Saturday’s game saw a much better performance from the Montreal Canadiens, albeit one that borrowed from Claude Julien’s style of hockey. The players spent the last 10 minutes of the game accumulating point shots and trying to brute-force pucks in. There was also the conservative start to three-on-three overtime.
Nick Suzuki said it best a week ago: The Habs can’t play games trying not to lose. It rarely works. The Winnipeg Jets also deserve credit, however, as their team defence made it hard for the Habs to find passing seams inside the slot.
One big positive last night was the play of Alexander Romanov.