Montreal Canadiens: In Other News… Even Series, Alzner’s Potential Return

Canadiens Even Series with Solid 3-2 Win

Just to get this out of the way, whilst going back to what I said earlier, Montreal returned to their recent string of solid play on Thursday, whilst simultaneously proving they can play with the best of the rest after spending this entire season in the All-Canadian North Division. While Monday’s Game 1 loss wasn’t pretty with the Knights outplaying the Canadiens through the last 40 after a solid first period, Montreal looked par for the course in Thursday’s 3-2 win.

In spite of getting completely and utterly burned on a fake slapper from Knights defenseman Shea Theodore in Game 1, Carey Price managed to keep his composure throughout, putting together an impressive Game 2 performance overall, with 29 saves on 31 shots. Joel Edmundson put up two apples whilst narrowly avoiding a hard collision with Vegas forward William Karlsson. Tyler Toffoli continued his league-best eight-game point streak with a powerplay marker in the first. And Shea Weber took one for the team with a game-saving block in the dying seconds of the third.

After going up 3-0 towards the end of the second, the Knights put up a valiant comeback effort which ultimately fell short. For the second game in a row, Vegas looked frazzled over the first period as they struggled to catch up early. With the series now even, look for the Knights to come back with a vengeance on the road in Game 3, but with an increased capacity of 3,500 at the Bell Centre, expect Montreal to be right there with them, with the limited fans sticking along for what has been a one of a kind playoff run thus far.