Game 61: Montreal Canadiens @ Anaheim Ducks Start time: **9:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM PST** In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French) In the Ducks region: K-COP13, Victory+ Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+ The Anaheim Ducks pulled off a big midnight surprise on Friday by acquiring John Carlson from the Washington Capitals, securing one of the faces of the Capitals franchise even though Washington is still in the wild-card race in the Eastern Conference. He may be 36 and no longer in his prime, but Carlson left the Caps as their assist leader this season. Fortunately for Montreal, he won’t be in tonight’s game, so no improvements have been made over what the Ducks approached the deadline with. That was still pretty good, however, and the Ducks are showing that they are a quality team filled with offensive talent. They’re now set to battle for the Pacific Division crown with the Vegas Golden Knights, even if they do have four fewer points than the Habs. Montreal didn’t make such an addition to its lineup. For the second consecutive year, the roster remained the same through the deadline, though this year that wasn’t for a lack of trying. Kent Hughes hinted that he made a lot of progress on a significant trade that he plans to revisit in the summer, but Montreal is going to have to see out this season with what they have. What they have tonight is Arber Xhekaj back in the lineup, and Martin St-Louis will need to make sure the three players he’s using on the bottom pairing are playing as well as possible because that’s what he has at his disposal until the end of the season. He’s leaned heavily on his top four, but with the schedule compressing for the final portion of the season, ice times will need to be spread more evenly to prevent the burnout the Habs carried into last year’s playoffs. This weekend alone there are two starts in less than 24 hours, so the coach needs accept that he has to use all of his players effectively, and it’s also up to all of Xhekaj, Jayden Struble, and Alexandre Carrier to prove that they can take some minutes from the core options. Montreal Canadiens projected lineup .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-ymce{background-color:#BE2F37;color:#FFF;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Left Wing Centre Right Wing #13 Cole Caufield #14 Nick Suzuki #20 Juraj Slafkovský #15 Alex Newhook #91 Oliver Kapanen #93 Ivan Demidov #76 Zachary Bolduc #71 Jake Evans #77 Kirby Dach #17 Josh Anderson #24 Phillip Danault #11 Brendan Gallagher .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-rjwb{background-color:#21386F;color:#FFF;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Left Defence Right Defence #8 Mike Matheson #21 Kaiden Guhle #48 Lane Hutson #53 Noah Dobson #72 Arber Xhekaj #45 Alexandre Carrier .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-n1r7{background-color:#FFF;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Starter Backup #35 Samuel Montembeault #75 Jakub Dobeš Scratched: Jayden Struble, Alexandre Texier, Joe Veleno Injured: Patrik Laine Anaheim Ducks projected lineup .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-bobw{font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-nrix{text-align:center;vertical-align:middle} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Left Wing Centre Right Wing Chris Kreider Leo Carlsson Cutter Gauthier Alex Killorn Mason McTavish Beckett Sennecke Frank Vatrano Ryan Poehling Jansen Harkins Ross Johnston Tim Washe Jeffrey Viel .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-bobw{font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Left Defence Right Defence Jackson LaCombe Jacob Trouba Olen Zellweger Radko Gudas Pavel Mintyukov Ian Moore .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-bobw{font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Starter Backup Lukas Dostal Ville Husso

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Game 61: Montreal Canadiens @ Anaheim Ducks Start time: **9:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM PST**<br>In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French)<br>In the Ducks region: K-COP13, Victory+<br>Streaming...

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Game 61: Montreal Canadiens @ Anaheim Ducks Start time: **9:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM PST** In the Canadiens region: TSN2 (English), RDS (French) In the Ducks region: K-COP13, Victory+ Streaming: ESPN+, RDS, TSN+ The Montreal Canadiens weren’t the only young team to have a surprising start to the season and sit atop their division after the opening month. Thanks to a seven-game winning streak from October 28 to November 9, the Anaheim Ducks held the first seed in the Pacific Division, and went into the Christmas break in a three-way tie with the Vegas Golden Knights and Edmonton Oilers for that placement. Things went off the rails when the players reconvened for the second half of the season after the holidays. They lost four games in a row before embarking a road trip to play several Eastern Conference teams, and proceeded to get swept in those four games as well. During that losing streak, they were scored on at least five times on seven occasions. In other divisions, that streak probably would have seriously harmed their hopes of making the playoffs, but even after that final loss in Buffalo on January 10 they were three points out of a wild-card spot, and seven back of the Golden Knights for the top seed. Since that losing streak, the Ducks have been a different team. They’ve only lost three times in their last 16 games, with winning streaks of seven and five games in that time. Their most recent match was on Wednesday night versus a New York Islanders team that has also gone on a charge over its last 10 games or so, and that was a 5-1 decision in Anaheim’s favour. Tale of the Tape .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-ymce{background-color:#BE2F37;color:#FFF;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} .tg .tg-8d8j{text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom} Canadiens Statistics Ducks 33-18-9 Record 34-24-3 48.6% (23rd) Expected-goal share 50.2% (15th) 3.52 (3rd) Goals per game 3.25 (13th) 3.27 (24th) Goals against per game 3.48 (30th) 24.7% (7th) PP% 18.2% (23rd) 76.5% (27th) PK% 77.3% (23rd) 1-1-0 Head-to-Head Record (24-25) 1-0-1 Cole Caufield (35) Most goals Cutter Gauthier (31) Nick Suzuki (50) Most assists Jackson LaCombe (35) Nick Suzuki (69) Most points Cutter Gauthier (55) If the Canadiens were hoping for a less dangerous opponent after a 7-5 loss in San Jose on Tuesday, they won’t find that tonight. Like the Sharks, the Ducks are a young team that skews heavily toward the offensive side of the game. Anaheim averages 3.25 goals per game, ranking 13th in the NHL. Cutter Gauthier leads with 55 points, and has five goals in his last three games and 11 in the 15 games since the loss in Buffalo. Rookie Beckett Sennecke is scoring a point per game in this span, and is up to 51 points on the campaign, with 20 of those being goals. The Habs still boast the better offensive numbers. Even during this run the Ducks are on dating back to January 10, Montreal has scored the most goals in the NHL, averaging 4.13 per night. That number is only rising with the return of Alex Newhook, who scored two goals to initially pull the Canadiens into a tie with the Sharks and now has four points in the three games he’s played coming out of the Olympic break. If there were any fears about him being hesitant in his play after recovering from a broken ankle, he’s answered them, and has already earned himself a promotion back to the second line with Oliver Kapanen and Ivan Demidov that worked well before he sustained his injury. That move is possible because Juraj Slafkovský has been placed next to Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, loading up the line with Montreal’s three best players. Caufield and Suzuki had a rare rough game in San Jose, finishing with -3 goal differentials in their matchup versus Macklin Celebrini, and Martin St-Louis is hoping to see more of the hard-working offensive play that line has been known for when these three have been together. It’s a move more about defence than offence, the one area that continues to stand in the way of the Canadiens being comfortably in a playoff position and currently being three points up in the wild-card race. The offensive improvements just from the arrivals of Demidov and Noah Dobson are clear enough from last year, and yet there’s still the possibility that it once again comes down to a race between Montreal and Columbus for the final spot. The perception of the situation would change a lot with a win tonight. Right now what looks like a drop in the standings is largely the fact that the Habs have only played once in the past five days. There’s a more winnable game versus the struggling Los Angeles Kings waiting on Sunday, so the Habs have a chance in front of them to claim four points in just over 24 hours and feel better about their next two-day break. The commitment on defence will need to be a lot stronger than it was versus Celebrini, but there’s no team in the NHL the Canadiens shouldn’t be able to outscore.

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