Work is too hard
The downcast at their lockers after Saturday’s defeat against the Senators in Ottawa, the Canadian players repeated all he had to quickly learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them the next day against the New York Rangers.
But when it came time to move from words to deeds, the meaning of the cliche does not seem to have been assimilated.
For the second time in 24 hours, the Canadiens squandered the lead he had built against a team that hunts down the classification of the Eastern Conference. The Rangers, who lost four of their five previous games, had the air of aspirants to the Stanley Cup on Sunday in a 6-2 victory at Madison Square Garden.
Having built a two-goal lead through the game inspired the first third, the Habs had collectively fallen into second and found himself completely overwhelmed by the work of Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky and Marian Gaborik. The Rangers needed eleven minutes to take the lead, a few punches to intimidate the visit and that was it.
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“It was an opportunity to assert our team and unfortunately, in both parties that we played, we gave up two shorthanded goals, and too many goals against our top lines,” summed after Jacques Martin Part.
“With the advance, we could play a better game on the road. We complicate life for the rest of the season,” Michael Cammalleri anticipated.
“We have to face two teams with whom we battalions classification and we lost every time. In two games, we were not ready to win our battles for 60 minutes, lamented Brian Gionta.
Callahan, who cracked the match that ignited the powder in the Rangers early in the second, fed the blaze until the end of the match that concluded with two goals and two assists. Dubinsky (2-1) and Gaborik (1-2) each have three points. The aim of the latter was his 29th of the season.
“We did not follow the system. We commit too many turnovers, our attendance is too long, simply analyzed Jaroslav Spacek.
Chris Drury scored the sixth goal unanswered Blue Shirts late in the third period.
Cammalleri (22) and Gionta (13e) have foiled Henrik Lundqvist in the first period.
“We played a great first period during which they conceded their only two scoring chances. But they dominated the rest of the match. We do not keep the game simple and we do not take enough shots,” he continued the coach.
Alone on his island, Halak has appeared overwhelmed. He could stop only 28 shots.
The Canadian has thrown only 20 times on Lundqvist, including two in the second period.
Ranking in the East, the Rangers went to the Senators in sixth place with 52 points. The Canadian, who has 50 points, is treading water in ninth position.
A good batting eye
Cammalleri scored his 22nd of the season at 3:30. He has accepted a fine pass from Tomas Plekanec, who entered on the right wing, and has housed the disc in the upper right of the net over the glove of Lundqvist.
Then Gionta, who had missed a golden chance to increase that lead on a raid to two against one with Benoit Pouliot at the eighth minute, has picked up dramatically during a power play at 14:50. Posted to the left of Lundqvist, back to the keeper, the diminutive striker struck the wing a rebound of Marc-Andre Bergeron and managed to push the puck into the net.
The goal was awarded after officials had appealed to the replay. The Canadiens power play came at once to be more productive than the day before, when he was scoreless in six chances against the Senators.
Goals and mayhem
But it suggests that there is a switch somewhere in the Canadian, someone fun to turn from one period to another.
Callahan scored his team to the table at the 57th second of the second third. After escaping surveillance by Paul Mara at the left of Halak, as he had to file his stick on the ice to gently redirect a perfect pass to Gaborik behind the red line.
The quick and fiery striker redid sparks midway in the period. The Canadiens had just won a bet in play to begin a powerplay to 4 cons 3 when the small bomb Rangers grabbed the puck and took to their heels between two defenders. His shot was blocked by Halak, but Dubinsky followed closely and hit the rebound on the fly to tie.
It was the second time in as many games as the Canadiens concede a goal while a man advantage.
Dubinsky gave the Rangers the lead less than three minutes later with his tenth of the season. Gaborik collected a second pass on the game
The Tempers flared thereafter. Aaron Voros has dug up the hatchet in Andrei Markov sternly, prompting Josh Gorges and Travis Moen to get involved. Gorges eventually drop the gloves at Sean Avery, who made his usual antics after delivering a draw in Canadiens defenseman.
Another skirmish erupted before the end of the period, the result of a check from Tomas Plekanec on Enver Lisin. The main highlight of the gathering was a fight between Benoit Pouliot and Wade Redden. No advantage over the map of judges.
The Canadian was unable to take advantage of a penalty on Michal Rozsival to tie early in the third. The Rangers have not missed their mark when the same opportunity presented itself. As Pouliot was in prison, Callahan, yet he has deflected a point shot that barely crossed the goal line. The decision was so difficult to make that official left the game and went further confirm their doubts to replay the whistle.
Gaborik was then approached to a goal by Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin in the race for the Maurice Richard Trophy before seeing Callahan collect his fourth point of the meeting on the purpose of Drury.