There were several points during the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-2 loss to the Washington Capitals on Thursday night where I thought about something that Canadiens executive vice president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton said during the team’s press conference.
It was when he was discussing the firing of Dominique Ducharme, Gorton explained why he made a move after initially saying he was safe until the end of the season.
He said that the team’s play was deteriorating and that there is still a lot of development to have done.
There’s no question that the team’s play was better on Thursday, and a lot of that was their play in the defensive zone.