THIS is WHY The Montreal Canadiens BLEW The Game In Edmonton!

THIS is WHY The Montreal Canadiens BLEW The Game In Edmonton!

Welcome to the live version. Happy Friday everybody. The Star and De Mo show presented by Cheapest T-shirts. Cheapest t-shirts is where you want to be. MLAN’s Pub Little Bear online and Katherine Prince Realy with Remax Platin. There’s Marco Deco. I am Sean Star. How about this? All you star sound haters in the chats that I see every day, you’re going to love this one. I’ve got a massive power outage in my neighborhood and we’re not back till 400 p.m. So, I’ll apologize in advance for the AirPods sound, but nevertheless, happy to be here. Felt compelled to be here, especially after last night’s result. You know, when I went to bed, the Montreal Canadians, Marco, we’re we’re leading this hockey game. I want to start by talking about the Blaine game. I want to I want to talk about how this happened, why this happened. I don’t think it’s as simplistic as to point to Garrett Rank or Schleric or the referees on the ice last night. They’re involved, no doubt. But what happened? What happened to the Montreal Canadians from your point of view? Now that you had a chance to sleep on it that saw a 53 third period lead turn into a 65 regulation time loss, Marco, I mean, if I say anything other than the refs were ass, I’m just going to get flamed anyway, so who cares? Um, like I don’t know. I’m going to try to have a civil, very analytical understanding of this game. People may not like this. Sorry. The problem with this game, very simple. The Canadians had their opportunities. The referees were inconsistent at both ends of the ice. Yeah. ultimately when it came time to having to defend the penalty kill, right? Um, you know, I just don’t feel like the Canadians did a really good job of that late in the third. Um, they were obviously tired from having played back to backs and I don’t blame them, especially playing as quickly as they did against the Canadians. Um, you know, to me ultimately when you have to look at how this game broke down, they needed that that extra save from Samuel Montbo. they could not get it. Um, and now here we are with Yeah. a 65 loss in this situation. But again, it all comes down to breakdowns. Honest to God, this is the one game I wish I didn’t have to talk about. Wh why? Because everyone just wants to see me say the refs suck. There’s a conspiracy against the the the Canadians. Even the players are pointing this out. Someone needs to do something about it. Like you went to bed, Sean. Yeah. my DMs and comments combined to like a thousand uh folds were just that last night. And I understand fans being frustrated and yes, that was probably one of the worst officiated games we’ve seen, but the ref didn’t put the puck in the net. Well, exactly. Like, you know, the comments are the comments, right? like um you know I don’t want to make this a philosophical take on on you know where we are today in in the world in media in instant reaction and everybody has an opinion you know but I’ll give you an example I saw on Marco’s timeline um some guy who’s got a havves banner right on his profile page uh talked about uh you know oh what a what a biased show this is going to be and then I was like okay let’s see what this person’s about, you know. So, I clicked on their profile and it’s F Trudeau and it’s conspiracy theory this NHL has bought and paid for blah blah blah blah blah, right? Like when I see stuff like that, truth be told, you call me a sucker, I don’t care. Um I I immediately that person’s opinion is null and void. I don’t I don’t care. I don’t care because as you pointed out, Sam Montto’s got to make a save. Josh Anderson has been in this league for how long? For how long? for 10 years, right? Brendan Gallagher has been in this league for a long time, right? And as I as I said in the opening, this is a layered loss. It’s a layered loss. It’s Sam Monto’s 749 save percentage or 793, whatever it was. Um 842 on the season for Sam Monttobo. Payton Primo was 836 last season, right? There’s a goalending issue and there’s a problem with San Monttobo, but he’s also not the not the full stop reason why this team lost. When the referee went to Brendan Gallagher and said, “Listen, we made a mistake. We made a mistake with the iceky decision.” To me, we can talk about that as the TSN turning point of the hockey game where Josh Anderson slapping his stick on the ice, uh, jawing back and forth with the referee doing a mock cheer that resulted in him getting teed up. At the end of the day, while the referee made a mistake, Josh Anderson made a mistake and the Montreal Canadians, you know, had to pay for that. And as we pointed out on our live show on on on Thursday, um, you can’t be giving this team power play opportunities. So, like I’m not pointing everything exclusively at the referees. Even though they had a subpar performance, collective collectively, the team kind of fell apart in the third period based on a set of circumstances. Not one not one individual thing, but a few different things that added up to a major loss and a major collapse when they had a 5-3 lead, Marco, because they outplayed the Edmonton Oilers. They were the better team on the ice again. By far. By far. And honestly, that’s what makes it difficult to try and analyze a game like this. Like I I have nothing to add to that. I think that’s spot on. So, what do we what’s the what’s the deal with Sam Monto? Um don’t know what to I mean, hold on. Do you want to be here and do this show today or are you just out of it because you got nothing to add to this and I’m just I’m absolutely asking a question. I’m absolutely def I’m absolutely deflated, guys. Like I understand everyone being pissed off, man, but like leave me out of it is all I got to say. I mean, I guess maybe more rational, you know, we’ll analyze this as as straight shot as we can. Yeah. Like there’s there’s no chance no chance that uh I’m going to that that we’re going to be able to fix the NHL overnight when it comes to their negotiating. That’s what boards of governors are for. That’s what GM meetings are for. You know, if if the Canadians really wanted to stick it to the to to, you know, the the refs, then Jeff Molson would pay the $25,000 fine that would ensue of Martine St. Louis for publicly calling them out. Like, that’s where it’s done. It’s not going to be on this. Well, that’s it. You know, at least the referees admitted that they made the they made the they made the mistake on the Sliffkoski call uh uh call right on the boarding. I mean, that was that was a brutal soft call. There’s no getting around that. We’re going to tell it like it is in all aspects, right? But like the other layer to this, Marco, defensively, this team in in front of San Monto, they weren’t good enough. You know, Noah Dobson had a nice bounceback game on on a great feed. Oliver Kappa distributing the puck looking great. Uh Cole Cfield’s on seven goals. Beauty goals, too. Uh two different varieties. Great move. Great shot again on Cal Pickard. Um Josh Anderson gets a goal. Like there was there were some positives here, but yeah, the overwhelming takeaway is how did this team let this slip away? And it is a layered defeat, but good teams have a way to bounce back. And it’s a learning moment, especially it was just so surprising to see Josh Anderson react the way he did. If you go on my Twitter timeline, I retweeted like the whole sequence from the bird’s eye view of of Anderson sweeping the puck out of the net after the goal and then like tapping a stick on the ice a few times and then clapping to the referees and then ultimately, you know, he he gets teed up and and the Canadians are unraveled at at that point, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, listen, I think the ref’s emotions also got involved in this game. I think the Canadians being in this situation, you’re playing the Edmonton flipping Oilers. Don’t give the refs an excuse when you know that they’re emotionally compromised in this game to give you a call. Is it a soft call? Yes. Was the Slowski call a soft call? Yes. Was the Mike Mat interference with his stick call a bad call? Yes. But at the end of the day, it was inconsistent on both ends. The Canadians could have been called for a few things in the second period against as well and we’re not. you know, like, yeah, it’s the only thing we’re focused on is the third period. I think this was a horribly officiated game from top to bottom, not simply towards the Montreal Canadians. And yes, one of the refs is from Medicine Hat. Yeah, that’s absolutely fantastic. Um, and the other one is from just outside Toronto. You know that that’s there is no conspiracy here. There is none. It’s just incompetence. It’s just bad reference. That’s the word. That’s the word. That’s literally it. And when you know that’s happening and you are like and and Brendan Gallagher said it, maybe we should have shut our mouths and I 100% agree with him. It’s like, “Hey buddy, you just got scored on on the p on the power play. You had a two goal lead. You’re down to one. Shut the bleep up. Don’t like just do your job. You’re a professional athlete, right? If you’re going to keep jawing at the ref, nothing is going to come from that that’s going to be positive. Nothing. No. Like I So to me it’s like were the refs terrible? Yes. Did the Havs help themselves? No. Because the Mike Mat trip that started this all was a legitimate penalty. Yeah, it was a legitimate penalty. It’s unfortunate. Correct. Correct. Mike like it’s really and I’m not going to blame Mike Mat for like trying to defend Conor McDavid. There’s a reason why this guy draws so many calls. He’s so good at cutting to the net. But ultimately, and I’m sorry, that’s a penalty. And that’s what got the party started. A legitimate penalty. And then it just diggled from there. Like it’s it’s it’s unfortunate. It really is. Like to me, like I understand the frustration. Yeah. But I think it’s an oversimpl over oversimplifying of the situation to simply just look at the refs and be like, they sold the game. This game is is bought. Uh the the I saw tweets like the mafia owns sports betting and this is why it’s happening. Like like all I’m saying guys is like this happens to teams all over the league. Dude, it happened all the time. Marco, you want to talk about the Chicago game? What was the what was the penalty call in the Chicago game? Would the Canadians have 10 power plays where where where the conspiracy theorists abound talking about how the league is trying to put the Canadians over in Chicago’s home opener and they’re trying to, you know, get lurier back to the top of the standings and so there’s a conspiracy. No, it just it’s an emotional reaction to a game in which the Montreal Canadians had control, right? And yes, whether it’s Chanty Bilips or Roier, the Gambino crime family, the banano crime family. We’re going back to Malberry Street in New York City in Little Italy style, right? And I like that you bring up, you know, some of the takes because the timing couldn’t have been any worse, especially with the with the news that shocked the NBA yesterday, right? But um when it comes to to me the bigger the bigger issue at hand here, right, is figuring out, you know, why this team a few times already and the Canadians still sit at top the Atlantic. They’re six and three. Yes, they lose to the Oilers. There’s a bounce back opportunity. The Vancouver Conucks on Saturday night have lost two games in a row. It’ll, you know, you look for the markers that suggest you’re talking about a good team. good teams have the ability to bounce back. So, we’ll see what the Canadians punch back will be on Saturday. I mean, let’s let’s clear clear the air right now. Uh Saturday night, it’s it’s Yakob Dovish. There’s no there’s no debate here. I mean, we could just move on, right? It’s Dobish’s game on Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. And if he play if he plays well, he’ll he’ll get Seattle, too. I think so, too. I mean, I honest to God, I’m sorry, but you know, I’m not going to put this game solely on Montbo because I do feel like the the refereeing, you know, the door, the Canadians scored five goals. That should be enough to win the game. But to me, um, like that last goal, the sixth goal was pure indicative. And if there are any goalies in the chat that that that have played, you you’ll know what I’m talking about here. Yeah, you can tell when a goalie is in confidence because a goalie that lacks confidence plays much deeper in his net than a goalie that is in full confidence. And Montbo on that last goal was very much deep into his net already committed to the butterfly. And then the backhand comes and he’s too far into his net for the coverage on his glove hand. And his glove hand to boot was facing down before the shot was taken. So he had to he had to have time to flip it up. in proper position, you are ready like this and you that’s that’s when the hand comes out. And if you’re a little bit out of the net, you’re cutting a strong percentage of that shooting opportunity behind him. So again, to me, like on that play specifically, like that’s when it showed the most. But the Oilers had figured out that Montimbo was weak on his glove hand last night if you look at the goals that were scored outside of the two tips, the first two tips. Um, but yeah, I mean the one thing and then we’re going to get into the actual constructive stuff in a sec. The one thing I will say before we get into the positives is I think that this is also a lesson for the Canadians because the Canadians are still one of the most penalized teams in the league. 100% regardless of who the ref is, right? And so if they’re going to find success in any way, shape, or form this season, they have to stop being in the box. And it’s not Arbor Jack guy that’s causing all these penalties. It’s not any of the younger players that are causing all these penalties. It’s the vets. Yeah. So, this comes from the top. Correct. So, that’s the only thing I got to say is like when you’re Josh Anderson, when you’re Brendan Gallagher, when you’re Mike Mat, guys, like you got to lead by example here in this in the in the discipline department, even if the you know that the refs aren’t necessarily calling it down the middle. Well, that’s what I you know, I said in the opener. It’s like Josh Anderson’s been in the league for 10 years, man. Like I And and to me, you know, my read on the situation and and Marco’s right, like I want to talk about the positives, Demidov’s role. Uh where was he yesterday when the on the Canadians won power play opportunity. We’ll talk about the Evans line with Gallagher and Anderson. Um I also want to get into um Noah Doppson’s game and then and and Cole Cfield and whether or not Team USA is paying attention. Nick Suzuki’s point streak continues, right? But I think you know when we talk about what had happened and to me one of the turning points, right, was the referee in conversation with Brendan Gallagher admitting to the assistant captain that they blew the Slowski Cole. He said they made a mistake and you go back to the bench that is communicated to the rest of the team and I got to believe they’re stewing. they are absolutely they can’t get a hold of their minds can’t keep that composure and we’ll see if those lessons can be applied as early as Saturday night and learning from that uh example because it was like the Canadians got the first power play of the night and then it was six straight miners that went against them and obviously the egregious Leovski and then the Anderson gets teed up and lo and behold Dryidle McDavid everybody’s firing pucks and unfortunately for Sam Montau Right. It was it was it was too bad because like I’ll be honest, I’m cheering for Montabau. I want to see this guy regain his form. I want to see him do well to help this team move forward. But brother, like if in the hypothetical world that doesn’t exist, right? But it will here in a second. If he just made that one key stop, if he was able to hold on to a 54 lead, right? To me, that would have unlocked it all. I think it would have unlocked his mental freedom. Okay, I’m back. I locked it down. No more goals. and we win the game. You know, even if they would have gotten the extra point, I think it would have done it. You think so? Eh, then you get to overtime. Yeah. You put Cfield on. Go. Now, you know, I look at the way that I look at it is is twofold. I felt like the Canadians got a little overwhelmed emotionally and on the ice in the in the second half of the third period. Yeah. Um, and then obviously it it created what it created. One thing that I do want to point out is that top line went to work last night. Like that top line, that top Canadians line just dominated at five on five. It was We’re going to talk about Cole Coughfield. I mean, Cole Cawfield was insane. Yes. Insane at both ends of the ice. Yeah. And I think that’s the key here is like you look at a lot of his play like not not giving up on a play. you look at a second goal, everybody thought it was off. Everybody thought it had hit the netting, and honestly, it probably did. And this goes to the inconsistency of the referee, but um or referees, but ultimately Cfield continues with the play, goes down the other way and and takes, you know, fakes pass and takes a shot and scores a second in two minutes or 47 seconds. So, to me, like that’s a gamer. That’s a gamer’s mentality. That’s a guy that absolutely wants to come in and just rip it and and be a differencemaker. I mean, his first goal was a thing of beauty. And really, it is really fun to see how much his, you know, even when he’s gliding, he looks more explosive than a lot of the players skating at full speed. And I think that really is the biggest difference with him this year is just like there is an extra edge. He always had the scoring ability, but it was his ability to be able to skate his way into the high danger areas. And now he’s able to do that with ease. You know, even when it’s a one-on-one battle and he looks like he’s, you know, that maybe he’ll get overpowered, he does, and we’ve seen this before, he does the move where he just slowly slides the puck under the defender’s stick who’s like right next to him and takes the shot from under his stick so that he doesn’t get stick checked. Um, and you know, he scored a couple of goals that way over the past couple years, but really it has been intriguing to watch how quick and how crafty he is on the rush and it’s really kind of helped him in terms of his offense this year. He’s now tied for the lead in goal scoring. Am I right? That that is a fact. And just to add to that, Lane Hudson again, like one of my takeaways um from the game is watching 48 and again I I love his hockey IQ. I love how purposeful his shot selections are. He’s just not a [ __ ] it back, let it fly, and let’s see what happens on a rebound or whatever the case may be. How he purposefully steers shots for deflections, steers shots, um whether it’s a slap pass or something along those lines. Lane Hudson is tied for the lead in amongst NHL defenseman with his seven assists. Lane Hudson’s eight points is second amongst his position behind only the great Kale Mar who’s on nine points. Hudson on eight points, second most points amongst any defenseman in the National Hockey League to add to Cole Caulfield and where he’s at with his seven goals. So, while we have Cole Cfield on the tip of our tongues, let’s let’s expand. Let me ask you a question I was asking the boys on the morning show today. The player more more likely to represent their country in February in Italy, Cole Coughfield or Nick Suzuki. This is how funny it is. Nick Suzuki. I agree. So, we’re for I McKenna agreed. Simon Celikas went Nick Suzuki. I went Nick Suzuki. And you’re going Nick Suzuki. And I think expand on your reason why Bill Garin baby likes his big boys. Likes his big boys. I don’t know what to tell you. He wants if he’s going to have a bottom if he’s going to have talented guys on a bottom six and with that coaching staff. They like they like their size. They like their identity. We’ll see what I I You want my two cents? I think should be on that roster all day every day for the US. I agree. You know when you have You need goals. More goals. Well, I mean, yeah, they need more goals, but this is also the same team that sat Kyle Connor in the final of the four. So, you know, like I’m not And when you have a Kyle Connor on your team, do you need a Cole Cfield? Like, like we look at all the major goal scorers. Well, I mean, Calvin Picker did not have a better game than Mont. No, he did not. No, he did not. The Canadians are the better team. When you look at Cole Cfield and you look at the way he impacts the game, you know, like clearly a better goal scorer plus five on five player at this stage of his career than than Debrink. So you remove Debrink from the equation. Then it’s really going to be choosing between him and Kyle Connor. Right. Right. If I were to build a team, I’d have both of them on my team because you need goal scorers on this team. You don’t know how you don’t know if Matthew Kachchuck and Brady Kachchuck are going to be at 100% 100%. um you’re going to need depth in that department, but at the same time, if you’re the Montreal Canadians, you really wouldn’t mind if Cole Coughfield didn’t go to the Olympics. Well, and I don’t need to tell you this, but I’ll remind the audience, you know, I don’t know how, you know, if they’re in the weeds to the level that, you know, you are or I am, but I mean, he’s got 10 overtime goals in his career. Um, to me, that’s the case for Cole Coughfield on Team USA. like the point’s well made about how deep they are, how talented they are, but it’s um the situations in which Cole Coughfield has risen to the occasion certainly this season and if he can keep that trend up in terms of the timely goal scoring like how do you not throw that guy over the boards on the third period because of what he’s shown um certainly this year and obviously throughout his career uh with how potent he can be and look at the styles in which he scores those goals, two of them last night of the two different varieties and I think you know the gimme putt when we when I ask you the tough question about more likely to make their country’s Olympic roster for the Olympics in February. Nick Suzuki is just so versatile. Nick Suzuki is such a situational guy. He can play in all situations. You want to play him on a wing, you want a depth center, you want him on a PK, you want him on a power play, like he he he moves about all of those things. And uh that’s I think what puts it over the top to me. And then you got Bill Garren’s comments about Lane Hudson and oh maybe it’s not his time yet and everything else. But you know that’s their country’s program to manage. Uh we just have our opinions in the aftermath of the Montreal Canadians blowing a 53 third period lead to the Edmonton Oilers. Don’t don’t say they blew it. Well, they did. I don’t give a [ __ ] about what the comments say. I have I’ve been in the media business, brother, for 25 years. I have my opinions. My skin is thick. I could take it. I’m not too worried. Um 5-3 is the f 5-3 was the lead. The referees get involved. The netfront presence from the Montreal Canadians uh non-existent for the most part. And we’ll see what the bounceback is on Saturday in Vancouver. But uh you got it. You got it. It took nine games, but Ivon Deidov was on the first wave of the power play. Marco. Um impressions on on how he looked in over 12 minutes of ice time in that game. I mean, I thought he looked noticeable. I think towards the end of the game he was being a little boxed out. I did appreciate the fact that on the only power play that the Canadians had, he was on the first power play wave. I thought that that worked out well. Still not necessarily fond of how it’s set up, but you know, baby steps. He’s on the first power play wave. So, I think that’ll help. The only problem with his ice time, you know, every I had a couple of people complaining to me about this this morning. He was on pace for like 15 minutes and if the Canadians had any power play time of their own, he would have actually increased that total in the third period. But again, you get into the third period, you have three penalties against and you’re defending the lead at the end of the game or you’re trying to you’re trying to at least get the extra point. You you know, it’s normal that he finished with a little bit 15 minutes. Like to me, if the Canadians had not, you know, and the referees had not been so generous with their whistling, uh, he would have had the 15, 16 minutes that he was on on pace to get. Um, yes, I’m sure he doesn’t agree with me, but he’s also emotionally invested in the game. I’m not. I mean, is John is John suggesting, Marco, that when Cole Cfield say, “Hey, congrats on the win.” That he was talking to the referees. Is that is that John’s perception of Cole Cfield’s postgame comments? Well, if you just read the comments. Yes. Yeah. But if you if you if you Cole Cfield is an intelligent person. He left that that comment of and they won it. Good for them. Up to interpretation. Agreed. Of course he was talking about the Oilers. But well, that’s it. If it if it fits your agenda, if you think there’s a conspiracy theory, you’re going to have the opinion that he was talking about the referees, right? Well, I mean, he was there was a side like there’s a reason he positioned it that way. I agree. The thing that I will say the thing that I will say and I think Brendan Gallagher was clear about this in his comments because he was the one dealing with the refs most of the night. Exactly. This is Brendan Gallagher is the one that’s allowed to go and and and yell at the refs as alternate captains and captains are the ones on the ice that are supposed to do so. Josh Anderson had no business doing so. So you want to have that conversation with the refs, you pull them over, you have a conversation, you you know and so on and so forth. I am again one that’s it. Austin nails it. Yeah, that’s it, right? Like wink wink. I just like I’m just I understand everyone everyone’s frustrations. I I really I do. But ultimately it was avoidable. I don’t think anyone can can honestly be on this talk to me with, you know, having cooled off overnight and tell me that the last night’s loss was avoidable. It was avoidable and lessons will be learned from this. You better believe lessons will be learned from this. But now I’d like to actually uncover some of the fantastic things that happened last night on the ice that lead me to believe that the Canadians are in business when it comes to the rest of the season. Because yeah, it’s one loss, but what I saw last night, if the Canadians play like they did last night over the first 55 minutes of a game, exactly. They’re going to be not only a playoff team, they’re going to be a top three team in the Atlantic all day, every day because that was domination at five on five. Did you see the discourse out of Edmonton that this was the fastest team they’ve seen the Oilers play this season? And at five on five, they were the better team. They were all over it. I mean, frig, they scored five goals, man. They scored five goals. They should have won that hockey game, but you’re right to point out uh the positives there in in from Cole Coughfield’s game. And what about Kappan? Kain with the nice distribution. Normally, we see we’ve seen him on the receiving end, right? But nice to see him show some really strong hockey IQ on a great on a great pass that yes, resulted in a goal for the Montreal Canadians. Captain’s game and Alex New Hook’s game. You know, I remember you talking about him on the wing. I mean, that is his chair, man. That is where he’s born to play under Martine St. Louis. Yep. And I honestly he was great on the penalty kill up until the end of this in the end of the game. Unfortunately, it’s really hard to defend what is probably the best modernday power play wave, you know, in the NHL. Um, when it comes to, you know, the way that he was able to find the net, I mean, this week, I think he has five points already. Yeah. Something along those lines. Five. Yeah. Yeah. Five. Yeah. He’s he two goals last night. I think he had a an assist the other night and then I think he had a golden assist the the night before. Five on five. The Canadians were excellent. Yeah. Untouchable. And that second line of Ditov Kaanin and and and Alex New Hook was fantastic in terms of being able to create offense and in terms of playing the speed game, the cycle game, uh affecting the neutral zone. Like they were everywhere. Alex New Hook to me is really starting to find his groove and I think that is very very very good. Well, you you say it, Alex. I think I think it’ll be a really good game. I think it really will be a good game between the two. Yeah. But I think that if Montreal plays the way they played last night in a back-to-back setting, like I don’t think I’d be I’d be making anybody kind of fall off their chair saying this was the best five on five game they played all year. Right. Right. If they could play like this, again, love. If they can play like this, see how stupid I am. I’ll put a comment like that on the screen. You bozo. I just feel like when you look at this uh when you look at the objectively the way that they were moving the puck, the way that things were were being put in motion, I absolutely loved that dynamic. I loved the way that they saw the ice. Like that no adoption pass on the Cfield goal. Oh, baby. Right. Like, oh, baby. Those plays didn’t happen last year, right? That’s the dynamic that’s that’s setting in right now. You’re seeing way more implication from defenseman. You’re seeing guys like Noah Adopts and Mike Matson, Lane Hudson had one heck of a game, too. Being so um aggressive in the way that they go about pushing the play forward and and and feeding the opposition. Like it’s it’s truly to me it’s truly incredible watching how quick they are at counterattacking and trans transitioning. And if you go back and listen to the vision that Kent Hughes had for this team when he took over, this is exactly what he was talking about. Yeah. And so I exactly, John, I believe that they will be more disciplined. Correct. They will be more aggressive. To me, this game was a lesson. It was a serious lesson that Yeah, it’s a twogoal lead, but if if you start seeing the refs are having an iffy game, don’t even bother, guys. Don’t even bother. play your game. And I think that level of discipline is something that has to happen because if the Canadians would have done that, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now. Fans up in arms. Well, that’s it. It’s the thing, too, right? It’s like, you know, we point out the lack of discipline last year. I mean, correct them. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they were top five most penalized team. I want to say fourth in the NHL. I mean, what do we what do we attribute that to? You know, discipline. Lack of discipline. Um, I would say a lot of them last year versus this year were, you know, penalties that were taken out of desperation as well. A lot of out of out of position plays. I find that they’re well better positioned this year. Um, you know, outside of the Mike Mat uh trip on McDavid in the later stages of the third period. I don’t feel like they took a penalty because they were out of position or overwhelmed. Uh, in fact, I would say that it was objectively the opposite. um they all felt like nothing plays and in some cases they weren’t even plays at all if you look at the Josh Anderson penalty. So that to me is encouraging because these are objectively subjective penalties. These are very arguable penalties whereas last year I didn’t find that was the case last year. It was more like why would he do that? Why did he do this? Why did he do that? Uh get you know like arbor jack guy you know he’s a penalty machine. What’s going on? Our Jack guy is not not a penalty machine anymore. Why? Because he’s more often than not in a better position. He’s more often than not getting better support from Alex Carrier or Ela Hudson. So, you’re not being forced to chase the play as much. And I think that to me is the most positive aspect uh in what is probably a very shitty outcome um in in this in this over in this in this loss. I mean, the Canadians absolutely deserved a point. absolutely deserved a point in this game, if not two. I mean, they deserve two, but they at least deserved one. Yeah. And I just feel like ultimately, you know, that that’s gonna that’s going to come back. It’s going to come back in their favor. It already has come back in their favor. They’ve won games they had no business winning in overtime. We’ve seen this before, right? So, I guess law of averages, but to me, the law of averages will win out in the Canadians favor because it’s the details that they’re showing in their game that I think are going to make them consistently dangerous. When you look at the rest of the teams in the Atlantic Division, it’s just not comparable right now. Hey, Detroit got cracked uh by the New York Islanders with a seven spot. Matthew Schaefer over 25 minutes. No points though for the for the stud that is Matthew Schaefer there. The San Jose Sharks go to MSG and beat the Rangers. Looks like Mlin Celebrity had a nice little bounceback game. What did he have? Five points there. Uh Logan [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. A natural hat-tick, right? Uh Logan Culie explodes for the juggernaut Utah Mammoth in the Western Conference. What have they won? Five, six games in a row now. And and uh Logan Coulie had a massive day for Utah there. So, but you know, parody really much is a thing in the National Hockey League. I like this comment. Thanks, Alex. Um, because it reminds me of how many games Brendan Gallagher has played in his career and I still to this day don’t believe he gets the benefit of the doubt. And look, when I think Marco, when it comes to like holding a grudge, there was a Miaulpa on the Slowski goal to be repetitive. Like they they told Gallagher they fudged that one up. Craig Button eviscerated the referees um and their job yesterday. And ultimately Josh Anderson should not escape blame. A guy who’ve been in the league for for 10 years has to control his emotions better, not slam his stick eight times on the ice and do a mock cheer in the face of the referee. That’s what set it all off there. There has to be a little bit more control there. So, my gut says they’re not going to I think the referees know they messed up. They admitted so and I don’t see it as like a grudge against them Canadians. I could be wrong, but that’s just my read. Remember last year with the Rangers, right? Like Marte St. or was it the year prior where Marte St. Louis went to town on on refs uh and a Rangers game that did probably the exact same thing like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And it’s not none of it’s neither of these two guys, right? So like what does the whole league have it out for Montreal? Like look, I understand it was a terribly officiated game. Very inconsistent on both ends of the ice. They admitted that they were wrong on one of those plays. I don’t think that Josh Anderson like I don’t understand why Josh Anderson was ticked off about the Mike Mat penalty. That was a penalty. That was a real penalty. That was a real the penalty. If you had to go to town on the refs that Slowsky boarding I’ve gotten hugs harder than that like come on. Yeah. That that is not the case. But if you’re gonna be frustrated, do it there. Thank you, Charles. Oh boy. I need a drink. It’s 10 11 o’clock. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, brother. That’s the old saying. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere. It’s 5:00 where in exactly 5:00 in Italy. I’m literally calling my great aunt after I’m got so perfe I’m down. I’m down. I’ve been up since 3:30. So I’m ready. I’m ready to join you. I don’t think I slept last night. Um so you know when it comes to when it comes to analyzing this, this is the other aspect I really want to touch on. Yeah. We have been talking since the beginning of the season about how the Canadians have improved their transition game. Right. Last night we saw a little bit of a tweak in terms of how the Canadians were defending. I don’t know if if fans caught on to this, but Mat was playing with Kerier to shut down the McDavid line. I don’t know if if anybody caught that subtle smart move. Smart move. And then and then Dobson played with Hudson. And I just want to add this because I I feel like a lot of these times a lot of these things go like under the radar in certain situations and it’s and it’s fine. There’s so much happening in a game. It’s really fast. Um but sometimes when you go back and you look at them a second or third time and you take notes, some of these things stick out. Noah Dobson and Elaine Hudson is a pairing that everybody wanted to see the second that Noah Dobson got signed. They were fantastic in terms of being able to kill plays, turn the puck around and run with it when they were on the ice together. Mike Mat and Alex Carier were very effective at shutting down McDavid at five on five. McDavid, if I’m not mistaken, got all of his points or at least two of the three points that he had on the power play. So at five on five they did really really good. I don’t think he’s going to galaxy brain the line changes. I don’t think so either. I think it was a situational thing. Yeah. I think you’re trying to counter McDavid, you know. Um and again like Noah Adoptson is just starting to find his legs now, right? In terms of coming back from a groin injury. You saw his mobility last night. It looked good. But as we saw from Mike Mat, it takes a whole other level of mobility to be able to counter McDavid. And with Kaden Goully, who is probably the best combination of skating defensive ability on the team. Yeah. Out. Mike Mat had to be the one to counter that. And I thought he did a really good job of that. And I I I really do want to throw my flowers to him. I think Mike Mat has just been stellar um you know, this season. The one thing I found was a little unfortunate was just the last five minutes of the game. You know, that last goal. Yeah. Yeah. It’s really unfortunate, but if I feel like you have to tie up your guy in that situation to me like you have to tie up your guy like it’s the last minute of the period. Worst case, take a penalty. Exactly. Worst case. Don’t like take a good one. Take a good one. Yeah. This Exactly. Take a good one. Yeah. Yeah. And so like I understand that and that’s just like where I stand with this is yes the Canadians lost 65 but their five-on-ive defensive structure for a team that played backto back last night. The last two games they played I have been I have never been more confident in a Montreal Canadians defense core uh in a long time and that includes their 2021 core. Fair. Fair. But they got they got to you know I’ve said I feel like I’ve said this forever you know but when you get to the blue paint of the tip of the or the top of the goalie crease you know and it’s why like I was you know exaggerating to make a point missing the days of Joel Edmonson or Hal Gil or Shay Weber like I’m old school in my way of thinking sometimes and when you get close to the goalender where you can smell the guy’s deodorant like you got to you got to pay a price. That to me is such a valuable piece of real estate that you got to pay a price. If you want to get in the club and the club is the top of the crease and you want to establish presence there, you got to pay a physical price. And I thought that part got away from the Montreal Canadians at various points last night. That’s why, you know, I said what I said 40 minutes ago. It’s not just one thing that added up to the Canadians losing that game in the manner in which they did. You can point to Sam Montto with the nottimely stop. You could talk about a free pass to the front of the net. You could talk about the referees jobbing the Montreal Canadians. You could talk about the veterans on the Montreal Canadians. Let’s be honest, they lost their composure. Their emotions got the best of them and it all snowballed into this gigantic 65 loss that has people I mean people are angry. People want they’re at a vendetta. They’re out for blood. The conspiracies are out left, right, and center when the Montreal Canadians lost a hockey game. It’s just not as simple as at least I don’t think anyway. I don’t think it’s right to blame Sam Monto. I don’t think it’s right to blame the referees. I don’t think it’s right to blame one specific player or one specific moment. There’s a lot of things, Marco, in my mind that added up to how that game got away from them. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think ultimately it was a cascading of of situations. Um I understand that the Canadians were very, you know, emotional. Um, look, the refs were terribly inconsistent. It’s just, let’s call a spade a spade. Control. Yeah, you can only control what you can control. And what can you control as a player? Your reactions, your body language, the way that Yes, it is. It absolutely. Thank you, Mark. If I could just talk, this is what we’re trying to do here. Like, it’s funny. When we first started the channel and everything else, I wanted this to always be a place where you can have your point of view. You can express your point of view uh with no disrespect, you know, just to get back to you have like we can meet in the middle, you know, we can meet in the middle in terms of oh, you know what, you make a good point. I didn’t think about it that way, you know, and that’s that’s that is so important for me anyway. So, t third eye. I want to add I want to add that I agree with everything that was just said except Sydney Crosby. This mother this mother this mother freaking three points again yesterday. Two goals. Our play Snipe City Penguins are six and two. DO what’s happening? Well, they have as many points as the Montreal Canadians do. Stop, Marcos. It’s Friday. Anyway, guys, I’m just messing you guys. You guys trip me. I I trip you all. um you know and and really this is why we enjoy the comment section. Everyone has just such phenomenal things to add and it really does make it fun. So please do keep it coming. Um I there there’s another thing I really wanted to kind of touch up on and I think we’ve talked about it. Thank you Austin. Thanks Austin. There’s there’s definitely one thing I I think we definitely haven’t touched on that we need to touch on. The Canadians in the faceoff circle man again got caved in. Holy moly. cuz they’ve been really good. They’ve been dominant like I think the No, not the last game, but they they they went on a little bit of a run. No, they’ve gone on a little bit of a run there, but yeah, they got was at like 63 something, whatever. I mean, it was lopsided. It was very lopsided. And what I find insane is that they got caved in the faceoff circle, which means they didn’t start more than like they started 37% of the plays with possession. Yeah. And they dominated possession. Yeah. That’s insane. What does that mean? That means good puck retrieval, killing plays, good transition, and sustained offensive pressure. Yeah. If they can get a solution because I I I do not like I as much as I thought that he was okayish. I do not think that Kirby Doc is a long-term solution at center. I’m sorry. It’s interesting. You can’t win a draw. If you can’t win at least 49 50% of a draw, if you’re going to be a number two or number three center, then you’re already starting at a disadvantage. I didn’t find that Kirby Doc was necessarily implicated last night. There was a lot of soft plays, a lot of missed pucks, a lot of board battles, a lot of missed defensive uh opportunities. And again, like he’s just coming back. I’m still willing to give him time if you wanted me to talk about Doc, but I just felt like that Doc Valeno Bzuk line I really liked Vzerk’s game overall. I thought that he was chippy. I thought he was hitting guys. I thought that he was mouththing. I thought that he was that is the kind of physical implication and and emotion that I want to see because you didn’t see Zakahz going after guys. You didn’t see after refs. he went after the the the opposition’s players, but you didn’t see him complaining about the shifts and and and the way that the refs were were handling their business. So, to me, like that’s the disciplined style of a smashmouth team that needs to be. And so, I really like the way he plays. I think that goal against Calgary has given him a little bit of a little bit of an up. my two cents. Ultimately, I feel like this is he is in the same situation I find that Ivan Demidov was when he first got to the Canadians where he’s basically on an island and he needs help. And this goes back to Sean’s comments about the Canadians needing to find a solution at center to be able to help them. Doesn’t necessarily mean they need to find themselves a permanent 3C, but they definitely need to find a solution at C. uh if they want three lines being able to generate offense on a regular basis because right now against a lot of uh expectation, they’ve got two going and I would argue that the first line has been excessively unlucky when it comes to their uh when it comes to the way that they’re generating offense because they could have had three, four, five goals more last night if they had just been able to convert a couple of them. Yeah. But it’s funny though, like some of the takes on Kirby Dock are a bit harsh. Um, but I get it. You know, it’s still the most glaring need I believe on this team. Uh, what I would also add to that would be a little bit more depth on the back end for the Montreal Canadians as Dubel and Jackie continue to find their way in the absence of what is it’s enormous hole and you know, Marco made some good points when he talked about what Kaden Goulie brings to the table. It is such a difficult spot to recover from, but they’re still six and three. But with everything said about Kirby Doc, I mean, he’s still the better option over Owen Beck and Joshua Dawa. I mean, it is what it is and that’s what and that’s what I see. It’s unfortunate for Joshua, but like he’s probably not going to play again on this trip. That’s why so many people want to see Michael Hayes with the Canadians at the end of the season. Whether or not that’s the best whether or not that’s the best call for his development, I don’t know. um ask me in April and we’ll see how much his game has evolved and we’ll be able to tell from there. Um but the lack of of quality depth at center throughout the entirety of the organization like I know some people are going to be like call up Florian. Well Florian hasn’t necessarily lit up the AHL either, right? Like Yeah. Yeah. That’s that’s kind of where I’m at with this. It’s like you want a guy that can drive play. Michael Hayes is the only center in the entire in the Canadians entire reserve list right now that could viably push the pace at at center uh for the Montreal Canadians. So, I’m just I’m just a little worried because I had some guys basically, you know, shocked that I thought that Michael H could potentially have some AHL time next year if he were to sign with the Canadians. Um I I think that the Canadians will have to find a solution at center. even if it’s a stop gap before they try to put Michael H in that situation right off the bat. So, I had the great fortune of talking with Darren Dreger uh as we do uh every Friday on TSN 690 at 8:35 and I brought up Nasm Cadri’s name uh when I had a chance to pick his brain on filling the 2C role and Darren Dreger more or less said that you know he checks a lot of boxes for the Montreal Canadians. He said he could be a 2C on pretty much every team, any team in the National Hockey League today. All the nonsense that maybe you saw from Kadri’s younger years would be uh they’re not existent in his game today. And further to that uh talked about the timeline, the potential timeline. And again, I I I should have prefaced everything by saying he hasn’t spoken to Ken Hughes about Nasam Cadri. There’s there’s you know as far as Dreger is concerned there’s there’s nothing there today but Calgary is where they are in the standings and they’ve got the Rasmus Anderson thing to figure out in Calgary and then ultimately if the fans want to rebuild you’re not going to rebuild with Rasmus Anderson and Nasm Cadri and that u these are a couple of guys that you can likely see moved and and he mentioned the Montreal Canadians having the capacity to make a move for Nasim Cadri. He threw in the Vancouver Conucks uh as another team that potentially could have what it takes to get him out of Calgary. And I think also mentioned Toronto, but doesn’t believe that the Maple Leafs can match what Montreal or Vancouver could bring to the table. But Nasim Cadri is a possible stop gap, you know, stop gap insert player, guy who’s played who’s going to cross the thousand game uh played threshold here. I mean, I like everything about the guy and, you know, if the price is right, I think Contra would be a great fit in this market if he does, you know, want to come here. No, sorry. I still I I’m of the ilk that if No, no, it’s just I am of the ilk that if Kadri were ever to be made available, there would be a plethora of teams lined up to get him. And I just don’t know that the Canadians would get into a bidding war for a player that would first of all account for $7 million on the cap for an additional for until he’s 39 and then you’re going to have to deal with with what to do with him. Like I personally like the player. I like the player today, but we talked about this the other day. He’s not performing to the level that he was last year so far this season. That to me is worrisome when you start seeing it go down like that. That’s where things get tricky for me. You throw in the NMC, right? The full no movement clause. So, he would be able to decide where he goes. And then at the same time, you have to factor in that he’s probably want going to want to go to a team that’s going to win. I don’t care that he grew up a Havs fan. He’s pro like he’s at the tail end of his career. He’s going to want to go to a place where he’s going to be a contender year in year out. Yes, if he joins the Montreal Canadiens, they will be a, you know, a team to watch in the playoffs for a regular basis. But what happens when his play starts to dip? Are you hoping that Michael Hig will be a bonafide number two center within two years when that eventually inevitably happens? So I think that if the Canadians are going to spend the assets to get a 2C, it would be a permanent 2C. It would be an age appropriate 2C. If they’re going to try to get a stop gap, I think they would probably go for one that would be less cost effective. Unless, and this is the only way I think Sean is right about this, unless Kadri tells the Flames, that’s it. I want to go to Montreal. That’s it. And that to me like when like you talk about the options and I I don’t disagree that there are going to be a lot of teams you know perhaps positioning themselves but I wonder about like how you know obviously a lot has to happen for the Canadians. They got to kind of stay where they are competitively you know and that’s a top three spot in the Atlantic division. How many teams are going to have the future of the Montreal Canadians and be as competitive hypothetically speaking as the Halves? Uh, I think it’ll be a shorter list, but the Canadians, you know, they got to stop and they got to win in Vancouver on Saturday night. And if you missed the intro to the show, yes, I’m dealing with a power failure in my neighborhood. Hydro Quebec first said it beyond by like 10:30 and now they’re saying 4:30. So, here I am on my AirPods Pro and my iPhone to be able to uh along with Marco bring this show to you today as promised on on Friday. And uh so yeah, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just stay on by myself until 4:00 this afternoon because I have absolutely nothing to do today and no power to to kill myself. Marco’s, as you can see, he’s been busy all show here. But, um, if we talk about Sam Montau and like we’re no goalie whisperers, man, you know, and I I don’t want to be dramatic and say I’m getting Kane Primo vibes, but his numbers are just so bad. And I’m not, you know, I’m not big on the on the individual save percentage for a game, but bro, I mean, his his season save percentage was like 842. Kaden Primo was like 836. Like, he’s knocking on Kaden Primo territory like to be to be nasty, you know? When goalies lose their confidence, man, it’s terrible to watch. Yeah. Terrible to watch, right? And he’s really at that point like there there were g there were pucks that he was losing last night off shots and this and that that would ultimately like would have been saved or or retained or iced, you know, that he was just letting go and and and again like you could tell with the goalie playing deeper in his net. Just a guy that overall was just I felt not 100% in it. He was in his head more than he was in the game. And it’s unfortunate and it speaks to the difficulty and the peculiarity of the position that is a goalender. So I am more than willing to continue to give him leash considering how good he’s been for the Canadians in the past. Yeah. That being said, this is not a re this is no longer a team uh that is, you know, devoid of expectations. At a certain point in time, results are going to need to happen. He’s going to need to find his confidence again. This is personally why I would have given him Calgary over uh Edmonton as a start because I thought that he would have an easier time finding his confidence again against a team that’s peppering you from the extremities. But the problem with Sam Montbo right now is it seems to be the perimeter shots that give him the most amount of problems. Yeah, agreed. Right. Agreed. So, it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t moment. And I just feel like ultimately when it comes down to it, you know, he’s just gonna have to you need that one break as a goalender. You need that one game to feel good about yourself where you’re just feeling it. And right now I think that Sam Montbo is just cascading levels of pressure. And the only thing I could say is, you know, the Canadians are very, very lucky that they’ve finally developed some level of depth at the goalending position and the Jakob Dovish is a viable option to take over while Samuel Monttobo figures this stuff out. And how long it’s going to take to figure out Sam Monttobo, I don’t I don’t even think Sam Montto knows. I don’t even think he knows. when he tried to fall asleep last night after that hockey game where the Canadians gave him run support. There were five goals there and uh uh Edmonton was able to pull out the 6-5 victory. So like what’s the number one going into Vancouver? By the way, that’s a 700 p.m. Eastern time zone puck drop. So good for us. Too bad for them. But say Levie, the number one thing the Montreal Canadians cannot I mean cannot repeat if they want to leave one of the best cities in this country with two points in their back pocket. What can they not do again Saturday night? Get in the box. Yeah, like it’s you have to stay out of the box, man. You just have to stop giving your opponents opportunities. Um it’s always about getting to a point with these with with the play that they have. You know, to me, the the Vancouver Canucks are another team that is not very deep at center. If you can win the transition battle, they will beat the Vancouver Conucks. I’m I’m willing to say this right now. Like, if they play the way they played against the Edmonton Oilers, where they were quick on the counterattack, they were strong along the boards, they owned the center of the ice, they were able to maintain offensive zone pressure. If they are able to play this way, they will beat the Vancouver Conucks. Yeah, the Edmonton Oilers were beat outside of getting three or four four power plays in the third period. They were beat. It was done. If this game is mostly played at five on five, the Canadians will beat the Bank of the Conucks. So, let’s keep it at five on five. I couldn’t believe they lost. I can’t believe they lost that game last night. I went to bed, they were they had the lead. I couldn’t believe that when I woke up, how many more goals were scored? I mean, I hate the fact that um that’s the that’s the shitty part, you know, about early mornings and and everything else. And trust me when I say I love what I do um in my career. I love going to work every day. I truly I mean that. Um but that’s the downside of morning radio. You know, it’s like you miss you miss great games, you miss great football games, baseball heroics, and um the circumstances in which, you know, a game like last night against the Montreal Canadians um got away from them yesterday, you know. So, that’s a tough one. And I think it’s going to be another one of these um where um I’m going to have to take another nap today because yeah, I need my Z’s, you know. So I I mean I watched 40 minutes of the hockey game, you know. I watched 40 minutes of that game, but uh come third period and everything else. Man, that was a tough one. And I’d like to see I’d like to see, you know, the Canadians be mentally strong here and have a nice push back and, you know, leave it behind you. Leave it in Edmonton. I get it. You’re pissed off. I get it. Um, the referees job you. I feel that. I get it. It’s a normal normal, excuse me, reaction to have. But that’s the type of stuff to me like when I think about great athletes and their ability to like overcome and not impose a tremendous amount of self-doubt, you know, that you can leave that game in Edmonton. Saturday’s a different circumstance, different game altogether. I firmly believe YaKob Dovish, not a hot take by any stretch. Yakob Dovish between the pipes gives this team a better chance to get back on. And like we talk about regularly, like the really good teams, the top three teams, the division leading teams, they stop the losing, they stop the bleeding, they figure it out, and they solve that puzzle. And if we want to pretend and think seriously, credibly that the Montreal Canadians are that team already this season, then let’s see that answer on Saturday night. Um, and you talk about the depth, you know, about the Vancouver Conucks and everything else. I don’t know. Playing a Saturday afternoon home game. Like these guys are such creatures of habit. Like I got maybe there’s a little angle there. I don’t know. I don’t know about playing a Saturday afternoon game. Maybe that plays to the advantage of the Canadians a little bit because Vancouver’s lost two in a row. So maybe just add up the bad stuff. You know, I think ultimately when it comes to the timing of it, you know, I don’t think the the timing of it really makes a difference. The Canadians played two late games and the latest game on the second game was the game that they outplayed the the opposition the most. Right. So I I think this is a young team. Shouldn’t be very difficult in terms of a timing perspective for them to wake up for a game. Youngest team in the league. Got younger with Patrick Ly out of the lineup. Imagine. So this is a team that is more than willing and more than able to be able to execute. Uh that it’d be a late game early game matinea 700 p.m. prime time. I’m not necessarily worried about that. Could it potentially affect the Vancouver Conucks preparation? That’s a completely different question. Uh, and you know, one that I think Thomas Dance and other very qualified Vancouver Conucks based beat reporters are probably going to be able to answer better than me. But what I would say is Vancouver right now is primed with pressure. Yeah, agreed. Is primed with being able to produce and with Heedle out, their center depth is exposed. And so I feel like this is where the Montreal Canadiens can take advantage. And I feel like the Montreal Canadians defensive core, especially their top four right now, are better structured in my opinion to be able to execute a game that would overwhelm the Vancouver Conucks on a more regular basis. Uh that’ll do it for the Friday live show. Uh thank you so much for being a part of it. And I get it. An emotional reaction. A game that the Montreal Canadiens had and refereeing, goalending, lack of discipline, net front protection, all were big whiffs uh last night in Edmonton. But we’ll see how this team responds. Uh mentally up to the task. Physically, they’re there. Second second leg of a backto-back three games and four nights, man. Like they brought the juice. They outsceded the Oilers. They were the better five on five team. But uh sometimes the world as we know is a very unfair place and that’s the way she goes. So we’ll be back on Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. to recap the Habs and Vancouver Conucks. Look forward to reading more of your comments and reacting uh to all of your takes as we always do right here. Um so we’ll be bir enjoy your Friday. I hope you enjoy your evening and enjoy your families and enjoy the weekend and make sure to be back here on on Sunday morning uh with Diko and Star uh in the post aftermath of the Canucks and Montreal Canadians. Marco, have yourselves a good day. Have a good weekend everybody.

The Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers played a back and forth game where the Habs took a 5-3 lead in the 3rd period, bad penalties, bad refs, and a blown 5-3 lead turns into a 6-5 loss in Edmonton!

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