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RECAP | Lightning – Canadiens: Habs Fail to Sustain Start

Rick Stephens

Montreal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning Game Recap: Habs Line-up, Score, Statistics, Highlights, Post-game Interviews, NHL Three-Stars

FINAL | Game 6, Home Game 3 | Tuesday October 15, 2019
Bell Centre, Montreal, QC

CANADIENS

Montreal

1-3

LIGHTNING

Tampa Bay
Mikhail Sergachev, Jonathan Drouin (Photo by Jean-Yves Ahern/ USA Today Sports)

Canadiens Lineup

Forward lines

Tomas Tatar – Phillip Danault – Brendan Gallagher

Artturi Lehkonen – Max Domi – Jordan Weal

Jonathan Drouin – Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Joel Armia

Paul Byron  – Nate Thompson –  Nick Suzuki

Defence pairings

Victor Mete – Shea Weber

Brett Kulak – Jeff Petry

Ben Chiarot – Christian Folin

Goaltenders

Carey Price – Keith Kinkaid

Scratches

Mike Reilly, Cale Fleury

Injuries

Nick Cousins

Game Report

The Montreal Canadiens played well for most of the first period. They, too, had the upper hand for portions of the third period.

But for a team with marginal talent, and a roster that has large holes left untouched in the off-season, playing pretty well is not good enough. Giving a full effort for half of the game or even two periods is not good enough for Montreal.

And it’s certainly not good enough against a team that won 62 of 82 games last season.

For almost 10 minutes the Canadiens, stopped skating, stopped working and did a lot of watching. During that time, Montreal did not register a single shot. In that time span, Tampa Bay scored three times.

The Lightning goals all came from prime scoring positions. Two of the goals deflected off the sticks of Canadiens. One of the goals came on Tampa’s only power-play.

The Habs fourth line was dominated. Montreal’s much heralded third line was chewed up and spit out. Claude Julien broke out the line mixmaster for the third period.

Last week, Jeff Petry said that this team picked up a couple of wins without playing a 60-minute game. The head coach said that the Canadiens were digging holes for themselves. Tonight, Julien said that the loss was self inflicted.

Coach Julien went on to explain that his forwards didn’t kill the play when they had possession and did not clear the puck when they had a chance. Bad line changes, getting trapped on the ice were also self-inflicted issues.

The Canadiens will practice at Brossard at 11:30 am. on Wednesday in preparation of their next game on Thursday against the Wild.

Plus / Minus

▲  Brendan Gallagher, Artturi Lehkonen, Tomas Tatar, Phillip Danault, Max Domi

▼  Jonathan Drouin, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Jonathan Drouin, Nate Thompson, Paul Byron, Victor Mete, Shea Weber, penalty kill

The Numbers

 Game Statistics 
CANADIENS   LIGHTNING
34 Shots 22
60 Face-off % 40
1-for-5 Power Play 1-for-1
2 Penalty Minutes 10
22 Hits 37
49 Corsi For 39
 Scoring Summary
 FINAL 1 2 3 OT SO T
 Canadiens (2-2-2) 1 0 0 – – 1
 Lightning (3-2-1) 1 2 0 – – 3
Scorers Goalies
  • MTL: Petry (2)-PPG
  • TBL: Coburn (1), Stamkos (4)-PPG, Johnson (2)
  • MTL: Price (L) 2-2-1
  • TBL: Vasilevskiy (W) 4-2-1

Stars of the Game

 NHL Official Three Stars
  1. Steven Stamkos  TBL
  2. Jeff Petry  MTL
  3. Andrei Vasilevskiy  TBL

Watch

 Video Highlights 

What Did They Say?

 Post-game Quotes
Claude Julien  
  • “That one goal there (the first Tampa goal) we had (Jesperi) Kotkaniemi’s line out there. I think at least twice they could have had the puck out as forwards and two, three times they could have killed the play and they didn’t, those guys specifically. So at one point the blame has to be spread around a little bit.”
  • “That line (Drouin – Kotkaniemi – Armia) got both goals scored on it five-on-five and they weren’t very good tonight. Spent two minutes in our own end in the first period, so I had to make some changes. You saw (Jonathan) Drouin move, you saw (Jesperi) Kotkaniemi move and so we tried to kind of again make some changes in order to get our team going. I thought the third period was good but we weren’t able to capitalize on our chances.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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