Team Effort Triumphs
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So this is what it’s like to have a really good hockey club. For too long the Canadiens have struggled to ice a competitive team, and we’re over-achieved over the last couple of years, I believe.
So this is what it’s like to have a really good hockey club. For too long the Canadiens have struggled to ice a competitive team, and we’re over-achieved over the last couple of years, I believe.
Yann Danis made his NHL debut tonight and shut out the Atlanta Thrashers thus backstopping the Canadiens to a 2-0 victory in Atlanta.
La nouvelle profondeur du Canadien a pour effet de créer un esprit de compétition entre les joueurs, ce qui les force à redoubler d’efforts pour convaincre l’entraîneur de leur faire une place au sein de l’alignement partant.
The Thrashers are off to a good start both offensively [15 goals, 2nd in the NHL], and defensively [6 goals against], after their first 3 games.
This is one of those nights where you watch the game and you just don’t know what to think at the end. We were up, were the better of the two teams, then we sunk into oblivion for the third.
A weak third period let the Canadiens down tonight as they lost their home opener to the Ottawa Senators by a score of 4-2.
The Habs open up their home schedule against the also-undefeated Ottawa Senators tonight from the Bell Centre.
The Ottawa Senators visit the Bell Centre in Montreal tonight to take on the Canadiens in a battle of the last two unbeaten teams in the Eastern Conference.
Since I’ve been receiving a good bit of mail for each piece that I’ve put together, I’ve come to the decision that it’s time to put together a weekly column to answer some of the questions and comment on some of the things mentioned.
I’m not sure anyone would have predicted us coming out of the first three games, with two against massive rivals, with six points.