Shea Weber was in uniform, Antti Niemi played a strong game, and the defencemen played a strong third period to get the Habs a win to close off their back-to-back set as they beat Detroit 3-2.

An early injury to Shea Weber and a tendency to hang around the perimeter proved costly as the Habs fell 1-0 to Minnesota on Monday night.

The last time the Habs lost this soundly, it was a complete team no-show versus the Bruins. On Saturday, the Habs provided effort, but the Nashville Predators were having none of it as they came away with the 4-1 win.

The Habs played a strong first period, then they blocked a ton of shots and relied on their all-star the rest of the way as they handled the Canucks 2-0 on Thursday night.

In what can only be described as a full team effort for the better part of 60 minutes, the Habs were able to skate away with a 5-3 victory in Florida on Friday night.

In a somewhat Jekyll and Hyde performance, the line of Phillip Danault, Tomas Tatar and Brendan Gallagher led the charge in the scoring department as Danault scored his first career hat-trick as the Habs picked up a 4-3 overtime win on Saturday in Vegas.

A textbook defensive effort on the road in a back-to-back allowed the Habs to leave Arizona with two points on Thursday night earned mostly by Carey Price.

Carey Price was all alone on Monday night as the Bruins dominated the Habs with apparent ease en route to a 4-0 victory in Montreal’s final home game of 2018.

The floodgates opened in the third period on Thursday but the Habs once again bounced back from a terrible outing on Tuesday to claim a 6-4 victory over the Hurricanes.

What happens when Antti Niemi plays his first game in weeks on the same night that the team absolutely mails it in? If you guessed a 7-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night, you’d be very accurate in your assessment.