Home ice was not kind to the Habs this past week. They lost all three games including two in blowout fashion and to make matters worse, they got bad injury news on three key players.

After a pair of clunkers on home ice during the week, the Habs put forth a better effort on Saturday against Boston. However, it wasn’t enough for the win as the Bruins skated away with the 3-2 victory.

The Habs are going to be without a pair of core players for the foreseeable future following some announcements from the team on Friday afternoon.  Meanwhile, the team also announced that Jared Davidson has been recalled from Laval.

The first couple of weeks in November provided some ups and downs for the Habs. Topics covered in our latest podcast include analysis of those games, Kirby Dach returning to form, a possible Olympic chance for Cole Caufield, and much more.

After a tough outing against Los Angeles on Tuesday, the Habs were hoping to rebound on Thursday as they hosted Dallas. It didn’t happen. Instead, the visitors put up seven goals on 19 shots to leave with a 7-0 victory.

As the Habs passed through their third five-game segment of the season, there are some strong individual performances that stand out but is a league-high shooting percentage sustainable the rest of the way?

The Habs have struggled against Los Angeles in recent years and Tuesday’s game at the Bell Centre was no exception. While they led after the first period, the Kings scored five unanswered from there to win 5-1.

The Habs haven’t gotten off to a great start to the month of November and lost two of their three games this past week. However, with both of those losses coming after regulation, they still managed a solid four points in the standings to stay atop the division.

The Habs didn’t get off to a great start on Saturday against Utah but once they took the lead in the second period, they didn’t look back. They put forth their best offensive performance of the season, beating the Mammoth 6-2.

For years, the hope in Montreal’s rebuild was that they’d continue to add high-end offensive pieces to their roster. In Lane Hutson and Ivan Demidov, there are some early justifiable comparisons to a pair of star players, one active and one retired.