Canadiens Lineup

Cole Caufield – Nick Suzuki – Kirby Dach

Juraj Slafkovsky – Jake Evans – Josh Anderson

Evgenii Dadonov – Christian Dvorak – Mike Hoffman

Michael Pezzetta – Jonathan Drouin – Joel Armia

Joel Edmundson – Kaiden Guhle

Jordan Harris – Johnathan Kovacevic

Arber Xhekaj – Chris Wideman

Jake Allen – Sam Montembeault

Rem Pitlick

Carey Price (knee), Paul Byron (hip), Mike Matheson (lower-body), Brendan Gallagher (lower-body), David Savard (upper-body), Sean Monahan (lower-body)

Game Report

Entering tonight, after playing 30 games this season, the Anaheim Ducks had just one win in regulation time. Now they have two. And that came at the expense of the Montreal Canadiens.

The Ducks were smarting from being shutout twice this week by the Senators and the Maple Leafs, by a combined 10-0 score. But it was Anaheim who scored twice in a 28 second span in the first period to take a 2-0 lead to the first intermission. The Canadiens were lethargic and sloppy in the opening frame.

Montreal was riding an 0-for-20 streak on the power-play in the past five games and had fallen to 32nd in the league with the man advantage. But they were facing the worst penalty-kill in the NHL. Anaheim was able to nullify the first three Montreal advantages in this game but Cole Caufield scored with Simon Benoit in the box early in the third period.

Caufield picked up his second goal of the game but the Ducks were able to regain the lead on John Klingberg’s second tally. The Canadiens suffered the embarrassment of handing Anaheim just their second regulation victory.

The reverse retro jerseys – versions 1.0 and 2.0 – have just one win in eight games worn.

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