In the Habs Room: St. Louis furious after Seattle shutout
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When you anticipated the Canadiens to construct on their 5-4 win over the St. Louis Blues Saturday night time, you needed to be upset by what occurred on the Bell Centre Monday night time once they misplaced to the Seattle Kraken.
The Canadiens got here out flatter than a pancake — no, make {that a} crepe — in opposition to the Kraken, who ran up a 3-0 lead. The guests outshot the Canadiens 19-6 within the first interval however these numbers had been flattering as a result of the photographs had been 18-2 after the third Seattle purpose.
“It was unacceptable from our group,” captain Nick Suzuki stated of the beginning. “It began with our first shift. They managed the play for the for the primary two minutes. We now have to have a greater begin. It began with my line and it form of trickled down from there and being down 3-0 after the primary interval’s not a great place.”
So how does the coach handle that difficulty between durations?
Marty St. Louis stated he didn’t wish to go into particulars however, he famous: “They knew I wasn’t comfortable.”
Whereas St. Louis desires his workforce to play a quick offensive recreation, he’s additionally conscious that successful begins with a structured defence and he didn’t see that from his workforce Monday. This was about as upset as St. Louis has been this season as he talked about missed assignments resulting in the primary and third targets.
“When one man doesn’t do his job, it results in a scoring likelihood,” stated St. Louis. “When two guys don’t do their jobs, (the puck) normally finally ends up at the back of the web.”
Veteran David Savard didn’t do his job on the primary purpose. He did not get again in time to stop a 2-on-1 scenario, which led to Vince Dunn establishing Eeli Tolvanen for the purpose.
The Canadiens can child themselves by saying they performed higher within the second and third durations, however the Kraken had a particular edge within the play and just some good goaltending from Sam Montembeault stored Seattle from working up the rating. Seattle had a 16-9 edge in photographs within the second interval and Montembeault held off the Kraken till Calder Trophy candidate Matty Beniers scored an empty-net purpose for his fifteenth of the season.
The Canadiens mounted little in the way in which of offence and had solely six photographs within the remaining interval. Martin Jones completed with 21 saves for the shutout.
Montembeault was upset with the outcome as a result of he had week of follow and was scheduled to start out even earlier than Jake Allen was sidelined with an upper-body harm.
Montembeault took accountability for the second purpose, which was a power-play effort from Daniel Sprong.
“I used to be conscious of the backdoor risk and I over-played in that route,” stated Montembeault. “Once I moved again to the opposite aspect, the shot hit my pad and went in off the publish.”
The Kraken went 1-for-5 on the ability play whereas the Canadiens went 0-for-2 and proceed to have the worst power-play report within the NHL.
As typically occurs in one-sided video games, there was a combat within the third interval and this was a fairly foolish affair with Jake Evans taking over Ryan Donato in a scrap between two former U.S. faculty gamers with no histories of fisticuffs.
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