(8-4-2) Vancouver Canucks 0-2 Montreal Canadiens (9-5-1)
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Last night in Montreal, Carey Price outplayed Luongo as Price made 34 saves for his second shuttout of the year (which ended the Canucks 6 game win streak).Andrei Markov opened the scoring on a rebound and Hamirlik added a powerplay goal in the third to make it 2-0. But what happend to the Canucks on this night? They just couldn't score."It's always disappointing to lose, that's first and foremost," Luongo said. "It's the first game of our road trip and we really wanted to get off to a good start so it's going to be important to regroup (Wednesday), have a good practice and come ready to play against the Senators."In the lose, Luongo played well as he made 27 saves on 29 shots.
It wasn't Luongo's falt that they lost it was Carey Price. So far this season, Price Silenced the critics by being able to win games for Montreal. Don Cherry said on Coaches Corner "that it was a mistake to get rid of Halak because Price can't play in Montreal. But if he was on a different team he would do better." But it seems to me Price can do well in Montreal. That's what he has proven with this great record of 8 wins 5 losses and 1 ot loss, with a Save Percentage of .918 and a goals against average of 2.28 inculding 2 shutouts.
Overall Price played great so far. In the final minute of the game, Price had the puck on his stick and went for the empty net but it didn't go in. But how would that have been if it went in?"That would be pretty cool," Price said. "But nowadays the pressure is up the middle. You'd need to get a lot of wood on it." The Habs next game will be Thursday against Boston on NESN (us),RDS-HD( Montreal) and TSN-HD(All TSN networks) at 7:00pm E.t.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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