Excerpt from the TSN game preview:
The Montreal Canadiens will try to get their woeful power play back on track tonight when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes tonight.
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After owning the league’s best power play last season, the Canadiens have struggled hard in 2008-09. They rank near the bottom of the NHL in percentage (14.6), scoring two goals in their last 36 chances and going 0-for-10 in a 3-2 shootout win at St. Louis on Sunday.
Alex Kovalev scored the lone goal in the shootout and Carey Price stopped all three attempts as the Canadiens avoided their first three-game losing streak of the season.
Prior to the win over the Blues, Price was peppered in a 6-1 loss to the Bruins on Thursday and then backup netminder Jaroslav Halak lost 2-1 to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.
Price will start in goal again tonight.
The Habs are averaging 2.5 goals during a 2-3-1 stretch after posting 3.5 per game in a season-opening 8-1-1 run.