CANADIENS
Montreal

1-3

SHARKS
San Jose

Lineup

Forward lines and defense pairings 

[one_half]Tatar – Danault – Gallagher
Drouin – Domi – Shaw
Byron – Kotkaniemi – Lehkonen
Agostino – Chaput – Deslauriers
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[one_half_last]Kulak – Weber
Schlemko – Petry
Reilly – Benn

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Goaltenders

Price
Niemi

Scratches

Hudon, Peca, Ouellet

Injuries

Armia, Juulsen

Game Report 

Rarely does Carey Price play both games of a weekend back-to-back, but he did tonight. And the Canadiens are very fortunate that he did. The desperate Sharks dominated the first period but Price kept his team in the game.

While, once again, the Habs had 40+ shots in a game, it was San Jose who had more high-danger scoring chances. Price’s outstanding saves in the second period on Evander Kane and Marcus Sorensen kept the score from getting out of hand.

Special teams were once again a losing battle for Montreal. The power-play had another 0-for night as they remain 30th with the man advantage. The bulk of the power-play minutes did not go to leading scorer Max Domi nor to Brendan Gallagher, Tomas Tatar or Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

Top three #Habs forwards in terms of power-play time: Drouin (2:14) Shaw (2:09) Agostino (2:02)#GoHabsGo @RocketSports

— All Habs (@AllHabs) December 3, 2018

And Montreal’s penalty-kill now finds itself ranked 18th in the league after the Sharks scored on a 5-on-3 advantage with Mike Reilly and Michael Chaput in the penalty box.

The Canadiens have won just once in their last seven games.

Up next is a home-and-home series against the Ottawa Senators starting on Tuesday.

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▲  Carey Price, Shea Weber

▼  Nicolas Deslauriers, Kenny Agostino, Brett Kulak, Michael Chaput, David Schlemko, Jordie Benn

1. Joe Pavelski  SJS
2. Martin Jones  SJS
3. Andrew Shaw  MTL

• “You have to learn from these kinds of games, even if I found that we played well in the second and third periods. We can’t start games like that and think we’re going to win.”
• “We’re still a young team that’s still trying to improve. Learning to win is part of the development for a young team.”

Shea Weber

• “We got behind. Obviously they jumped out of the gates. We talked about it yesterday: we can’t be chasing all the time. It’s alright once in awhile, but it’s been a little bit too much lately.”
• “They came out, they were better in the first, they were quicker to pucks and they did a better job of drawing penalties. They were able to get two goals early.”

Max Domi

• “I think the best penalty kill is to stay out of the box. You can’t give a team with that many veterans two 5-on-3 opportunities. That’s tough to kill – tough on our penalty killers, tough on our D and tough on Pricey too.”

Phillip Danault

• “Those two goals at the start hurt us; they cost us the game. Price was solid. He made some big saves to help us out. We got some momentum back in the third period, but it wasn’t enough.”

Jeff Petry

• “[The first goal] is on me, it was my fault. I kind of hesitated and the defenceman read the play. I took an extra split-second and he read it and stepped in front. When I looked at it, I guess I should have chipped it into the neutral zone, played it safe.”

Sharks goaltender Martin Jones

• “We did a great job of eliminating those Grade-A chances and those odd-man rushes that have been causing us some problems. It was much better tonight.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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