Montreal Canadiens Highlights and Analysis: Habs vs Coyotes

A recap of the Montreal Canadiens game versus the Arizona Coyotes

The Montreal Canadiens fans warmly welcomed back Carey Price tonight who made his debut after being out with the flu. The Canadiens went on to dominate the Coyotes from start to finish in this game. The Habs out shot the Coyotes 43-29 in the game en route to their 3rd win in 4 games.

Carey Price preformed very well in his season debut for the Habs. He kicked aside 27 of 29 shots and showed no signs of rust after missing his first 3 games. This was great to see because the Canadiens will need Price healthy if they are going to make a deep run this season.

Many Canadiens played well tonight, however, Shea Weber had a monster game. Weber scored his first goal with the Montreal Canadiens on a Power Play during the second period and also added an assist.  Weber added 3 hits, 4 blocked shots, 4 shots on goal, was a plus 3, and recorded 25:28 of ice time.

Tomas Plekanec and Paul Byron each had multi point games as they each had a pair of assists tonight. Brendan Gallagher also had a strong game assisting on Alex Galchenyuk‘s beautiful toe drag goal in the 2nd period.

1st Period

Alexei Emelin opened the scoring  in the game recording his first goal of the season. David Desharnais skated the puck out the corner and found Paul Byron who passed it over to Emelin. Then Emelin skated to the top of the circle and blasted a slap shot through a screen that went by Domingue.

Habs Lead 1-0

2nd Period

Nathan Beaulieu made an incredible individual effort coming into the Coyotes zone. Beaulieu was checked and knocked down but he somehow never lost control of the puck. Beaulieu was then able to get up and feed Torrey Mitchell who wired home for his 2nd of the year.

Habs Lead 2-0

On a Habs Power Play Shea Weber was able to blast his hard slap shot by Domingue. Andrei Markov dished a soft pass right in Shea’s wheel house to set up the goal. Plekanec also added an assist on the play.

Habs Lead 3-0

Alex Galchenyuk entered in to the Arizona zone, toe dragged around a defender scoring a brilliant goal using a wrist shot. On that same shift Galchenyuk was able to make a nice play to break up a Coyotes rush and than skated back up the ice for the goal. Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty added the assists on the play.

Habs Lead 4-0

The Arizona Coyotes got on the board on a scramble around the Canadiens net. Mikhail Sergachev coughed up the puck in his own end which lead to the scoring chance and eventual goal. Jakob Chychrun recorded his career NHL goal on the play.

Habs Lead 4-1

Nathan Beaulieu skated around his own net not seeing Laurent Dauphin who checked Beaulieu in front of Price. Beaulieu turned the puck over right in front of the net. Price was able to make the first point blank save on Brad Richardson however, Dauphin was able to tapped in the rebound cutting the Habs lead in half.

3rd Period

At 12:38 Artturi Lehkonen found some open space in the slot as the puck bounced to him from the corner. Lehkonen fired a wrist shot through Peters for his 2nd goal of the season. Tomas Plekanec swiped at a lose puck in the corner which came right to Lehkonen to set up the goal.

Habs Win  5-2!!

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3 Stars

In our last Habs recap we explained how we will be recording the star points for the year. If you have a different opinion of the 3 stars let us know in the comments section. Your votes can effect our weekly 3 stars article at the end of the week.

1st Star- Shea Weber- 1 goal, 1 assist, 3 hits, 4 blocked shots, 4 shots on goal, plus 3.

2nd Star- Carey Price- 27 saves.

3rd Star- Tomas Plekanec- 2 assists.

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