The Montreal Canadiens were host to the surging Minnesota Wild on Thursday night. The Wild had won their last eight games before heading into the Bell Centre and, as expected, it was another hard-fought battle for the Habs.
Injury has plagued the Canadiens this season, and an already-thin blue line faced some more bad news when it was announced that Andrei Markov would be transferred to IR. Though this isn’t a bad move for the aging defenseman, allowing him to fully rest up over the holidays, it does put a bit more pressure on the young guns.