The Montreal Canadiens welcomed the Los Angeles Kings into the Bell Centre, as the two teams faced each other for the second time in eight days. The Habs were looking to avenge a loss while the Kings, having had a great start to the year, simply needed to keep doing what they’d been doing.
In what could easily be a copy-paste of many of the Canadiens’ 10 games thus far, Montreal played well, and showed the ability to drive pucks on the net from key areas. But they couldn’t keep up enough sustained pressure, create enough speedy transitions, nor show the killer instinct to put goals — any goals — into their opponent’s net.