Canadiens Lineup

Cole Caufield – Nick Suzuki – Kirby Dach

Juraj Slafkovsky – Sean Monahan – Josh Anderson

Evgenii Dadonov – Christian Dvorak – Joel Armia

Michael Pezzetta – Jake Evans – Rem Pitlick

Mike Matheson – David Savard

Joel Edmundson – Kaiden Guhle

Arber Xhekaj – Johnathan Kovacevic

Jake Allen – Sam Montembeault

Jordan Harris, Chris Wideman

Carey Price (knee), Paul Byron (hip), Mike Hoffman (upper-body), Jonathan Drouin (upper-body), Brendan Gallagher (lower-body)

Game Report

So much for trying to curtail the league’s best duo in Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. The pair of Edmonton forwards walked away from Saturday night’s game with eight points.

It’s fair to expect that discipline would have been part of the pre-game message to Habs players. The Oilers entered the game riding along at a 27.6 percent success rate with the man advantage. The home side improved that number going three for five on the power-play scoring all three goals in succession in the second period.

The trouble started in the last minute of the first frame with Arber Xhekaj taking a needless tripping call on Connor McDavid. From there it was Joel Edmundson joining the parade to the penalty box with a high-sticking penalty just 42 seconds into the middle stanza. Less than five minutes later, Edmundson was back at it again, this time earning himself a game misconduct after earning a five-minute cross-checking major against Zach Hyman, who was cut on the play.

The Canadiens managed two power-play goals of their own, quite a rare accomplishment this season, but the visitors were no match for the Oilers’ potent machine with the man advantage. Indiscipline was certainly their undoing.

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