Last night in Toronto, the Montreal Canadiens were dominating play all over the ice by getting pucks on goal and scoring big goals on the powerplay. Of the top line of Tanguay, Koivu and Kovalev, the one that has improved his game it is Alex Kovalev.He had 1 goal and three assists in last nights 6-2 shellacking over the Maple Leafs."Well I'm probably playing as good as I have been all year," said Kovalev. "Like I've said many times, sometimes you try to do too much on your own instead of using your partners. Right now I kind of know more about the players that I'm playing with.You've got to believe in this team," he said. "That's the only way you can make the changes."With the 6-2 victory by the Habs,they now sit just 1 point back of the 6th place Penguins.
We're trying to grab as many points as we can and move up the standings," said forward Chris Higgins. "The confidence in the room is back that's pretty obvious to tell.I think we've got four games left here and if we continue to play the way we've been playing the last couple games, then we'll have the right mindset for the playoffs." If the Canadiens continue to play like this they will become a Stanley Cup contender in the playoffs.
The only bad news for the Habs is that Defenceman Mathieu Schneider left yesterday's game with an so called "upper-body injury." In the first period another Canadiens defenceman Andrei Markov was hit hard by Mikhail Grabovski with seven minutes to play."I don't really have any idea how it will unfold," Gainey said. "But I'm hoping that they'll be available to us to play on Monday against Ottawa."
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
Photo by Andrew Di Pardo
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ReplyDeleteThey are most likely improving as I said they would.