Even though the current situation the CanadiensMTL find themselves in is a hard one for their fans to digest, the future looks brighter with each passing day. (via EricEngels)
MONTREAL — The sequence was a minute and six seconds long and it encapsulated what theIt featured the third-overall pick in the 2018 Draft and the 25th-overall pick in the 2017 Draft making a group of five Tampa Bay Lightning players with over 2000 games of experience between them look like a bunch of rookies.
Lukas Vejdemo, the 23-year-old who was drafted 87th overall in 2015 and was playing in his second-ever NHL game, was by consensus one of their more effective ones. He might have only played 9:18, but he helped the Canadiens control 80 per cent of the shot attempts at 5-on-5 when he was on the ice. “He’s playing with a lot more confidence,” Weber started, “he’s always had poise at points. And I think his ability to make plays and, even a couple times tonight, skate through the middle and get a shot on net, and obviously delivers a big hit there in the third .
That they have to depend on these kids to take on so much while veterans Jonathan Drouin, Brendan Gallagher, Joel Armia and Paul Byron are nursing injuries, is a big part of the reason the odds are stacked against them in this playoff race.
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