After a Western road trip yielded little success, the Habs were looking to turn things around as they returned home to host Tampa Bay on Tuesday night. However, they couldn’t overcome a disastrous first period, ultimately falling 5-3.
As is often the case, Montreal’s road trip out West wasn’t the most successful in the standings. While they had one of their best outings of the season in Vegas, that was the only point they were able to muster up.
The Habs welcomed back Christian Dvorak to the lineup on Saturday night in St. Louis but they were out-skated and out-hustled by a Blues team that was playing their third game in four nights, falling by a 6-3 score.
The Habs have been able to recover from third-period deficits this season but they weren’t able to repeat that on Thursday night in Arizona, falling 3-2 to the Coyotes.
The month of October was a pretty good one for the Habs, all things considered as they posted a 5-2-2 record for the month with some veterans leading the way. Vote now for your three stars.
The third week of the season was one to forget for Laval. They had two road games and struggled both defensively and in goal for both of them. That’s not an ideal combination and the end result was two more losses.
It was a successful week for the Habs who picked up three wins out of their four games, two of which involved multi-goal comebacks. For the time being at least, they’re a top-ten team in the NHL.
It took another multi-goal comeback but the Habs were able to pick up their fourth win in the last five games on Saturday night, skating away with a 4-3 shootout victory over Winnipeg.
Topics in this edition of our podcast include Montreal’s start to the season, Joshua Roy’s hot start in Laval, Cayden Primeau’s future with the Habs, and much more.
Montreal got off to a slow start on Thursday night against Columbus but they were able to bounce back in the second half of the game, eventually forcing overtime where Cole Caufield potted the winner in a 4-3 victory.