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Matchup Edge: Montreal vs San Jose

Danick Bourret

Montreal (34-25-6-2) at San Jose (32-16-11-6)


Habs victory against Devils placed them 2 points from the 6th rank in the eastern conference. This evening, the Canadiens, will try to get their 6th straight victory. They open a trip of 4 games and they will have to face Phoenix, Los Angeles and Anaheim. The troop of Claude Julien will matchup against a hot team because the Sharks have won four of their last 5 games (4-0-0-1) and six of their last eight games to give them the 1st place in the Pacific Division. San Jose is now 6 points ahead of Dallas. Alexei Kovalev will finally not be in uniform this evening, it would have been his 4th game in 5 nights.


Projected Montreal Lineup
























LW
C
RW

Perreault (1-0-1, -1)
Koivu (1-5-6, +2)
Zednik (1-2-3, +2)

Dagenais (0-2-2, +1)

Ribeiro (2-2-4, +3)
Ryder (3-2-5, +3)

Begin (1-0-1, +1)
Juneau (1-0-1, +1)
Dackell (0-1-1, +1)

Langdon (0-0-0, 0)

Kilger (0-0-0, 0)
Ward (2-0-2, +1)

(G-A-PTS, +/-) – Last Five Games








































MATCHUP EDGE

Montreal
Edge in:
San Jose


Offense
X


Defense
X

X
Power Play


Penalty Kill
X

X
Intangibles



Overall
X





















































Recent Meetings
Date Home Away
3/6/2003 SJ 4 MTL 3
12/17/2002 MTL 1 SJ 3
1/27/2002 MTL 3 SJ 1
3/12/2001 SJ 3 MTL 0
11/23/1999 SJ 2 MTL 3
11/16/1999 MTL 1 SJ 4
3/22/1999 MTL 1 SJ 1
11/24/1997 MTL 2 SJ 2
11/7/1997 SJ 3 MTL 4
2/10/1997 MTL 4 SJ 2

Current Team Standing







































Team
G
W
L
T
OTL
Pts
Standing
GF
 GA
Home/Road
Montreal
67
34
25
6
2
76
4th, NE
168
151
15-14-2-2 R
San Jose
65
32
16
11
6
81
1st, PA
168
137
17-5-7-2 H


OVERALL






















































































































Montreal San Jose
Shots Goals % Shots Goals %
Period For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga
1st 9.0 8.4 0.73 0.55 8.1 0.934 9.4 9.1 1.00 0.38 10.7 0.958
2nd 9.4 10.0 0.84 0.82 8.9 0.918 9.3 9.8 0.69 0.83 7.4 0.915
3rd 9.0 9.2 0.87 0.85 9.6 0.907 8.4 9.3 0.88 0.80 10.5 0.914
OT 0.4 0.4 0.07 0.03 19.2 0.926 0.7 0.8 0.02 0.09 2.3 0.891
Total 27.8 28.0 2.51 2.25 9.0 0.920 27.8 29.1 2.58 2.11 9.3 0.927
Special Team






























Montreal San Jose
PP PK PP PK
Goals 48.0 45.0 42.0 39.0
Attempts 271.0 249.0 273.0 263.0
% 17.7 81.9 15.4 85.2
Montreal Goaltenders






















Name Shots Saves GAA % W/L
J.Theodore 1543 1426 2.12 0.924 27-23-5
M.Garon 329 299 2.44 0.909 7-4-1

San Jose Goaltenders






















Name Shots Saves GAA % W/L
E.Nabokov 1214 1126 2.01 0.928 22-15-7
V.Toskala 672 625 2.11 0.930 10-7-4


Top Leaders Matchup







































Player
Montreal
San Jose
Goals (FW)
Zednik (20)

Marleau (27)
Assists (FW)
Ribeiro (37)
Damphousse (23)
Points (FW)
Ribeiro (54)
Marleau (48)
Plus/Minus (FW)
Ribeiro (+13)

Ekman (+15)
Goals (D)
Souray (15)

Stuart (5)
Assists (D)
Souray/Brisebois (20)
Stuart (21)
Points (D)
Souray (35)

Stuart (26)
Plus/Minus (D)
Brisebois (+14)

Rathje (+15)

Injuries





Montreal Injuries





















Player
Pos
Injury
Status
Niklas Sundstrom
LW
Concussion
Maybe March 11
Jan Bulis
C
Leg
Late March
Sheldon Souray
D
Knee
Late March

San Jose Injuries





















Player
Pos
Injury
Status
Kyle McLaren
D
Head
Day-to-Day
Mike Ricci
C
Shoulder
I-L
Milan Michalek
RW
Knee
Out for Season

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