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Montreal Canadiens vs Arizona Coyotes, Game Recap: Habs, Line-up, Score, Statistics, Highlights, Post-game, Interviews, NHL, Three-Stars

FINAL | Game 37, Away Game 21 | Monday January 17, 2022
Gila River Arena, Glendale, AR

CANADIENS

Montreal

2-5

Arizona Coyotes logo

COYOTES

Arizona

(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Canadiens Lineup

Forward lines

Mike Hoffman – Nick Suzuki – Josh Anderson

Rem Pitlick – Christian Dvorak – Jonathan Drouin

Artturi Lehkonen – Jake Evans – Joel Armia

Laurent Dauphin – Ryan Poehling – Cole Caufield

Defence pairings

Ben Chiarot – David Savard

Alexander Romanov – Jeff Petry

Brett Kulak – Chris Wideman

Goaltenders

Cayden Primeau – Sam Montembeault

Scratches

Michael Pezzetta, Sami Niku

Injuries

Cedric Paquette (undisclosed), Jake Allen (lower-body), Paul Byron (hip), Brendan Gallagher (lower-body), Mathieu Perreault (lower-body), Tyler Toffoli (hand), Joel Edmundson (back), Carey Price (knee), Shea Weber (multiple injuries)

COVID-19 protocol

None

Taxi squad

Michael McNiven, Lukas Vejdemo, Corey Schueneman, Kale Clague

Game Report

This was a matchup of the bottom-feeders, the two worst teams in the NHL. The Coyotes and Canadiens had a lot in common: they don’t score much, they give up a lot of goals and their special teams are among the worst in the league. And it’s fair to say that the game lived up to the billing.

Clayton Keller is the top scorer for the Coyotes with 14 goals on the season, exactly double the total of the best Montreal Canadien.

Arpon Basu of The Athletic shared an interesting tidbit of information:

“Josh Anderson was injured Dec. 2 as the Canadiens team leader in goals with 7. He comes back 46 DAYS LATER and remains tied for the Canadiens team lead in goals with 7.”

Anderson, who missed more than six weeks, is tied for the team league in goals with Nick Suzuki and Rem Pitlick who was just picked up on waivers (if you count his totals from the Minnesota Wild.) The Canadiens are having an astonishingly bad year.

Speaking of Pitlick, after his goal in this game, he has seven goals on 14 shots this season, for a wildly unsustainable shooting percentage of 50.

Ryan Poehling had the nicest goal for the Canadiens redirecting a shot for a power-play marker. He continues to consistently go to the goal, one of the few Canadiens who do.

It was a rough outing for Cayden Primeau who is still struggling with positioning and lateral movement. Ducharme obviously wanted to boost his confidence by giving him the start against a weak opponent but it didn’t work out that way. Primeau was pulled after the second period making way for Sam Montembeault.

Up Next

Brendan Gallagher caused a stir during the second intermission when he tweeted about the Canadiens lost goalie interference challenge in the second period.

The Canadiens head to Dallas for the second half of their back-to-back games. Note that it is a 8:30 pm. ET start time.

Plus

▲  Ryan Poehling, Joel Armia, Jonathan Drouin

Minus

▼  Cayden Primeau, Laurent Dauphin, Josh Anderson, Jeff Petry, Cole Caufield, Ben Chiarot, David Savard, Mike Hoffman

Game Preview

Check out the game preview here: Dvorak Back in AZ | PREVIEW: MTL @ ARI

The Numbers

Game Statistics
CANADIENS   COYOTES
26 Shots 23
49 Face-off % 51
1-for-3 Power Play 0-for-5
10 Penalty Minutes 6
36 Hits 31
42 Corsi For 41
Scoring Summary
FINAL 1 2 3 OT SO T
Canadiens (7-25-5) 1 1 0 2
Coyotes (9-24-4) 2 2 1 5
Scorers Goalies
  • MTL: Pitlick (7), Poehling (5)-PPG
  • ARI: Boyd (9), Larsson (5), Moser (3), Schmaltz (2), Keller (14)
  • MTL: Primeau (L) (1-3-0), Montembeault
  • ARI: Vejmelka (W) (5-14-1)

Stars of the Game

Official NHL Three Stars
NHL3stars
  1. Nick Schmaltz  ARI
  2. Johan Larsson  ARI
  3. Janis Moser  ARI

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Video Highlights

What Did They Say?

Post-game Quotes

Dominique Ducharme

  • “Changing the momentum a little bit, sometimes just to spark the team. We cannot say it was [Cayden Primeau’s] fault, but I wanted to see (Sam) Montembeault in the third and see what would happen.”
  • “We have to be 0-in-10 on calls like these, the rest of us, he continued, very irritated. So yes, it’s ‘tough’ to swallow, that’s for sure. In addition, we risk seeing another of our players receive a suspension tonight, or a fine, in front of a referee. And there was not even a punishment.”

Laurent Dauphin

  • “I think we let odd-man rushes a couple of times in the first, which cost us. We never got it back really.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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