Before Thursday night’s game, we had a post out discussing three things the Montreal Canadiens needed to change moving forward.
They took only two penalties in their game against the Detroit Red Wings, but they gave up one man-advantage goal via Anthony Mantha. The shots were virtually even (34 vs. 35 in favour of the Habs), but they were royally out-chanced and out-possessed at 5v5. To get down to the numbers, the Montreal Canadiens had 16 scoring chances to Detroit’s 27 (including high-danger scoring chances 12-4) while the latter finished the game with a nearly 53% Corsi-For rating (Habs were at 47%).