The Montreal Canadiens headed to Buffalo to take on the Sabres. Global Montreal hockey analyst Brian Wilde has more on the Monday night game.
It’s a busy week for the Montreal Canadiens with four games on the schedule. It started with a date in Buffalo against the Sabres, an unusual team to assess. They have some of the best young talent in hockey, but have not learned how to win regularly with that talent.
The real coming-of-age story on defence, though, is Justin Barron. He has only been in a couple games, but he looks excellent this season. What a bonus this would be for the Canadiens for Barron to be all that they hoped for when they dealt for him and lost Artturi Lehkonen.Barron was strong against the Washington Capitals on Saturday night and he was even better on Monday night, opening the scoring for Montreal.
If he keeps getting all the touches that he is getting, the goals will come. Slafkovsky had a breakaway in this contest, but was unable to get a powerful shot away in time on a slightly too-slow release. He will learn how to get that shot away more quickly next time.In fact, that’s one of the key things to notice from Slafkovsky: he seems to learn quickly how to be a better player. Whatever he struggles with, he works on, and he gets better.
He’s not the first young athlete to have issues on this matter, and it rarely persists. A good example is tennis player Novak Djokovic, who could not make it through a difficult match when he was young. Djokovic would nearly faint, was dizzy, often lying prone in the middle of the court ill. He worked it out, and now has the best stamina in tennis even at 36.
Not a giant point to make when it’s a 3-1 win, but the penalties will cost them a lot this season, even though it did not tonight.Martin St. Louis, head coach of the Canadiens, never complains about the media. He always understands that the media also has a job to do, but last week he made an exception. St. Louis had a bone to pick as he lamented that he faced three days of constant questions about his poor special teams, but no one seemed to notice that 5-on-5 the team was doing well.
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