The rope-a-doping Canadiens have the Jets up against the ropes. The final blow could arrive as early as Monday night. (EricEngels)
Two of the three looked like they were in another world for long stretches of the regular season, and so did most of the Canadiens — losing 14 of their last 21 games and appearing as though they had nothing left in the tank over the final 44 days of it. They started the playoffs looking like they were going to bow out meekly, but now they’re on the verge of establishing themselves as one of the final four teams standing.
They weren’t nearly good enough in Game 1, and they haven’t been able to generate much of anything — outside of Lowry’s goal and a couple of crossbars hit — without Mark Scheifele, who was suspended four games for charging and concussing Jake Evans. They’re in tough to change that. “You go into an NHL room after it loses a game, 10 minutes after, there’s not going to be a lot of fun in there right now,” said Jets coach Paul Maurice. “So, we deal with it that way. We don’t want to turn the music on, throw a party here. We just lost another hockey game and we got our backs against the wall.
“But we start working on tomorrow right after this game. So, we do our media, and then we start to recover and get better.” The Canadiens are doing the same, though, and they appear prepared to deliver a win few would’ve expected before this all got started.
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