Tuesday evening, evening of rivalry at the Bell Center, like the Montreal Canadians hosted on Ottawa senators. With the hosts seated in the ninth place of the Eastern Conference and visitors to the first point of Joker, the inclination had huge implications in the playoffs, just like the Calgary flames against. New York Rangers,, New York Icelanders against. Pittsburgh penguinsAnd Detroit Red Wings against. Washington Capitals matches.

Just like Saturday evening, the crowd of the Bell Center was very vocal. He broke out in applause when Patrik Laine dropped Linus Ullmark with a hard shot and even more when Christian Dvorak scored to give Montreal the first lead.

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Canadians have become more difficult to play

At the time of Marc Bergevin, the clothes had several impactful defenders, which the former managing director liked to say made them difficult to play. Montreal still has impactful blueers, but there are also hard strikers at the front, and that makes a difference.

During the first period only, Thomas Chabot fell the washer twice to prepare to contact. Once because of a stroke of Jayden and once because of Josh Anderson. It was one of the five strokes of Anderson in the first 20 minutes.

Montreal released 13 in Nine d’Ottawa. Although we often talk about Canadians being more offensive under Martin St-Louis, the physical aspect of the game becomes more and more important.

At the end of the match, the Canadians succeeded in 27 strokes, the senators only 13 and Captain Brady Tkachuk did not have one. I asked Martin St-Louis why his players were so physically dominant during the match:

I think it’s part of the game, and when you bring a rhythm to the game, you have the opportunity to be physical. We put good rings in the area, and this allowed us to be close enough to them to be able to be physical. We are talking a lot about the strategy of knowing where to put the washers, and we have players capable of playing a physical game.

– Martin St-Louis on the physical game of his team

Double blow

Not scoring on a power game is one thing, but conceding inside what should have been the two minutes of the power game is even worse. As part of the middle, while Drake Batherson was in the sin of sin, Juraj Slafkovsky was found guilty of having kept Artem Zub. Michael Amadio gave senators the advance on the sequences of four against four that followed and deflated the clothes and the building momentarily.

Slafkovsky did not play a bad game, but this penalty was expensive when it happened. However, on the second penalty of the senses of the framework, he prevented two attempts to compensate in no time. After 40 minutes, the Big Slovak had 3 of the 17 Canadians and made it more than its fair share offensively.

Fortunately for the power striker, the clothes bounced in the best way in the third image.

Win a team

After Lane Hutson leveled the scoring in the third framework, Travis Hamonic scored from afar, a goal Samuel Montembeault would probably have liked to return. Earlier this season, it could have been that; It could have sucking the energy of his teammates, but not Tuesday evening, the Canadians rolled up their sleeves and went to work.

Anderson, who had worked so hard throughout the match, was rewarded when he scored the second goal of the Canadiens executive. Montreal was always hungry, however, and when Shane Pinto stumbled Anderson, he opened the door largely so that the clothes put the final touch on this match.

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Nick Suzuki, who played again on the two power units, scored the winning goal with two seconds to go to the advantage, but he could never have done so if Brendan Gallagher had not removed him from Ullmark after the rocket of Emil Heineman’s shot. The alternative captain obtained three points, and even if he did not have a star, he did everything else. It was a dominant performance of the third line since the Dvorak center scored four points, and it was the line that crowned the victory with a few empty nets.

With this hard victory won, the Canadians jump the rangers and take the only possession of the second generic point of the Eastern Conference. With 15 games to play, the clothes are squarely in the mixture, and right now, this group thinks it can do everything.

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