Good humor reigned in the Canadiens locker room on Tuesday evening following the decisive 6-1 victory against the Sabres.
Juraj Slafkovsky, who finished the game with a goal and an assist, was particularly in a joking mood when he spoke to reporters.
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The 20-year-old striker was obviously relieved to have scored his third goal of the season, obtained in the second period by shooting from behind the net.
“It’s huge, I score once a month, let’s hope it starts to come in a little more,” he first said, deadpan.
Asked to comment on Patrik Laine’s hat trick, “Slaf” had a good one up his sleeve.
“If I had this shot, I would shoot the puck like him, but I don’t have it, so I have to shoot from behind the net,” he said, making members of the media gathered nearby laugh. of him.
The Habs scored three times on the power play in this match, which led the Slovak to launch a little dig at the journalists.
“It’s good for our statistics, so you’ll like it,” he said. You talk about statistics so our power play will go up.
Finally, he said that the ovation he received when he scored a hat trick last April was “much louder” than the one reserved for Laine after his third goal.
Watch his full press briefing in the main video.
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