The Montreal Canadiens annual December road trip takes them to the province of Alberta, with back-to-back games against the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.
The Habs are coming off a 7-5 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, and will be looking to duplicate that result tonight, though Claude Julien would prbbaly prefer it come with fewer goals against.
The first game into Shea Weber’s indefinite absence was less than convincing from a makeshift blue-line contingent, and that was with an excellent game from Jeff Petry, who had been moved up to the number-one spot.