{"id":437676,"date":"2026-01-31T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/437676\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:02:24","slug":"martin-st-louis-makes-a-key-decision-after-canadiens-win-over-the-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/437676\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin St-Louis makes a key decision after Canadiens\u2019 win over the Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMartin St-Louis makes a key decision after Canadiens\u2019 win over the Colorado Avalanche&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>All Montreal Hockey has no direct affiliation to the Montreal Canadiens, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/638306.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Martin St-Louis\" title=\"Photo of Martin St-Louis\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens played an excellent game against the Colorado Avalanche last night at the Bell Centre, and Martin St-Louis made a decision after the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis\u2019 group may have played its best game of the season in front of its fans.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Suzuki recorded 3 points, and it can be said that he played a leadership role within the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>The captain thanked the crowd after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada\u2019s Nick Suzuki with a message for Habs fans at the Bell Centre:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for the support. We\u2019ll see you guys in a month. Hopefully I\u2019ll bring the gold medal home for you guys. That would be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis makes a decision after the big win<\/p>\n<p>The head coach decided not to hold a practice for the Canadiens today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I expected no Habs practice in Brossard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Stu Cowan<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis wanted to give his team a break after the excellent performance.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the head coach will have several complex situations to manage over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Patrik Laine situation is becoming increasingly interesting, as it is unclear whether he will wear a Canadiens uniform again before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Canadiens will play two games before the Olympic break, including an important one tomorrow against the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on All Montreal Hockey<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>16 HOURS AGO|217 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Martin St-Louis makes a key decision after Canadiens\u2019 win over the Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>Is Martin St-Louis right to stop tinkering with his line combinations?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,971,144,5,909,412,264,21,5147,4,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-437676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-cole-caufield","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jakub-dobes","13":"tag-martin-st-louis","14":"tag-montreal","15":"tag-montreal-canadiens","16":"tag-montrealcanadiens","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nick-suzuki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115988434400940581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}