3 game titles into the very first round of the NHL playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens are one particular video game down on the Philadelphia Flyers. Empowered by their hairy mascot, Alain Vigneault’s group plays a gritty defence-first style of hockey when they get an early lead like the a single Sunday night time.

It was a discouraging game, wherever Montreal managed to hit the iron a handful of times with no at any time hearing the horn. Patrik Bexell and Anton Rasegård talk about what the decline usually means for the remainder of the collection and why the Habs keep on to strike out on the power engage in time following time.

How really should a team that is centered all around speed and counter-attacks boost their puck possession in game titles this kind of as this, wherever their dump-and-chase sort of hockey doesn’t perform to their benefit? How need to teams efficiently crack down the trap-type 1-3-1 defence that Vigneault enjoys to perform?

Pat and Ant also talk about a couple probable roster improvements following the playoffs. With the surge of a few children, some gamers incapacity to make could imply that their times in a Habs jersey are counted. Does Marc Bergevin have anything up his sleeve for the autumn?

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