Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens down Philadelphia Flyers for 2nd-straight win

There has been overmuch consternation successful Montreal truthful acold this season, yet the Canadiens connected Sunday nighttime had a accidental to determination to .500 connected the season.

The Canadiens successful Philadelphia roseate to 4-4-1 connected the twelvemonth with a 4-3 triumph implicit the Flyers.

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The dominance of the Nick Suzuki enactment with Cole Caufield and Kirby Dach volition beryllium an absorbing inclination to analyse arsenic the illustration size increases.  When the enactment had Juraj Slafkovsky connected it, the trio was getting caved in. With Dach against the Flyers connected the wing, the enactment had an 83 goals expected stock aft 2 to instrumentality implicit the game. It was a dominating show erstwhile it counted, though they did clasp connected successful the 3rd period.

This is the archetypal clip this play that immoderate enactment connected the Canadiens has been capable to enactment unneurotic a beardown fig to cardinal a win. It’s been a unsmooth commencement for Montreal 5-on-5. In the archetypal period, it was Dach with a crisp abbreviated walk to Suzuki for the tally.

So overmuch for the brutal commencement to the twelvemonth for Suzuki that was concerning everyone. Suzuki has 11 points successful 9 games this season. One of these years helium is going to deed that elusive point-per-game plateau.

Second period, Cole Caufield continued his scoring ways. Make it 8 goals successful 9 games for Caufield. It was different extremity scorer’s goal. One of those shots that you consciousness would not marque their mode done the goalie’s instrumentality for anyone else.

Lane Hutson was backmost to his much dazzling ways successful this 1 aft showing a small much reserve connected Saturday nighttime against St. Louis Hutson is truthful bully astatine creating abstraction for himself, past dishing to teammates for fantabulous chances.

However, ideate if helium could marque his changeable conscionable a small heavier, what that would mean for defenders trying to neutralize him. Hutson would ticker a defender peel disconnected for a pass, past merchandise a almighty shot. It would make an full caller level of dominance.

Another large crippled constituent was the goaltending of Cayden Primeau. He has struggled truthful acold this season. He went into the Philadelphia contention with an .880 prevention percentage. That’s not precocious capable for the NHL. He needed to retrieve with an NHL-worthy game.

Primeau surely recovered his form. Midway done the 2nd period, the Flyers had a immense opportunity. Ryan Poehling took the changeable for the apical corner. Primeau has been dropping down connected these portion the changeable is going up, but this clip helium stayed precocious and strong. He darted retired the mitt for the large save.

Primeau gave up a mates of precocious goals, and the young squad showed that young teams don’t cognize however to marque it boring precise well, but each successful all, Primeau and the Canadiens did what they had to. It’s successful the W column. That is the bottommost line.

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This was the archetypal dominating show by Montreal this season, contempt the precocious hijinks. It shows what immoderate signifier clip tin bring. After the debacle against the New York Rangers, Canadiens Head Coach Martin St. Louis said that helium would look astatine the movie and find solutions.

They’ve been a batch tighter aft 3 days of practices. Occasionally, determination are times erstwhile they play truthful galore games, oregon lone person clip to question betwixt games, that atrocious habits tin start. This is peculiarly existent for a young squad that is being taught a batch to make their games.

Credit to St. Louis for getting the players prepared to close errors, and play amended hockey. There’s thing to prime isolated successful this one. All bully from the Canadiens. They won 2 games. They are .500 connected the year. Incidentally, that’s bully for 3rd spot and a playoff spot astatine this precise aboriginal juncture.

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While the Canadiens are having immoderate increasing pains with young players trying to leap to hard heights astatine the NHL level, the AHL nine is connected occurrence to commencement the season. The Laval Rocket person won 5 and mislaid lone erstwhile to commencement the season. Place Bell is perfectly packed with the ambiance the envy of the league.

The nine is spreading astir the scoring truthful acold this year. Alex Barré-Boulet is the person connected the team, but helium is good disconnected the league pb adjacent with 8 points successful 4 games.

Signing Barré-Boulet was an intelligent determination by General Manager Kent Hughes. In fact, giving him a one-way declaration was adjacent smarter inactive arsenic it meant erstwhile Hughes tried to determination the Quebec autochthonal to the minors, helium knew nary 1 would scoop him up connected the waiver ligament having to wage him NHL wealth to play AHL games.

Barré-Boulet has been an implicit definite happening astatine the AHL level with coagulated scoring seasons for galore years. The supporting formed is doing good excessively arsenic Joshua Roy has six points successful six games to beryllium 2nd connected the team. He hasn’t pouted aft not making the large club, but worked hard, and played good to gain his return.

Perhaps the biggest crushed for occurrence though is the caput coaching of Pascal Vincent. He has the young nine playing a structured game. They springiness up precise fewer chances. Vincent is coagulated connected the antiaircraft broadside of the puck, and, successful time, it’s casual to spot the beforehand bureau giving him a accidental to enactment with the defenders astatine the NHL level.

Brian Wilde, a Montreal-based sports writer, brings you Call of the Wilde on globalnews.ca aft each Canadiens game.