RECAP | Kings – Canadiens: Habs Pad Shot Total, Can’t Finish

Rick Stephens

October 11, 2018

FINAL \| Game 3, Home Game 1 \| Thursday October 11, 2018 Bell Centre, Montreal, QC.
CANADIENS Montreal	0-3	KINGS Los Angeles

Lineup Forward lines and defense pairings [one_half]Tatar – Danault – Gallagher Drouin – Kotkaniemi – Armia Byron – Domi – Lehkonen Hudon – Peca – Shaw [/one_half] [one_half_last]Mete – Petry Reilly – Juulsen Benn – Ouellet [/one_half_last] Goaltenders Price Niemi Scratches Alzner, Scherbak, Plekanec Injuries Weber, Schlemko, De la Rose, Deslauriers Game Report Tonight the new system looked a whole lot like the old system. Last season we got used to seeing the Canadiens outshoot their opponents but experience a great deal of difficulty scoring. Fire everything from the perimeter and be porous defensively. That is exactly what Bell Centre fans were ‘treated’ to for the Canadiens home opener. Kings goaltender Jack Campbell had a rather routine outing for his first NHL shutout. The Canadiens were not going to the dirty areas of the ice and got very little traffic in front of Campbell. Jonathan Drouin once again tried to put on a solo performance. On the back end, Noah Juulsen was the only defender to have a solid game. Xavier Ouellet, Jordie Benn, Mike Reilly and Jeff Petry all struggled with the Kings bigger forwards. Carey Price was forced to bail out his crew throughout the game. The Canadiens power-play failures proved to be the difference in the game with just two shots on goal to show for three consecutive opportunities towards the end of the second period. === ▲ Carey Price, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Noah Juulsen ▼ Jonathan Drouin, Matthew Peca, Xavier Ouellet, Jordie Benn, Mike Reilly, Jeff Petry, Phillip Danault

Statistics
CANADIENS		KINGS
40	Shots	29
38	Face-offs	62
0-for-4	Power Play	0-for-3
16	Penalty Minutes	8
36	Hits	24
73	Corsi For	41

Scoring

FINAL	1	2	3	OT	SO	T
Canadiens (1-1-1)	0	0	0	–	–	0
Kings (2-1-1)	2	0	1	–	–	3

Scorers	Goalies
MTL: no scoring LAK: Kempe (1), Amadio (1), Carter (1)	MTL: Price (L) 1-1-1 LAK: Campbell (W) 2-1-0

NHL Three Stars
	Jack Campbell LAK Jeff Carter LAK Noah Juulsen MTL

Video Highlights

Post-game Press Conference

Claude Julien

“We were rusty tonight.”

Andrew Shaw

“Well, there’s a lot of history here, but the 93’s, you know they had a great team. [Kirk Muller] has told us some stories about them. I think it was pretty cool for them tonight to have that, but nobody wants to celebrate 25 years of not winning.”

Max Domi

“We’ll learn from it and move forward. We’ll get back to work at practice tomorrow and get ready to go for Saturday night.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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