Some perplexing decisions cost the Canadiens two important points against the Blackhawks (EricEngels)
The 18-year-old Finn, who has 11 goals and 21 assists, played two shifts in the frame while his team trailed by two goals.
With the Canadiens’ net empty, with just under three minutes to play, it wasn’t 17-goal scorer Andrew Shaw anchoring the team’s 6-on-5 unit. It wasn’t Paul Byron, who has 13 goals in 49 games but has scored 20 in each of the last two seasons. No, they were sitting next to Kotkaniemi, watching five-goal man Jordan Weal complete the last of his shifts as Montreal’s second-most used forward in the game.
If you're not going to have Phil Danault take a faceoff on his strong side on the PP, what's he doing out there? He has zero power play goals in 257 career games.Perplexing? Completely. And Canadiens coach Claude Julien stood at the podium of the team’s press room afterwards wondering aloud about whether or not the pressure of the playoff race had disabled his group from turning any one of their 48 shots on net into goals in the 2-0 loss.
Conceded on that point. The Canadiens fell to three points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the final playoff spot available in the Eastern Conference. They’re now four points behind the Carolina Hurricanes and six behind the Pittsburgh Penguins, and they’ve got 10 games left in the season to make up ground.
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