The Canadiens headed into the Olympic break in the NHL schedule sitting in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 32-17-8 record. They were 15 points ahead of their pace from last season, when they had a 26-26-5 record after 57 games and went on to earn the second wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
According to Hockey-Reference.com,<\/a> the Canadiens\u2019 odds of making the playoffs for a second straight season are 89.9 per cent.<\/p>\n If the Habs \u2014 the youngest team in the NHL \u2014 do get into the playoffs, are they good enough to win a series or two after getting eliminated by the Washington Capitals during the first round last season?<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n That\u2019s the question answered on this Hockey Inside\/Out Show bonus episode, as The Gazette\u2019s Stu Cowan is joined by former Canadiens teammates and 1986 Stanley Cup champions Rick Green and Brian Skrudland.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll have one more bonus episode coming up during the Olympic break and will be back with our weekly Hockey Inside\/Out Show on March 4. If you haven\u2019t already done so, please subscribe to the Hockey Inside\/Out YouTube channel<\/a>. The Hockey Inside\/Out Show is also available on Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens headed into the Olympic break in the NHL schedule sitting in second place in the Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[2216,43079,53603,265,2217,5,264,21,5147,4,38276,906,109,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-452189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-brian-skrudland","10":"tag-cameron-bartlett","11":"tag-canadiens","12":"tag-eastern-conference","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-montreal","15":"tag-montreal-canadiens","16":"tag-montrealcanadiens","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-rick-green","19":"tag-samuel-montembeault","20":"tag-washington-capitals","21":"tag-winnipeg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116041407836090279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452189","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=452189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}