Dissecting the Canadiens’ late-game strategies and breakdowns

Phillip Danault and Ben Chiarot needed to do a better job of sorting out their assignments in the last neutral-zone forecheck that led to Adam Gaudette’s tying goal. Either Chiarot had to read that Danault was pressuring the carrier and move wide to cover Gaudette, or Danault had to play the situation more passively from the start and stay high to deny the pass to eventual goal-scorer.

But alas, one breakdown from a lack of communication and/or vision and Montreal was back to dreaded overtime play.

Dominique Ducharme’ overtime strategies are quite interesting.