The Montreal Canadiens are off to an unexpectedly good start this season with a 4-1-2 record
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leads and ultimately lost 4-3 in overtime Saturday to the Ottawa Senators,
another early-season surprise. It will be interesting to see how the Canadiens
bounce back against the Flames.“You have to learn from losses,” Canadiens
forward Brendan Gallagher told montrealcanadiens.com after practice Monday. “You
learn more from a loss than you do from a win. We made some mistakes. We
understand the errors we made.Article continues below ...“After our previous
losses, we’ve done a pretty good job of responding. This is a little bit of a
different situation, where we let a lead slip away,” Gallagher said. “Now we
have to react the appropriate way, come back strong with a good effort and learn
how to play in those situations.”Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, who gave up
four goals on 34 shots against the Senators, will be under the microscope. He
gave up a weak goal on a shot along the goal line by Ottawa’s Mikkael Boedker
that cut the Canadiens lead to 3-2 on Saturday.Price, who is in the first year
of an eight-year, $84 million contract that pays him $15 million this season,
ranks 34th in the NHL in save percentage (.904) and 25th in save percentage
(2.57).The Canadiens are expected to go with the same lineup, which means
forwards Charles Hudon (healthy scratch) and Tomas Plekanec (back) and
defenseman Victor Mete (hand) could be out. There’s a possibility Mete could
play
Womens Jake Muzzin Jersey , which could result in Karl Alzner, who had a rough night against Ottawa, being scratched.The Canadiens must improve in the faceoff
circle. They are ranked last in the NHL with a 42.6 winning percentage. They
lost both faceoffs in overtime against the Senators, when possession is critical
in a 3-on-3 situation, before losing the game.“At the end of the day, I think
there’s a lot of things that go into being a good faceoff guy,” Canadiens coach
Claude Julien told The Montreal Gazette. “For certain guys, it’s the experience
of going through the league at least once, knowing the centermen they’re taking
them against. You learn to see the tendencies. You also understand that there’s
some experience that comes into play.“There’s also guys that have a real good
eye-hand coordination that’s unbelievable. Some of it is determination. There’s
so many things that come into play as far as being a centerman. So you keep
working on that stuff, repetition and talking about it before our games. Even
guys are watching the team that we’re playing taking faceoffs (on video) and how
they take them. So we try and help them as best we can in all areas, whether
it’s practice, whether it’s video. We understand we need to get better.”It could
be a long night for the Canadiens given the Flames are ranked eighth in the NHL
in faceoff winning percentage at 52.3 percent.The Flames are coming off a 4-1
win against the Rangers in New York on Sunday.Elias Lindholm, 23
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in goals with five.He has been playing on Calgary’s top line with Johnny
Gaudreau and Sean Monahan.“We built some chemistry pretty early in the season,”
Gaudreau told the team’s website. “He’s a great teammate and a great player, a
smart player, so it makes it easier to (transition) when you’re playing with
that good of a guy and that skilled of a player. Hopefully we can keep building
off of it because I know all three of us have five, six years left on our
contracts in Calgary. Hopefully we can keep building off of it and get a pretty
solid line together.”Calgary coach Bill Peters, who also joined the Flames from
the Hurricanes, coached Lindholm in Carolina after the Hurricanes selected him
with the No. 5 pick in the 2013 NHL draft.“Lindy has been a good player for a
long time,” Peters said on calgaryflames.com. “He probably came into the league
a little bit early. He played right after he got drafted and then got hurt and
went down to the American League and back up, so I’m very familiar with his
path. But he’s a very smart player, a very reliable player who can play center
and wing, real good on faceoffs. He’s a good player and that’s why he got
drafted where he got drafted and we’re excited to have him. He’s going to bring
a lot to our organization over time.”Montreal forward Andrew Shaw said the
Canadiens will be ready for the Flames speed.“They’re young, they’re
skilled
http://www.kingsproshop.com/authentic-jonathan-quick-jersey , they’re quick,” he told the team website. “The goalie (Mike Smith) can handle
the puck pretty well so we have to be sure on our dumps. They are a team that’s
not going to go away shy. When they compete with the skill and speed they have,
they are a very dangerous team.” WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) Down 3-0 after a
disastrous opening 20 minutes, there was no flipping of tables or peeling of
paint off the walls in the Winnipeg Jets‘ locker room.They instead spent the
first intermission calmly trying to figure a way out of that deficit.”We got
kicked in the teeth a little bit,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. ”Our goal
was just to win the second period and give ourselves a chance.”They did that,
and a whole lot more.Wheeler scored on the power play with 4:59 left after
Winnipeg roared back from that early deficit to defeat the Nashville Predators
7-4 on Tuesday night and grab a 2-1 lead in their second-round playoff
series.”It’s definitely not how you draw up a first period, but nobody
panicked,” said Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba, who finished with a goal and an
assist.”We just regrouped. It wasn’t really any different in here than if it was
a tie game or if we were winning.”We just went out there and played a little bit
faster and played with a little bit more confidence.”Dustin Byfuglien had two
goals and an assist for Winnipeg, and Paul Stastny added a goal and two
assists.Wheeler, who also had an assist, scored the first of two empty-net goals
in the final minute
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consecutive multi-point games in a postseason. Connor Hellebuyck made 26
stops.Filip Forsberg and P.K. Subban each had a goal and an assist for
Nashville, while Mike Fisher and Austin Watson also scored. Mattias Ekholm and
Ryan Johansen both added two assists for the Predators, who got 38 saves from
Pekka Rinne.”We just stopped playing,” Nashville defenseman Ryan Ellis said.
