Game Recap: Habs No Match for Potent Blues [VIDEO]

Game 37 Away game 16 | Thursday December 19, 2013
	Game Recap: This game was over early with the Canadiens surrendering three first period goals to the Blues including one with on the power-play. The Habs couldn’t compete with the Blues five-on-five with Carey Price being the only reason the game was close until St. Louis broke it open in the third.   Plus / Minus ▲ Carey Price, Brendan Gallagher ▼ Raphael Diaz, Douglas Murray, David Desharnais, Alexei Emelin
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Boxscore:

Summary:
Goal Scorers: MTL  Gallagher(10) STL  Steen(23), Steen(24), Stewart(10), Schwartz(9), Lapierre(3) Goalies: MTL Price (W)  16-11-2 STL Halak (L)  17-6-2

Shots on Goal:

NHL Three Stars
	Alex Steen  STL   Jaroslav Halak STL  T.J. Oshie STL

Coach Michel Therrien:

• “We didn’t show up tonight. It’s pretty simple. Our work ethic was not there. I’m really disappointed about our performance. The only time that we were working hard, it was when the guys were on the ice to kill penalties. Besides that, nothing. No effort.”
• “(Coming back when you’re down) depends on your work ethic. When your work ethic is there, when you pay attention to details, you think that you might have a chance. But it was pretty tough because I didn’t like our effort tonight.”
• “This was a bad game for us.”

Captain Brian Gionta:

• “There’s no secret it was a period we weren’t ready for, made mistakes we shouldn’t be making.  We’ve had slow starts. I don’t know if it’s preparation. Once we were in a hole, we seemed to make a push, but [we’ve] got to start that right from the start. We need to be desperate off the bat.”

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock:

• “We were checking. Four of our five goals were because we were checking people off the puck. I think this had a resemblance of a team that we envisioned and the way we needed to play.”
• “Our whole team was hard on the puck. We needed to be. We needed to get back to that game and start paying the price and start getting physically involved and that’s what we did. I thought we had heavy sticks; we really were whacking and hacking on loose pucks.”

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