Sam Montembeault got to hear his name chanted at the Bell Centre Monday, a just reward for the hard work he's put in to improve his play. ericengels has more on the ways veteran Canadien players are developing in the final games of the season.
“Starting deeper in my net to have a shorter movement to go across and beat the passes compared to when I got here I was going out of my crease a lot,” he said to explain what he’s been working on. “And when they were starting to do a lot of passes across, I would get late and start to run around. I think that’s something I improved and something they helped me get better at.
He’s helped Suzuki and Caufield produce at least a point per game since joining the team, and he’s taken the long approach with Anderson and Gallagher — a pair of established goal scorers who have always played the game in straight lines, at full speed, and with reckless abandon.
“Now you see five guys on that side of the ice, you have to get the puck to the open ice, which is on the far side. It’s more of a strategic change… There’s little things in d-zone — a lot of teams swarm; five guys on the same side of the ice, where the open ice is out there behind. If you’re trying to create offence, you’re always just trying to find the open ice and trying to create pockets…”
Neither of them are lighting up the score sheet — even if Anderson scored Montreal’s second goal against the Jets and Gallagher probably would’ve had their first had Armia’s stick not beat his to the rebound Dvorak created — but the coach is allowing them to take a small step back in the hopes they can take bigger ones forward.“I think it’s important,” he said. “If you’re going to play in this league for a long time, you’ve got to keep evolving as a player.
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