Detroit | We suspected that it was going to happen for a given moment. Ten times in the past five weeks, the Canadian has managed to sign a victory, despite a false departure or after granting the first goal. Ten times on the 13 victories acquired during this period.
It is beautiful confidence and resilience, but these two concepts have limits. By dint of playing with fire, we end up burning. This is in the middle of what happened last night in Detroit. The Red Wings scored the first three goals of the match, inflicting a 4 to 2 setback at the CH.
It was one of those evenings when nothing was running round. Particularly in defensive territory during the first 30 minutes. The pair formed by Mike Matheson and Lane Hutson snatched from it near his goalkeeper. Once the blue line has passed, it was fine. But when the time came to defend the territory, it was an adventure that has fun making a hard life.
It was nothing to lighten the burden of Samuel Montembeault and it reflects the fact that the Canadian occupies the fifth row among the teams that grant the most fire from the bottom of the enclave.
To return to Hutson, it was not his evening. The first goal of the Wings was the fruit of a lost battle at the bottom of the territory. Later, one of his shots was blocked by Simon Edvinsson, which allowed Andrew Copp to score in an escape.
To add to the dish, he saw his sequence of matches with at least one point and at least one pass stop to new. And he visited the dungeon.
The pressure was strong
He is not the only one to blame. Arber Xhekaj also had a difficult evening. Even Alexandre Carrier experienced trouble. It was his least convincing match since its acquisition, occurred curiously during the last presence of the Habs in the city of the automobile.
We were then on December 19 and Martin St-Louis’ troop was preparing to sweep the round trip to the Red Wings. Two victories that gave the 16 games (12-3-1) that allowed Montrealers to be redeemed in the play at the playoffs.
This is what the Wings, now led by Todd McLellan, had to have in mind in anticipation of this visit. They attacked from the start, submachine Montembeault of 17 shots in the first twenty. A hardly sustainable pressure.
The tricolor recovered later, but the evil was already done.
-Savard warning
In the morning, David Savard had taken care to warn everyone about the risks linked to indiscipline.
“Lately, there are too much punishment. They have players who gain a lot of confidence by touching the washer. Our unity of numerical inferiority is a good job, but we will have to be careful, ”warned the defender.
Let’s say that the instruction was not followed to the letter. The Habs received four punishment, including that awarded to Juraj Slafkovsky, in the offensive zone, while Montembeault had returned to the bench for the benefit of a sixth striker.
Officially, the locals took advantage of only one of them. During the goal of Dylan Larkin. Except that Kirby Dach had not yet had time to return to the fray when Alex Debrincat marked his 20th of the season.
As if it were not enough, COPP’s goal, mentioned above, was scored in digital disadvantage.
It’s a shame because the Canadian had the opportunity to keep one of his pursuers from the race. One of these famous four -point matches was talked about. In addition to not being able to sow the wings a little more, Montrealers have missed a good chance of climbing third in the Atlantic division and ahead of the lightning, the Blue Jackets and the Rangers.
The match with a magnifying glass
71 %
Christian Dvorak was the best of CH in the circle of engaging with an efficiency of 71 %.
5
Alex Newhook launched a net on 5 occasions, his highest total this season.
+2
Despite the defeat, Kaiden Guhle ended the match with a +2 differential.
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