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RECAP | Canadiens – Hurricanes: Habs Waste A Superb Performance by Price

Rick Stephens

Montreal Canadiens vs Carolina Hurricanes  Game Recap: Line-up, Score, Statistics, Highlights, Post-game, Three-Stars

FINAL (OT) | Game 76, Away Game 38 | Saturday March 23, 2019
Bell Centre, Montreal, QC

CANADIENS

Montreal

1-2

HURRICANES

Carolina
(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Canadiens Lineup

Forward lines

Tomas Tatar – Phillip Danault – Brendan Gallagher

Artturi Lehkonen – Max Domi – Andrew Shaw

Jonathan Drouin – Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Joel Armia

Paul Byron – Nate Thompson – Jordan Weal

Defense pairings

Victor Mete – Shea Weber

Brett Kulak – Jeff Petry

Jordie Benn – Christian Folin

Goaltenders

Carey Price – Antti Niemi

Scratches

Charles Hudon, Nicolas Deslauriers, Dale Weise, Matthew Peca, Mike Reilly, Charlie Lindgren

Injuries

none

Game Report

“It would have been nice to reward [Carey Price] with two points. Obviously he stood on his head and played well for us.” — Shea Weber.

Always understated, the captain was quietly seething. So was Brendan Gallagher as he twice curtly lectured reporters that “there are no moral victories” when asked if he was happy that the Canadiens picked up one point for the overtime loss.

“We had a lead,” added Gallagher.

Montreal’s goal came courtesy of Paul Byron but the fact that they owned a lead at all was 100 per cent due to Carey Price.

The Hurricanes dominated the Habs in the first and third periods. And even in the second, Carolina had several dangerous scoring chances.

Overall shots attempts were 91-47 for Carolina. The Hurricanes had 40 shots on goal, 37 scoring chances and 20 high danger scoring chances.

Carey Price was phenomenal. Price made spectacular saves on Carolina’s snipers. Teuvo Teravainen and Sebastian Aho were stoned by Price on breakaways.

The Canadiens goaltender played shutout hockey for more than 54 minutes, and for a large portion of it, single-handedly. 

Price’s teammates could not hold the lead however. A Trevor van Riemsdyk point shot glanced off Jordie Benn’s knee and it was a tie game.

In overtime, possession is king. Somehow, Phillip Danault forgot this basic tenet of hockey. Then, Jeff Petry forgot too.

And it was over.

A brilliant performance by Price was wasted. A huge opportunity to pick up an important two points was lost. And almost as important, a chance to deny a playoff rival a win was squandered.

The Canadiens have had a good week but this one hurt.

Plus / Minus

▲  Carey Price

▼  Jonathan Drouin, Max Domi

The Numbers

 Game Statistics 
CANADIENS   HURRICANES
29 Shots 40
48 Face-off % 52
0-for-1 Power Play 0-for-3
6 Penalty Minutes 2
29 Hits 37
49 Corsi For 87
 Scoring Summary
 FINAL 1 2 3 OT SO T
 Canadiens (40-28-8) 1 0 0 0 – 1
 Hurricanes (42-26-7) 0 0 1 1 – 2
Scorers Goalies
  • MTL: Byron (15)
  • CAR: van Riemsdyk (3), Svechnikov (20)
  • MTL: Price (OTL) 32-22-6
  • CAR: McElhinney (W) 19-9-2

Stars of the Game

 NHL Official Three Stars
  1. Curtis McEhlhinney  CAR
  2. Andrei Svechnikov  CAR
  3. Trevor van Riemsdyk  CAR

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 Video Highlights 

What Did They Say?

 Post-game Quotes
Claude Julien  
  • “We could see starting in the middle of the second period that we started to feel tired. It showed. Carey gave us a chance with his performance tonight. We tried to hang on, but unfortunately, we only managed to come away with one point.”
  • “We’re disappointed, we came here to win. We needed to protect the house and they ruined it pretty good there.”

Carey Price

  • “We definitely played well. We need points more than confidence right now.”

Hurricanes forward Trevor Van Riemsdyk

  • “Obviously you know you’re playing one of the best goalies in the world, if not the best goalie in the world, so it’s going to take some something a little uglier to beat him.”

Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Armour

  • “It didn’t look like it was going to happen. You’re hoping for one or two or three Grade-A chances in the third and we had more than that. So it was like, if those aren’t going in, what’s going to go in?”
  • “We got the bounce. We’ll definitely take it.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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