Canadiens Lineup

Tyler Toffoli – Nick Suzuki – Joel Armia 

 Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Phillip Danault – Josh Anderson

Artturi Lehkonen – Jake Evans – Cole Caufield

Michael Frolik – Eric Staal – Corey Perry

Ben Chiarot – Alexander Romanov

Joel Edmundson – Jeff Petry

Erik Gustafsson – Jon Merrill 

Jake Allen – Cayden Primeau

Brett Kulak

Xavier Ouellet, Charlie Lindgren, Michael Pezzetta, Joel Teasdale

Brendan Gallagher (hand), Carey Price (concussion), Paul Byron (lower-body), Jonathan Drouin (undisclosed), Tomas Tatar (lower-body), Shea Weber (upper-body)

Game Report

The Canadiens had their legs right from the outset and played one of their better first periods in recent memory. Yet, it was the Jets who led 1-0 at the first intermission. 

Giving up a goal late in the first period and another in the opening two minutes of the second frame typically takes the wind out of a team’s momentum but the Canadiens seemed to be on a mission tonight. And the spark came from some unlikely contributors.

Artturi Lehkonen, Joel Armia and Jake Evans led the way for the Canadiens, each being strong on the forecheck to create extended zone time for their lines. And the Canadiens struggling power-play even scored twice.

Nick Suzuki scored his third goal in the past two games. Suzuki credited a meeting during the intermission for adjustments that made the difference on the power-play.

Cole Caufield was buzzing with two new linemates, Evans and Lehkonen. The Canadiens rookie will have to wait at least one more game for his first goal in the NHL.

It was yet another rough outing for Jake Allen who allowed multiple weak goals. Allen had to reply on his teammates to outscore his mistakes tonight.

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