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Habs end five-game highway stretch with 3-2-0 document, enhancing to 10-10-2 on season, and can face Panthers Thursday evening at Bell Centre.
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The Canadiens had purpose to smile on their flight again to Montreal after Wednesday evening’s recreation in Columbus.
No person would have been smiling greater than Joel Armia.
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Armia scored the successful objective at 17:03 of the third interval, deflecting in a degree shot from Mike Matheson, and Gustav Lindström added an empty-netter two minutes later because the Canadiens beat the Blue Jackets 4-2 at Nationwide Enviornment.
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Alex Newhook and Cole Caufield additionally scored for the Canadiens, whereas Patrick Laine and Yegor Chinakhov scored for the Blue Jackets.
This was the fifth straight highway recreation for the Canadiens, who completed the stretch with a good 3-2-0 document, enhancing to 10-10-2 on the season, whereas the Blue Jackets fell to 7-13-4.
The Canadiens referred to as Armia up from the AHL’s Laval Rocket for the second time this season forward of Saturday’s 4-0 loss to the Kings in Los Angeles, however the 30-year-old ahead was made a wholesome scratch for that recreation. Armia now has two targets within the seven video games he has performed with the Canadiens, together with 6-3-9 totals in eight video games with the Rocket.
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“It feels nice each time you rating,” Armia instructed reporters in Columbus after the sport. “Simply going to take all the nice issues away from this recreation and transfer ahead.”
Armia, taking part in on the third line with Sean Monahan and Josh Anderson, completed the sport with three pictures in 16:26 of ice time and had a plus-2 differential.
The Canadiens can be again in motion Thursday when the Florida Panthers go to the Bell Centre (7 p.m., TSN2, RDS, TSN 690 Radio, 98.5 FM). It’s the primary of 4 straight residence video games and the Canadiens will play seven of their subsequent eight video games on the Bell Centre, the place they’ve a 5-6-0 document. Goalie Cayden Primeau flew again to Montreal early on Wednesday and can begin towards the Panthers after Samuel Montembeault made 26 saves in Columbus because the Canadiens outshot the Blue Jackets 31-28.
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The Canadiens look like utilizing a three-goalie rotation now with Montembeault, Primeau and Jake Allen. Montembeault improved his document to 5-3-1 with a 2.73 goals-against common and a .910 save proportion.
The Canadiens acquired off to a sloppy begin defensively towards the Blue Jackets and had been outshot 13-9 within the first interval, which included two horrible giveaways by Caufield within the defensive zone. After the sport, Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis famous that his workforce had just one turnover within the first 10-12 minutes of the sport, however then had six or seven extra earlier than the primary interval ended.
The rating was nonetheless 0-0 after the primary interval and the Canadiens acquired off to a sluggish begin within the second interval with Laine opening the scoring on the 3:40 mark when the groups had been taking part in four-on-four. The Canadiens acquired caught on a foul line change and Laine blew previous defencemen Matheson and Justin Barron earlier than slipping the puck previous Montembeault.
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Newhook evened the rating at 7:36 of the second interval lower than 15 seconds after he had hit the put up. Chinakhov put the Blue Jackets up 2-1 at 9:47 of the second interval after a failed clearing try within the defensive zone by defenceman Kaiden Guhle. Caufield tied the rating once more at 14:08 of the second interval, banging in a rebound of a Christian Dvorak shot after Juraj Slafkovsky had made a pleasant breakout cross from the defensive zone.
Newhook and Caufield at the moment are tied for the workforce lead with seven targets every. Caufield has 2-1-3 totals within the final three video games and has 7-11-18 totals this season, tying him with Nick Suzuki (6-12-18) for the workforce lead in factors. Matheson had two assists towards the Blue Jackets and is third in workforce scoring with 5-12-17 totals. Slafkovsky has 1-4-5 totals within the final seven video games.
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St. Louis had reward for Armia after the sport.
“Military’s been a professional,” the coach instructed reporters in Columbus. “He’s gone all the way down to Laval and performed effectively down there and produced. Tonight he will get a possibility and performs a superb recreation.”
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Whereas the Canadiens return residence with a successful document on this five-game highway stretch, they’ve a 5-8-0 document in November earlier than wrapping up the month towards the Panthers. Two of their 5 wins this month had been in additional time and one was in a shootout.
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“It’s such a tough league,” St. Louis instructed reporters in Columbus. “You’ll be able to’t anticipate we’re going to get it completed with 4, 5, six, 10 guys. It’s a bunch choice and we want all people on board and we had that tonight. … I’m pleased with the outcome tonight, the (highway) journey as effectively.
“The final recreation of a visit isn’t all the time simple,” the coach added. “As nice as we really feel tonight about the way in which we performed, we acquired to begin throughout tomorrow.”
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