Jeff Petry dealt with *a lot* over the past 48 hours, so it’s all the more remarkable that he had a career game with all of this on his mind. (by EricEngels)
scored in a matinee win over the Florida Panthers, as much as it was that he did it under the type of chaotic and highly distracting circumstances we almost never hear about.
Julie Petry was driving on the inbound highway to Montreal from the south shore, en route to meet her four-year-old son Boyd at the Montreal Children’s Hospital because he had suffered an allergic reaction. Boyd, who was at daycare, was given an EpiPen to control the reaction and then he was placed in ambulance.
But with Boyd feeling better, and with Barrett now accustomed to life in a cast, he came to the Bell Centre on Saturday prepared to play the team’s biggest game of the season—against a Florida team that was eight points up in the standings and sitting in third place in the Atlantic Division. With the Canadiens dipping in the standings, Petry’s name has been circulating in the rumour mill. Even if he knows it’s because several teams will be interested in his services as a strong, right-handed defenceman who averages over 23 minutes per game, who’s on pace to beat his career high 46 points in 82 games last season and still has one year left on his contract at a digestible $5.
The Canadiens also got goals from Nick Suzuki, Artturi Lehkonen and Tomas Tatar and Price qualified their performance as “a good team effort.”“He’s part of that—when we talk about a core group—every team has a core group he’s part of that group,” said Canadiens coach Claude Julien. “That says a lot about him. Not just us as coaches, but even his teammates see him as a leader, and we make him part of that core group that sometimes coaches lean on and try and get a feel for certain things.
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