SEASON SERIES<\/p>\n
This is the third and final regular season meetings between the Isles and Canadiens this year. New York is 1-1-0 in the season series, with a 4-3 overtime win back on Feb. 26 and a 7-3 defeat most recently on Mar. 21.<\/p>\n
CANADIENS NOTES<\/p>\n
The Canadiens are also playing the back end of a back-to-back set and fell to the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Saturday night. Cole Caulfield and Josh Anderson scored the Canadiens\u2019 goals, while Jakub Dobes made\u00a028 saves in the defeat.<\/p>\n
Montreal (104 points) is third place in the Atlantic Division and tied with the Tampa Bay Lightning (104 points). They trail the Buffalo Sabres (106 points) for first place in the Atlantic. The Canadiens have already clinched a playoff berth.<\/p>\n
Caufield comes into Sunday night as the NHL\u2019s second-leading goal scorer, as his 51 tallies are one back of Colorado\u2019s Nathan MacKinnon for the league lead. It\u2019s Caufield\u2019s first-career 50-goal season. The winger is on a three-game point streak, with three points (2G, 1A) in that stretch. \u00a0Caufield recorded five points (3G, 2A) in the Mar. 21 meeting against the Isles, ranks second on Montreal with 88 points (51G, 37A) in 79 games this season.<\/p>\n
His linemate, Nick Suzuki, is also riding a three-game point streak, with four points (1G, 3A) in that span. He tallied four helpers the last time out against the Islanders. Suzuki is tied for seventh in the NHL with 99 points (28G, 71A) this season.<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson has just three points (1G, 2A) in six games this month and was kept off the scoresheet last time against the Islanders but is ranked fourth among NHL defensemen with 76 points (12G, 64A) this campaign.<\/p>\n
Noah Dobson was expected to make his return to Long Island for the first time since being dealt at the NHL Draft, but his status is up in the air after leaving Saturday\u2019s game with reported thumb injury. Dobson played six seasons for the Islanders, racking up 230 points (50G, 180A) in 388 games.<\/p>\n
Montreal\u00a0leads the league with 1,311 blocked shots this season. They also take great care of the puck and have conceded the fewest giveaways (1,073) of any team this year.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens’ power play\u00a0(23.2%) is ranked 10th in the NHL this season.<\/p>\n
Montreal\u2019s penalty kill (78.0%) ranks 20th in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEASON SERIES This is the third and final regular season meetings between the Isles and Canadiens this year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-550859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116389978032413023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550859","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=550859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}