The Canadiens made the necessary plays required to keep their playoff hopes alive, and it came against the best team in the regular season. (via EricEngels)
MONTREAL — They were two subtle plays, but game-defining ones made by the youngest player on the. Made with the stakes at their highest and a chance to remain in the hunt for a playoff position hanging in the balance.
“There’s not a single guy I think on this roster tonight that was not engaged, and we needed that” said Canadiens coach Claude Julien afterwards. “We had a mission to win this game,” said Julien. “We knew if we got discouraged, we had no chance. Those are things you learn over the course of a season and I think we understood that lesson and we’re currently applying those learnings.”
They needed to take the game to a Lightning team that was playing its third game in four nights and the second half of a back-to-back, and they put 19 shots on net in the first period. They needed to stay disciplined, and they managed to by not giving the top-ranked power play in the NHL a single opportunity. They needed to be the better team from wire to wire, and they were in registering 45 shots and 92 attempts and limiting Tampa to just 24 shots and 52 attempts.
It was less than three minutes after the Lehkonen goal that Kotkaniemi, who was the only Canadien to not record a shot attempt in the game, came up with those two plays to get the puck out of harm’s way. “We kept our heads down and we kept pushing and pushing the pedal and really forechecked them and tried to keep our minds right even when those bad bounces happened,” said Lehkonen.
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