Recap – 3 Stars, Highlights, Presser: Price, Pacioretty Power Habs Past Canucks

Game 58 Home game 31 | Thursday February 6, 2014
	Game Recap: Max Pacioretty claimed the spotlight with three goals, including an empty-netter, and two missed penalty shots, both in the second period. But it was Carey Price who was the backbone of the Canadiens victory stopping 42 of 44 Canucks shots.  Ryan White scored his first goal of the season.   Plus / Minus ▲  Carey Price, Ryan White, Max Pacioretty, Brendan Gallagher, Tomas Plekanec, Lars Eller, David Desharnais ▼  Danny Briere
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Boxscore:

Summary:
Goal Scorers: MTL  Pacioretty(24), White(1), Pacioretty(25), Plekanec(17), Pacioretty(26)-EN VAN  Higgins(16), Edler(5) Goalies: MTL Price (W)  25-17-5 VAN Luongo (L)  19-15-6

Shots on Goal:

NHL Three Stars
	Max Pacioretty  MTL   David Desharnais  MTL  Ryan White  MTL

Coach Michel Therrien

• “[Ryan White] is playing well since he’s back but I was liking the way he played before too. He’s a young player that matured. For me, he’s improved. At times we give him missions for faceoffs. He takes responsibility 5-on-5 and we are glad that he was able to score his first goal, well-deserved. Like last game he went around the net and again tonight. He brings energy to the team. Good performance again from him.”
• “We’ll see (if Michael Bournival will be at practice tomorrow.) I haven’t heard anything yet.  (It’s an) upper-body (injury.)”
• “Tonight [Max Pacioretty] was quick on puck, did a lot of good things. There’s a good chemistry with that line. Tonight they were really good.”
• “We’ve got back to the team concept. We’re focusing on the way we’re supposed to play. I don’t mind facing adversity, the club facing adversity, it’s how you’re going to respond. I think that a lot of players showed a lot of good leadership. We were able to respond the right way.”
• “I like the way that [the fourth line] is playing.  We have a good balance with our forwards.”

Canucks head coach John Tortorella

• “All we can do is continue working at this and earn some good bounces.  We aren’t hanging our heads.”

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