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Guhle, Heineman Impress | RECAP: WPG @ MTL

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Guhle, Heineman Impress | RECAP: WPG @ MTL
Emil Heineman, Montreal Canadiens (Photo by NHLI via Getty Images)

GAME RECAP | Montreal Canadiens vs Winnipeg Jets: Habs, Line-up, Score, Statistics, Highlights, Post-game, Interviews, NHL, Three-Stars

FINAL | Pre-season Game 3 | Thursday September 29, 2022
Bell Centre, Montreal, QC

CANADIENS

Montreal

3-4

Winnipeg Jets logo

JETS

Winnipeg

Emil Heineman, Montreal Canadiens (Photo by NHLI via Getty Images)

Canadiens Lineup

Forward lines

Cole Caufield – Kirby Dach – Emil Heineman

Evgenii Dadonov – Christian Dvorak – Brendan Gallagher

Joshua Roy – Brandon Gignac – Alex Belzile

Xavier Simoneau – Riley Kidney – Danick Martel

Defence pairings

Kaiden Guhle – David Savard

Chris Wideman – Arber Xhekaj

William Trudeau – Mattias Norlinder

Goaltenders

Jake Allen – Cayden Primeau

Scratches

Jake Evans, Sam Montembeault, Joel Armia, Jonathan Drouin, Mitchell Stephens, Joel Teasdale, Otto Leskinen, Jesse Ylonen, Corey Schueneman, Nate Schnarr, Lucas Condotta, Cam Hillis, Owen Beck, Mike Hoffman, Juraj Slafkovsky, Rem Pitlick, Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Filip Mesar, Anthony Richard, Michael Pezzetta, Jan Mysak, Mike Matheson, Justin Barron, Jordan Harris, Gianni Fairbrother

Injuries

Nick Suzuki (lower-body), Josh Anderson (lower-body), Carey Price (knee), Paul Byron (hip), Joel Edmundson (back), Madison Bowey (day-to-day), Logan Mailloux (shoulder)

Game Report

Are you worried yet? Contrary to some social media commentators, the pre-season does matter. At least to hockey people. Habs management has to be mildly concerned.

It’s not only three losses to open the pre-season but the lack of offence. In three games, Montreal has scored four goals, three via the power-play. While that may be good news for Cole Caufield‘s PP forecast, one even-strength goal in three games for the team should be somewhat alarming.

And it’s not as if the Canadiens have been facing top-tier goaltending along the way. The home team managed just 10 shots in the first 44 minutes of tonight’s contest and that was aided by three power-plays.

Speaking of the man advantage, Montreal got back into this game via a power-play that they probably didn’t deserve. It’s the pre-season for the officials as well. Tonight there was a veteran referee and linesman paired with a linesman in his second campaign and a rookie referee.

The 30-year-old referee is Cody Beach, a fifth round draft pick (134th overall) in the 2010 draft. That was 13 spots ahead of Brendan Gallagher who was tonight’s second star. Beach played 123 games in the AHL where he amassed 495 minutes of penalties.

As far as the rookies in red, tonight’s standouts were Kaiden Guhle and Emil Heineman. In his 18-and-a-half minutes of ice-time, Heineman played seven-and-a-half minutes of power-play time and is looking more comfortable each game.

Guhle had his first goal of the pre-season and led the team with seven hits. It’s fair to say that the 20-year-old defenceman is a lock for the opening night roster.

Up Next

After the game, the Canadiens announced that Joshua Roy and Riley Kidney have been sent back to their respective junior teams in the QMJHL.

The Canadiens have a date in Ottawa on Saturday as they face the Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre.

Plus

▲  Cole Caufield, Kaiden Guhle, Brendan Gallagher, Emil Heineman, Christian Dvorak

Minus

▼  Cayden Primeau, Alex Belzile, Brandon Gignac, Joshua Roy, Mattias Norlinder, Evgenii Dadonov, William Trudeau, David Savard, Chris Wideman, Danick Martel

The Numbers

Game Statistics
CANADIENS   JETS
25 Shots 25
53 Face-off % 47
2-for-8 Power Play 0-for-3
10 Penalty Minutes 18
25 Hits 25
25 Corsi For 39
Scoring Summary
FINAL 1 2 3 OT SO T
Canadiens (0-3-0) 1 0 2 3
Jets (2-1-0) 1 1 2 4
Scorers Goalies
  • MTL: Guhle (1), Gallagher (1)-PPG, Caufield (2)-PPG
  • WPG: Polei (1), Maier (1), Lambert (1), Schmidt (1)
  • MTL: Allen, Primeau (L) (0-2-0)
  • WPG: Rittich, Holm (W) 

Stars of the Game

Official NHL Three Stars
NHL3stars
  1. Cole Caufield  MTL
  2. Brendan Gallagher  MTL
  3. Nate Schmidt  WPG

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What Did They Say?

Post-game Quotes

David Savard

  • “You see the level [Kaiden Guhle] can reach, his potential is very high. He can become an extremely dominant player eventually and he is starting to be. He’s not afraid to make plays and that’s what it takes to play in the NHL.”

Quotes courtesy of NHL.com

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