the match, we are not easy to face. It takes energy, it takes an attitude, and it’s a big part of our success recently.

And of course Guhle was part of that at the start of the match.

A team that never gives up

The other way the Canadian is learning to win games is his new ability to recover when he falls behind. It’s all well and good to start the match strong, there will be nights where the team may not have the tact to put the match out of reach while their opponent falters.

If the opponent regains the upper hand in a match, can the Canadian find the strength of character to recover and not let himself be beaten?

For several weeks, the answer has been yes.

After being unable to win a single game in the first two months of the season when he was behind after two periods, the Canadian has just managed it three times in the last four games.

Earlier in the season, finding yourself down two goals with 16 minutes left in the second period, the final score could have been differentsaid Guhle.

But this team does not give up. There is a lot of confidence within the group, everyone feels good and it is a real pleasure to win. We feel it feeling now that we have won several in the last 10 or 11 games. Everyone is hungry for this feeling-To be.

There’s no doubt, it’s exhilarating to be the team of the hour in the National League.

Hutson faces Quinn Hughes

Drop off your suitcases. Sleeping in bed. Finally stopping.

For all the Canadiens players, their arrival in Montreal on Sunday afternoon was welcome and necessary.

But we have to believe that Lane Hutson didn’t have enough.

The American defenseman traveled to Ottawa to attend the World Junior Championship medal game in which his brother Cole was taking part in the United States uniform.

After all this travel, what’s another 200 kilometers in and a pee break in Casselman?

It was cool that he went to support his brother last night and still had some energy,” Caufield said. I know he’s still very young, but he shows up every night and he’s very mature. There’s nothing really that surprises me about this guy.

Hutson scored a goal and added two assists – including one on Nick Suzuki’s winning goal in overtime – to give himself the first three-point night of his young career.

It was also his eighth game with at least two points this season.

In 40 meetings.

Should this be specified? Hutson is a rookie defenseman.

It is tempting to compare Hutson’s performances with those of Quinn Hughes, the captain and star player of the Canucks whom he faced on Monday.

Hughes, himself a small offensive defenseman, quickly silenced his detractors with the way he tilted the game in favor of the Canucks when he was on the ice. We tried to bring Caufield into the realm of comparisons by asking him if he thought his young teammate would one day tread in the same waters as Hughes, and Caufield replied: I think you already know the answer to this question.

However, caution is required, even if the outburst is increasingly difficult to contain.

Hutson is currently at the top of the scoring list among NHL rookies with 30 points in 40 games.

After 40 games in his rookie season, Quinn Hughes had 29 points.

It doesn’t mean anything… but it’s not insignificant either.

Last spring, during the Canadiens’ visit to Vancouver, Hughes discussed the biggest challenges facing a young offensive defenseman when making the jump from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to the National League.

There are a lot of challenges, and I feel like it takes a few years to find your identity, Hughes replied. In my first year, I found that I couldn’t beat players 1 on 1 as much just with my skating. You have to use your teammates and trust them. You become more of a distributor of pucks and, when you have the opportunity, you show what you’re made of. Anyone can skate in this league.

I know why you ask the question, Hughes added to a TVA Sports journalist. I’m sure he will find the solutions. It’s going to be okay.

Ilit was Hutson.

So far, he has found the solutions.

So far it is correct.

Very correct.