Game #13 ~ Montreal Canadiens @ Minnesota Wild. Wednesday, November 2nd, 2017.

[Clues]

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Montreal Canadiens (4-7-1) @ Minnesota Wild (4-4-2)

TV: FS-N, RDS TSN2 

8:00pm

SAINT PAUL - With three wins in their last four games, the Canadiens arrive in Minnesota with a renewed sense of optimism as they begin a three-game road trip in the Midwest.

On Monday, the Habs rallied from an early deficit and exploded for eight goals in Ottawa, defeating the Senators 8-3. Charles Hudon scored his first two career NHL goals, Artturi Lehkonen got his first two of the season, and four other Canadiens got pucks by Craig Anderson in the winning effort.

Al Montoya stopped 25 of 28 shots for the visitors.

On Wednesday, head coach Claude Julien confirmed that Carey Price would return between the pipes to face the Wild. He has a 4-5-0-0 lifetime record against Minnesota with a 3.01 goals-against average and .891 save percentage.

The coach also announced that while Andrew Shaw did not practice, he would accompany the team on the road trip. After Minnesota, the Habs will face the Jets on Saturday and the Blackhawks on Sunday before returning home.

The Canadiens have scored 18 goals in their last four games, collecting wins against Florida and the New York Rangers at home in addition to the win over the Sens on the road in that span.

Last season, Montreal went 0-2-0 against Minnesota. The Habs lost 4-2 at home to the Wild last December, and 7-1 at the Xcel Energy Center in January.

Chris Stewart, Eric Staal and Jared Spurgeon sit atop the Wild's scoring list with eight points each. Forward Zach Parise, who scored 19 goals and 23 assists for Minnesota last season, was injured during training camp and underwent back surgery last Tuesday. He is expected to be out eight to 10 weeks.

After losing their first two games of 2017-18, the Wild have played .500 hockey. In their last game, on Tuesday, they fell 2-1 to the Winnipeg Jets, three days after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins by that same score.

After the Canadiens, Minnesota plays at home against the Blackhawks on Saturday before embarking on a four-game Eastern conference road trip, which includes a stop in Montreal next Thursday.

https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/news/pregame-game-preview-canadiens-at-wild/c-292507914

[jwlk]

any lines?

[kinot-2]

Thanks for the GDT, Clues

1 hour ago, jwlk said:

any lines?

Here's the practice lines from yesterday. Mind you, Shaw is a game time decision. 

Practice lines from yesterday:

Lehkonen - Drouin - Byron
Pacioretty - Danault - De La Rose
Hudon - Plekanec - Gallagher
Galchenyuk - McCarron - Mitchell

Mete - Weber
Alzner - Benn
Davidson - Petry

[jwlk]

32 minutes ago, kinot-2 said:

Thanks for the GDT, Clues

Here's the practice lines from yesterday. Mind you, Shaw is a game time decision. 

Practice lines from yesterday:

Lehkonen - Drouin - Byron
Pacioretty - Danault - De La Rose
Hudon - Plekanec - Gallagher
Galchenyuk - McCarron - Mitchell

Mete - Weber
Alzner - Benn
Davidson - Petry

ty not a fan of these lines, but who cares they dont

[kinot-2]

Shaw will play,,, but who comes out,,, DLR? 

[kinot-2]

Parise, Coyle, Ferraro, are all injured, or possibly sick,,,,, either way they're not playing. 

[maas_art]

48 minutes ago, kinot-2 said:

Shaw will play,,, but who comes out,,, DLR? 

Either that or DLR moves to Mitchell's spot & he comes out.  My guess is that CJ was using DLR as the placeholder so that his other 3 lines could practice in-tact. 

[maas_art]

I think its going to be a tight game (no more 8 game outbursts) but I think we'll come up with the W.   3-1  with Price having a "Pricean" performance. 

[kinot-2]

14 minutes ago, maas_art said:

I think its going to be a tight game (no more 8 game goal outbursts) but I think we'll come up with the W.   3-1  with Price having a "Pricean" performance. 

Fixed

[kinot-2]

DROP THE PUCK!!!!!!!!!!! 

[vegasrick]

3 hours ago, kinot-2 said:

Shaw will play,,, but who comes out,,, DLR? 

[BigTed3]

Wow, Price had no idea where the puck was and didn't seem to be in a hurry to find it.

[BigTed3]

Zero urgency in Price's movements... with your net empty and the puck in your crease, you'd think a goalie would dive back for the puck.

[kinot-2]

Just now, vegasrick said:

Why aren't you watching the LV game? 

[BigTed3]

I forgot Hemsky was on the team until Pierre Houde just mentioned he was still hurt.

[vegasrick]

Just now, kinot-2 said:

Why aren't you watching the LV game? 

Unlike you.....I can do more than one thing at a time.  See:

[vegasrick]

Stupid Prunes scored.  BOS 1 VGK 0 in the 2nd

[BigTed3]

1 minute ago, vegasrick said:

Stupid Prunes scored.  BOS 1 VGK 0 in the 2nd

That's hot helpful for either one of your teams.

[vegasrick]

Just now, BigTed3 said:

That's hot helpful for either one of your teams.

I know.  I blame kinot.   

[kinot-2]

2 minutes ago, vegasrick said:

Stupid Prunes scored.  BOS 1 VGK 0 in the 2nd

LV has some goalie injury issues. 

[vegasrick]

Just now, kinot-2 said:

LV has some goalie injury issues. 

Right?  Imagine how well Montreal would be doing on their FOURTH string goaltender.  

[habs_93]

That was an incredibly bad rebound.

[BigTed3]

And now Carey makes the save and then completely loses his balance and falls out of his net to allow the goal. He looks awful. Not sure what happened to him, but he's been terrible this entire season, save the first game.

[BigTed3]

Yank Carey. Deserves to sit.

[habs_93]

Man.