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Is Shea Weber’s impact being overlooked on the Montreal Canadiens?

By Omar L

SUNRISE, FL - DECEMBER 28: Tomas Tatar #90 celebrates his second goal of the game with Shea Weber #6, Jonathan Drouin #92, and Brendan Gallagher #11 of the Montreal Canadiens against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on December 28, 2018 in Sunrise, Florida. Montreal defeated Florida 5-3. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)
SUNRISE, FL - DECEMBER 28: Tomas Tatar #90 celebrates his second goal of the game with Shea Weber #6, Jonathan Drouin #92, and Brendan Gallagher #11 of the Montreal Canadiens against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on December 28, 2018 in Sunrise, Florida. Montreal defeated Florida 5-3. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images) /
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MONTREAL, QC – DECEMBER 17: Montreal Canadiens Shea Weber (Photo by Francois Lacasse/NHLI via Getty Images) /

2) If you could fast forward the calendar to April, who would be the ideal opponent for the Montreal Canadiens in the playoffs?

S: Ideally, Montreal would face a team like Ottawa, which would be intense and which we would probably win. However, as this matchup would be extremely unlikely, I’ll focus on a different intense matchup, Boston.

We hate the Bruins, and they hate us, they are arguably our greatest rivals, and a playoff round against them would be so much fun to watch! I think we are evenly matched teams and the series would be intense, fast-paced, heated and loud (think back to when the entire Bell Centre booed the refs against the Sens for the joke embellishment call on Artturi Lehkonen, that noise for 7 straight games). Count me in for that series!

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ZC: This is a tough question to answer. I think just getting into the playoffs would be a massive step forward for Montreal, especially with key pieces for the club still waiting in the wings. Looking at the current playoff teams, I’m not really sure of a team that the Habs match up with well.

That isn’t a fault of Montreal’s; I just think the East is very strong this year. When Montreal uses their speed, they can skate with any team in the NHL. If I had to pick one team though, it’s probably Buffalo, and that seems like a rather unlikely match up. Two teams on the rise and with bright futures would make for a heck of a first-round series.

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