Montreal Canadiens: Goodbye dream land, hello reality
By Omar L
Whether you believed in Bergevin’s hopes or not doesn’t matter anymore, after the Montreal Canadiens lost again last night, we know reality they’re in now.
It was Claude Julien‘s first game back at TD Garden in almost a year. It was set to be a special night full of smiles and remembrance of the past. You’d hope the Montreal Canadiens would do all they could to win this one for Julien considering how the last matchup against the Bruins went. Unfortunately, it went in the opposite direction.
In fact, we can pretty much cross things off on the ‘Bad’ list as we go along. The Jacob de La Rose experiment? Bust. He just couldn’t hack it during the game and made a handful of poor decisions where two of them, both directly and indirectly, led to a goal against.
The backpass turnover in the second period created the odd man rush against resulting in Ryan Spooner sending a puck off Jonathan Drouin to score. Additionally, the Bruins converted the power play opportunity given to them by de La Rose being called for hooking in the third period.
Carey Price? The ‘meh’ emoji. Not because he played poorly, but it’s the same thing for the 30-year-old. Fans almost expect it at this point. Price plays well enough to give the Habs a chance to win and is left hung out to dry. It makes you wonder how things would go for Montreal if he weren’t playing. I don’t take any stock in Price getting pulled, that game was far from being his fault.
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The team as a whole? Thumbs down. The Montreal Canadiens were outplayed. There were moments during the game where they sustained some decent pressure, in particular when Julien placed Drouin back at center with Alex Galchenyuk and Nicolas Deslauriers on the wing, but besides that, it was the Bruins who were dictating play.
If you took any stock in what Marc Bergevin said at that presser, through it out the window along with the Habs’ playoff chances. At this point, there’s no way that they make it.
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