Montreal Canadiens vs. Carolina Hurricanes

Musings and In-Game Scribbles

My English is as good as yours, I just write these in a stream-of-consciousness mode that I insist excuses me from small things like rules of grammar or general etiquette. Let’s call it conversational English, hopped up on beans. You know what kind of beans (no, Carl Mellesmoen, not the magic ones).

Montreal Canadiens (7-7-3) host Carolina Hurricanes (5-8-3)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Game Eighteen (score posted following scribbles)

Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. A written transcript typed during the game, posted and edited about thirty minutes afterward.  Based on the RDS French telecast of the Montreal Canadiens game, Musings take about 20 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with morning coffee. Or late-night chocolate.  A unique way to re-experience the game.

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Alain Crete suggests that Carolina Hurricane forward Eric Staal has struggled since the departure of long-time teammate Erik Cole (to Montreal).  Staal has four goals and four assists but is at minus eighteen (plus-minus ratio; goals for and against when said player is on the ice).

Et vos Canadiens?  Two games in two nights.  Four in six this week.  Benoit Brunet has done some unexpected research to prepare for his big desk speech.  He cites the flagging Montreal power-play and mentions departed Mark Streit, Sheldon Souray, James Wisniewski and Mathieu Schneider as scoring defencemen the team no longer has in reserve.  The reason we’re talking about missing defensive scoring, missing power-play magic, blue line quarterback Andrei Markov, spoke with reporters yesterday.  Brunet mentions this as well and the two suited men beside him smile.  Elegant Alain Crete and newcomer and former Canadien captain Vincent Damphousse.

Cam Ward and Carey Price are the goalies.  Marc Joannette and Chris Rooney are the refs.

First Period

Forward Michael Cammalleri is back from injury.  Lanky defenceman Frederic St. Denis plays his first game with the team tonight.  Ever.  Hal Gill is out.

Eric Staal and Chad Larose are on first with Brendan Sutter.  Slick centre David Desharnais, Erik Cole and smirking Max Pacioretty are on first for Montreal.

Best trio last game, says colour man Marc Denis.  Tomas Plekanec line follows.  Captain Brian Gionta and Travis Moen with him.  Josh Gorges and Raphael Diaz low.

Plekanec through two.  Wing pass.  Moen under the end line.  Ladles it.  Loses it.  Has it again.  Backhand to a trailing Gionta, pass to the muzzle and Ward, low, blots all light.  Always Ward.  I shake my head.  Oh six.  We were up.  And then Ward replaced the other guy.  Gerber.

Young Aaron Palushaj.  Chases with a minimum of effort.  Or was that Eller.

Spokane native Patrick Dwyer trundles along the right boards for Carolina.

Petteri Nokelainen line is on.  Gomez on one wing and Darche the other.  Gomez to the net.  To the boards.  At the left hash deep but the puck is out.

Jiri Tlusty hits the boards hard.  Houde says that they will let Yannick Weber go this time.  Under the Montreal end line.  Another near-Montreal penalty preceded this.  Habs are out.  And then across offside.  Weber’s hit on Tlusty is shown.  Could have been called.  Probably should have been.  Weber leveled Tlusty and the forward fell heavily into the boards.  One arm high for Weber.  Tlusty was off-balance.

Call em.

Plekanec line.

Markov’s injury is shown.

Twice.  The second time is a bit more painful to watch.  Gloves lost, knee bent and into the corner of the rink.  And a reinjury of the same knee.  Soon to return.  Permanently, all hope.  Most?

Deep left.

Gionta follows it into the boards and holds his man into the boards but the puck is gone.

Four minutes. Gone.

Gorges breaks his stick on a keep-in effort.  The puck goes into Carolina ice but the Canadiens were changing lines and moments later the puck is out of play.  Centre ice faceoff.  Former Leave Alexei Ponikarovsky is shown.  He wears number twenty-three.  Does the former Leaf.  Sportscaster phrase.  Signage.  Price point.  You know.

The dictionary is a welcoming tome.

Montreal ice.  Eller.  Trips a forward.

Called.

Is it true that Montreal head coach Jacques Martin is harder on his youngsters than the vets?  It’s worth considering.

Taking it easy on vets in public is a good way to lengthen one’s tenure.  Is it admirable?  I don’t know.  Understandable?  Yes.  The NHL needs a coaches’ union.

Carolina power.

Carolina is one of the worst power-play units in the game today and we see why.  They’re unable to set up for one.  Takes them eighty seconds to establish a first segment.

Montreal closes with a two-man exit to close the penalty and Plekanec waits and then serves Cammalleri from his old sweet spot (just inside the low part of his offwing circle).  And it’s in. Michael Cammalleri.  Our Man from Richmond Hill.

Montreal 1, Carolina 0

Long Diaz pass is off a stick and into Carolina possession.  Larose down the right.  Grills it around the boards.  Price interferes with it behind the net.  Habs are out. Desharnais.  Two others.  Passes.  Traffic.  They turn and move towards the Montreal goal.  Whistle.

St. Denis.  The new kid.  Number sixty-two.  Defenceman.  Movember.  And a good effort says Houde, as the young lanky fella dove to the ice to sweep his stick at a forward.  Tripping.

Carolina power-play.

I shouldn’t be worried.  Ok.  I’m not.

Skinner is on the ice at the circle.  Staal at the net.  He can only watch as the puck escapes his teammates at the opposite hash.  They reset.

Ruutu to Skinner, into the slot.  Apple of a chance.  Wide.  Point-blank.

Rushed it a bit?

They keep it in.

Canes’ Jamie McBain shoots into bodies from the blue.

Hurricanes change units.  Canadiens are able to clear.

One last entry.

Price is pads flush with the ice and low.  Watching, the peer of a gangster cobra.  Puck doesn’t come.

Turnover in mid-ice.  Cole and Pacioretty are teeth bared into the ice.  Diaz follows up with a long shot.

Larose sends it from the centre line and it’s called for icing.

Pacioretty and Cole combined for a long shot that bounced up high and landed unluckily.  (Ed note: Tense change.  Must have gotten behind the play.)

Faceoff deep left.  Cammalleri.  Quickly turns and passes to the blue.  Shot.  And smothered. Now a TV timeout.  Allows Ward to tilt back his mask and head to the bench.

Gomez.  Deep right.  Bent over, waiting.  Cammalleri cheats into the circle.  Gets away with it. Has it.  Leaves it for Gomez.  Lost at the hash.

Under eight.

Gleason behind his net.  They turn like human jets and they’re off.  Peeling off and flying forward.  But a turnover ends it and the Canadiens are into Carolina ice.

Gionta to the net.  Ward low.  Canes are standing around.  Move your feet.

Cane defender Tomas Kaberle mouths the words “come on”.

Six former “Torontoise”.   Maurice was the Leaf coach not too long ago.  He’s back for his second stint with Carolina.  That’s how they say Torontonian in French.

Cole.  Right side.  Three with him.  Gorges has it at the upper corner of this square of red jerseys.  . Possession results in no sear or fear.

Cole is savvy.  And this is first game against his old mates.  Price point?  Moving forward?  Up to speed?  Boil an ocean?  (Yes, boil an ocean.  Found that one today.)

But.  Old mates.  This is a Hardy Boys special.  In red.  And I’m olive-skinned.

Young men bump and lean.  Subban.  And another pause.

Gorges tells Bryan Allen, “You’re fucked up”.  Shakes his head.  Stays there.  Allen has some words and a bump in return.  Goading.  Is Gorges going to get into a fight?  I hope not.

Reseau goes to a commercial.

And I ponder ketchup as a key part of my life.  It was.  Once.

Cunneyworth and Denis on the carpet.

Cunneyworth is talking on.  Fine, fine.  I’m sure he’s a sweet bloke.

Houde sums up; better record at home is needed.  Dackord.

Palushaj also has a Movember.  And his mouth is open as he waits for the faceoff.

Darche and Allen lock arms on the end boards.  Allen is called.  Maurice is looking thin.  Up top.

Montreal power.

Plekanec on the blue.

Puck is out of play.

Another deep right.  Desharnais wins it.

Cole at the phone booth.  Advances.  Fires.  Wide.

Pacioretty fires from the circle dot.

Weber is open.  They find him.  From the opposite circle.  Offwing shot.  No chance.  One-timer into the open gulf.  His third power-play goal of the season.

Two goals.  This time it stands.

Montreal 2, Carolina 0

Hurricanes respond with lethargy and appear short a man.

Skinner is over the line.  Subban’s stick hits Skinner.  How did that not get called?

Another missed call.

Was it an accident?  So what.

Emelin.  From Diaz.  To Gomez.  And lost on crossing.

Habs are relaxed against this loose netting.  Gleason’s half-hearted shot attempt is easily blocked.  (Images of Whalers past; would they approve?)

Pour it on.  Two on one.  Palushaj’s shot is high.

Two and thirty.  And a winning team, a killer team, would bury the Canes right now.

Darche. On.

Nokelainen.

Just skate and the rest will fall into place.

But the men are different (new line, more responsible line) and the Canes are safe for the moment.

Cole.  Over the blue.  Winds big and blasts hard with a defender watching.

Subban’s stick is shown.  The replay.  Subban had his what me expression?  The other one.  The “he’s exaggerating“ maw.  Hard to tell if Skinner was elaborating.

Another offside entry.  Cole.  One, one, one.

Or 1:11 if you prefer.

Faceoff outside the zone.  Gionta is chasing.  Bumps his man but the butt and back are too big and he watches it leave.

Another stoppage.

Canes win it.

Cleared in.  Subban and Skinner, crossing sticks low in the corner to Price’s right.  .  Out it goes.

Long pass by Kaberle is into Jokinen’s skates crossing the neutral zone.  Wasn’t expecting it.

More punk mungling.  And the period ends.

Habs led on shots 16-4.

First Period
Montreal 2, Carolina 0

Some lockout talk.  The NFL.  The NBA.  Brunet catches an error in the stats he was handed.  Weber’s goal was noted as a regular time goal.  It came in the man-advantage, of course.

Second Period
Montreal 2, Carolina 0

The opening minutes see an increase in Montreal pressure and a slow tilting of the ice.  The quality chance arrives with three minutes gone.  Eller from the circle dot and Cam Ward is the only guy who can save the team.  He won’t be able to.  Too much individual play from Carolina tonight.  They lack cohesion and they are off.  Kilter.

Long puck.  Montreal icing.

Skinner is good enough on his own to get a goal.  But he has no support.

Staal is looking lost.

On the Montreal side, Gomez is getting his starch back.  That streak of aluminum causes some Carolina outrage to close a sequence.  A helmet bumps off and all four officials lift and pull angry muscle and heated jerseys.

It’s itchy work.  No fights.

Ward stops a Gionta shot from the slot.  Snuck it in between a Carolina defender’s legs.

Four minutes gone.

Brent sent in by Ponikarovsky.

Shot is wide.

Gomez and Moen on a two-on-one.  Another.  Carolina is not playing well in the neutral zone.

Letting guys go.  They get back and set up and that saves this sequence.

Nokelainen.  Larose.  Staal supports on the deep right.  Out on the other side.

Pace increases.

Diaz out from his net’s shadow.  Chased.  Tangled with.  Rerouted.  Staal with some good forechecking.  Waking up.  Crowd moxie increases in response to the tension level.

Fourteen.

Desharnais.  Floats to the net, danger, danger.  Hammerhead shark.

Subban. Takes a pass in the high slot.  Advances.  Wrists it.  Scores his first.  Past the right side.  Leaps into the glass.  Houde says that he’s glad Subban has kept the leap into the glass.  Houde says that all the Packer fans understand this kind of gesture.  Houde laughs encouragingly.  Denis allows the fun to seep in and his baritone laugh is welcome.

Montreal 3, Carolina 0

Yes.

Add exclamation point.

Diaz tries a long pass.  Off a stick.  Moen’s.  Prior to the red line.  So, icing.

Martin wanders over to say something to assistant coach Randy Ladouceur.  Ladouceur nods in agreement and leans over to his side of the bench.  Martin wanders back to the other side of the bench.  I need a bench cam.

Cane entry.  Offside.  Brendan Sutter was unable to clear the zone.

Cane ice-boss Paul Maurice doesn’t look as worried as I thought he might.  Has he mellowed?  Chewing his gum, the Alton Brown of the NHL accommodatingly looks over his peeps and onto the ice surface.  Split screen shows your buddy Martin.  Embattled.  Criticized.  And maybe still the right coach for this team.

Since 2010-11, Cam Ward has played the most games in the NHL.  For a goalie.  The number 89.  Price is second at 87.

Faceoff at centre ice.  Plekanec and Jokinen.

Plekanec wins it.

Subban has it low.  Across for Gorges.

Cleared in.

Kaberle.  Harrison.  Skinner’s pass compromises the defensive and the Habs are creating problems again.  Gionta ends this sequence with a turning wrister in the slot.  Covered.  And wide.

Stoppage.

Houde and Denis talk about the generations of Sutters in this league.  Just as the Kennedys are revered in the States, so are the Sutters revered in this league.

By some.

Six Sutter brothers played in the league.  From the same generation.  Brent.  Duane.  Daryl.  Three others.  They’re from Viking Alberta.  Grow up Canadian in the seventies and you’ll have heard this hundreds of times.  Especially if you had a subscription to Hockey Digest.

Hmmm.  What else did I learn?

Bobby Orr is the greatest defenceman who ever played.  Shooting is the best strategy.  Goalies are the most important players on the ice.

Yup.  Uh-huh.

Nine.

Kaberle zips one along he left-side boards after the faceoff is won by Carolina.  Tonight is Eller’s 100th NHL game.  Ian Schultz is also mentioned.  Both he and Eller came over from St. Louis Blues for Jaroslav Halak.  The inferno trade.  But we all seem ok now.

Shots on goal are now at 23-6, Montreal.  Houde raises his eyebrows as he says it.  We can hear that, you know.

Cammalleri.  Quick like a camera.  Under the end line.  Leaves it.  Pass.  Long puck.  Icing.

Houde says that Cammalleri is not fully back form the injury.  Suggests that perhaps not all his confidence is back, either, as a result.  Fear of contact, perhaps.

Canes finally get some control but it’s only because Cammalleri left the ice to replace his stick.  He’s back and diving ahead to bump a puck into Carolina ice.

Staal is looking despondent, disgusted, unhappy and a bit under the weather.  And as if he’s lost weight.  He gives a small mild shake of his head to an unseen teammate.  It’s a much smaller, more weighed-down gesture than his usual.  All is not well in Carolina.  And I get curious.

Six and a half.

The surly Eric Staal is the Carolina captain.  But his naming, another of those youth-serving, granted-captain gestures, calls into question the leadership in the team.  And its philosophy.  Who made that decision?  Captains should be mature.  Not young scoring (or pretend) phenoms.  Staal’s best season is an impressive 43-goal season.  He’s hard work.  Not skill.  Watch him skate.  Watch his stick-handling.

Bryan Allen and Alexei Ponikarovsky are the oldest players on this team (aside from goalie Brian Boucher) and none of the three are ideal leadership material.  Erik Cole is gone.  Brind Amour is long gone (where’s that apostrophe go again?).  Recchi?  Gone.  And unlovable Doug Weight, also long gone.

Eric Staal is 27.  Good luck with all of that.

There’s always glowing Hockey News write-ups, though.  (There are always, if you prefer)

Do write-ups win Stanley Cups?

Five and a half.

Eller with a long shot.  Ward is low and trapping.  Held for the faceoff.  Gomez puts an avuncular arm around Eller and generates kid-glee smile.  Nice moment.  It was on the ice and presumably after that last shot.

Eller.  Right side.  Stickhandles in front of his man and then shoots. Misses the net.  Trying to place it.

Staal.  Left side.  Long shot wide.

His effort lasts long enough for another shot-pass attempt but when the puck is lost, he gives up and watches.  The great Eric Staal.  Fair weather player?  Pouting self-man?  You decide.

Staal is a player whose sense of entitlement and general demeanour smacks of an overblown sense of his own abilities.  At his best, he’s hard-working, effective and has a nose for the net.  But you can have him.  He’s anointed and blameless.  Another product of the flawed Ontario hockey culture.  It produces players of hubris.  And some exceptions.

Price faces his first real shot.  Long one from the blue.  Pad low right.  Easy stop for Price.

Replay shows Plekanec heading to the bench in pain.  Grimacing.  Leaning over.  Still on the bench.

Subban, uses size and strength to legally force his opponent to the ice behind the Montreal net.

On the other end.  Subban with a long shot.  From mid-ice.  Puck caroms about.  Shot.  Off the end boards.  Moen to the crease.  Off a pad.  Ward’s and into the net.  Fluke goal.

The crowd is as loud as for the other kind of goal.

Montreal 4, Carolina 0

Two on one close the period.  Gionta.  Offwing.  Keeps.  Shoots.  Ward stops it.

(From the side of the net.  Short side.  Off his leg pad.  The fourth goal.)

Habs led 17-8 on shots.

Second Intermission
Montreal 4, Carolina 0

Why must I apologize?  Pardon?  Quoi?  What?

What?

Sorry.

Alain suggest that Cam Ward was weak on all four goals and highlights the fourth.  Damphousse says that the veterans on the team lack life tonight.  Mentions Staal.

I guess Kaberle is 33.  But he hasn’t been on the team long enough to assert himself, perhaps.  He’s not a force-himself-on-you kind of guy, anyway.

Like, say … Staal.

Lack character?  Don’t take the C.  Oh, wait.  Guys who lack character would never consider turning the C down.  Now would they?

Alain’s voice cracks on the words hockey experts.  On retour a la studio de hockey experts.

The NHL power people are shown (Sather, Gauthier, some others) some footage from the most recent GMs meeting and the Lucic hit is discussed again.  Campoli is mentioned as well.  Neither hit resulted in suspension.  Brunet jokes about the committee and earns real laughs from Damphousse and Crete.

The big lead has allowed the coaching staff to reduce Gorges and Subban’s minutes.

Third Period
Montreal 4, Carolina 0

It’s certainly possible to lose this game.  Four goals in one period.  No problem if your opponent sits back and relaxes.  Lets’ see how many Canadiens are of this mind.

Canes show some interest in the on-ice activities.  Canadiens are all skating and keep the puck at the perimeter.  Ponikarovsky.  Finds Staal, a big swath of ice.  Big blast from the blue.  Wide.

Staal.  Whatever.

Denis says some nice things about Staal.  Minus one tonight.  Minus eighteen total, second-worst in the NHL.  Not the norm says Houde.  Not at all, agrees Denis.

Unhappy players who lack character let it show in their stats.  Spezza comes to mind.  Didn’t want to backcheck for Cory Clouston.  The effort returned once he got a coach he decided he could like.  Now what’s the deal with your buddy Staal?

En Francais?  Manque de charactere.

High stick.  Ruutu.  Accidental.  Cammalleri took it in the face.

Montreal power.

Deep left.  Won.  Weber on the left point.  Across to Plekanec.  Desharnais at the phone booth.  To the end line for Pacioretty.  Weber finally shoots.  A second shot.  Both are stopped.

Desharnais is called for a high stick.  No contact.  Gleason faked it.  Called anyway.  Houde calls it un geste theatrale.  He’s got experience says Houde.  The tone is neither condemnatory nor conciliatory.

<Insert condemnation>

Another stoppage.  Too many men?

Two Canes point it out.  And it’s called.  Gomez takes a seat and talks it over with Desharnais.  Desharnais shrugs and raises a brief eyebrow.

Four on three.

Carolina.

Staal.  Certain goal.  Stopped.  How?

Wow.

Staal is one tall forward, boy.

Six four.

How did that not go in?

Staal again after a reset.

Turning.  Using the space.  Cruising around.  He thinks he’s Gretzky.  He’s not.

Why let him skate about with impunity?  Does his stick buy him a bubble?

Like Howe’s elbows.

Subban is tripped by Ruutu on a puck –clear.  Called.

“What was that save.  What was that.  What was that save?”  Subban talking with Price after the whistle.  We can’t see Price’s face.

Yeah.  What was that.  Wow.

Four on four again.

Quality de deplacement.  Son vision.  Denis is praising Price.  When do we see the replay?

More cameras.  We should be able to see multiple angles simultaneously.  And under our control.  I’ll say it again.

Five on four now.  For over a minute.

Cammalleri.  Too much Hollywood.  Falls.  Puck leaves the zone.

Cammalleri with a sudden shot.  Puck appeared in the slot.  Bounce, bounce, slip and sliver.  And there it was.  Right into Ward.

Who cradles it for the faceoff.

Habs win the draw.  To the point.  But out.

Subban.  One man back.  Two in front of him.  He extends the stick and takes it away.  Very nice.  Subban.  And Price.  Young stars to shine.  For a long time.

An interesting duo.

Price is from BC, likes the cowboy scene.  Subban is from Toronto, is Afro-Canadian and has a chocolate bar personality.  Ovie type.  Fun.  Super-talented.  As is Price.  The thoroughbred, as Gainey reminded us.

Frederic St. Denis.  Two accents aigue.  The new defenceman.  He’s on the bench.  Still has his moustache.

No Samsonov, either.

McBain intercepts a pass.  Gives a return.  Rebound is there, the V rebound, but no shot.

A shutout would be a nice lego addition.  Cherries, pies, and all that.

Lots of red on the ice, eh.

Roch Voisine is featured on the boards.  He’ll be in the Bell on November 25th, I assume.  That’s what the billboard says.

Eight and a half.

Action rises.  Gaps.  And a Tim Brent shot off the post.

Price, beaten says Houde.

Brent used Diaz as a screen and shot through the legs.

We should have kept Roman Hamrlik.  But maybe it won’t matter if Markov returns one-hundred percent.  Fine.  I’ll wait and see.  Campoli injury was bad luck.  So was the Spacek injury.  Really, it’s all pretty good all things considered.

Hamrlik and Halpern.  Gone to Washington.  This will not be the last time I rue their respective off-season departures.

The team has been winning without Markov for years, it seems.  That’s a lot of money to have tied up off-ice.  In one player.  The Canadiens’ best player if some superstar scribes are to be believed.  I’m not saying anything either way.

I’m not qualified.

Guy Carbonneau and PJ Stock are back on Ante-Chambre tonight.  With Michel Bergeron and Gaston Therrien.

The Ole Ole chant fills the air for a few seconds.

I’m starting to feel normal again.  Whatever that might be.

As if I can actually watch the game and understands what’s going on.  And not be distracted by outside events.

Moen kabooms Allen into the boards.  Some back and forth preceded.  Crowd loves it.  No call.

Finally, in Montreal ice, a whistle.

Martin doesn’t like it.  Shakes his head and mutters to himself.  Allows brief cut-eye for the offending official.

Commercial.

Garbage voices for garbage products.

Next.

Irritation is a luxury.

Next.

Change?  No.  I don’t recommend it.  Unless it’s necessary.

I can take it under advisement.  Uh.  He’s not straight.  What.  What.  I do.

Carolina power-play.

Frederic St. Denis was called.

Nokelainen and Gionta.  Gorges shovel-loft hits Gionta on the way up.  Ouch.  He checks his skull and finding it there, continues action.  The captain.

Price mishandles one from his back boards, ropes it in with a quick snake-tongue and then launches it.  He’s had some compliments in recent times.  On his puck-handling.  A montage after last game and a comparison to Martin Brodeur.  Lavish.

Brodeur is one of the best puck-handling goalies in league history.  Yes.  That good.  The comparison?  Well, lets’ see how it all goes, eh?

Two and a half.

Shutout?

I think I want this one as much as some other folks might.  Yes.  Yes, I think I do.

Alberta theorem.  Losing a game?  Start a fight at the end.  Applied to both Calgary and Edmonton for decades. Pacioretty and Brent exchange sticks, spears, animosity and then some gloves fly.  No real fight, just some angry hugging.

Both leave the ice.  Tim Brent.  Cambridge, Canada.  How much shall we bet that this is in Ontario?

Count em sometime.  Every time someone talks back, initiates or whatever you deem ugly hockey.  Check where the kid was raised and where he played minor.  Do it for three years.  Track it in a notepad.  Or wherever works.  And then you can decide for yourself.

Shameful.

Ninety seconds.

Shutout.

Seventy seconds.

Deep Montreal ice.  Eller. Gomez.

St. Denis blocks a shot, body to the ice late and low.

Eller is going to be called.

Denis says that the Hurricanes are frustrated.  Eller says “fuck” as he is asked to leave his bench area.  Sticks and gloves got high.  Legit.

Sixth power-play for Carolina.  Forty-three seconds.

Plekanec wins it.

Gorges.  Around.  Cleared.

Kaberle sends it in.  Price gets it.  Risks a long one through legs and sticks.  Canes have pulled their goalie.  Price’s puck sails down the left side, no danger of going in.
Back in.  One more segment.

They trap, trick and reach.  But Price, low and then peering, high and bending, will get the egg.

Siren.

Shutout.

Canadiens win.  No further animosity.

St. Denis is happy.

Price has his one great save.  And Subban with the low fives.

Final Score
Montreal Canadiens 4
Carolina Hurricanes 0

HDS Stars: Lars Eller, Yannick Weber, Carey Price
RDS Stars: Carey Price, Tomas Plekanec, PK Subban

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