In this Habs Tuesday Report, the Canadiens are 4-3-1 after eight games, and the season already reads like two different chapters. The first four games went 1-2-1 with 4.75 goals against a night. The last four went 3-1-0 and the special teams turned around. Some problems did not move at all: the penalties, the blown…
The Canadiens are 4-3-1, but the points they have lost keep following the same pattern: third-period breakdowns, penalties, a struggling power play, soft spots in coverage and net. Six problems explained.
Cole Caufield scored 54 seconds into overtime to give the Canadiens a 4-3 win over the Sabres after Montreal let a 3-1 lead slip away at the Bell Centre.
Josh Anderson scores twice and Lane Hutson delivers another strong offensive performance, but Montreal’s defensive struggles and Jakub Dobes’ latest outing raise important questions.
Montreal escaped with a 4–3 shootout victory over Buffalo, but another blown two-goal lead exposed the fine details that Martin St. Louis and his young team must master to become legitimate contenders.
Montreal builds a two-goal lead before Buffalo rallies, but Alexandre Texier, Zachary Bolduc and the Canadiens prevail once again in the shootout.
The Canadiens dominated Nashville, outshooting and outchancing the Predators, and still lost 5-2. A look at the lines, the defense pairs and where the goals really came from.
The Canadiens outshot the Predators 34-20 but lost 5-2 at the Bell Centre, their third straight loss. Special teams, discipline and Coach’s Take.
Martin St-Louis enters his fifth season as Canadiens head coach with a new reality: real depth, higher expectations and a puck possession gap to close.
Hockey is back, and the whole organization is playing again. Only the Lions have not started their season yet. The Canadiens opened on September 29, the Rocket and the NCAA prospects followed on October 2, and many European prospects started earlier in September. Every Monday during the season, we will publish a Weekly Report on…