The hecatomb continued to take completely disproportionate proportions for the Canadian.
Jonathan Drouin and Brendan Gallagher fell in battle and the Montreal team suffered a 4-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes Thursday night at PNC Arena.
A few minutes before the start of the meeting, the Habs announced that Drouin was weakened by a virus unrelated to COVID-19 and that he would therefore miss the match. Badass Brandon Baddock replaced him and made his career debut in the NHL.
For his part, Gallagher did not return to the game in the third period. The Canadian did not immediately offer more details.
The Canadian was already deprived of 13 players for reasons related to COVID-19 and six others by virtue of injuries.
Unlike Tuesday, when the Habs had shown great things in a 5-4 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Canadian was never in the game against the Hurricanes.
Teuvo Teravainen scored two goals, while Nino Niederreiter and Seth Jarvis also hit the target for the Hurricanes (22-7-1). Jaccob Slavin had three assists, and Sebastian Aho had two, while Antti Raanta turned back 26 shots to be credited with a 14e quarry laundering.
Samuel Montembeault made 32 saves in net for the Canadiens (7-22-4), who was shut out for the fourth time this season.
The Hurricanes won the special teams war, scoring three power play goals on five occasions. They also hit the nail on the head.
For its part, the Habs were 0-for-5 in numerical superiority.
The Canadian will play his next game on Saturday afternoon, when he visits the Florida Panthers.
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The Canadian had a good time early in the game, but was unlucky as Jake Evans reached the post after 1:07 of play.
The Hurricanes finally opened the scoring on the power play after 10:46 of play. Niederreiter took advantage of a comeback to beat Montembeault.
The local players seemed to take off after that first goal and they quickly widened the gap, this time outnumbered, to 13:29. Teravainen took advantage of a pass from Aho in a two-on-one attack. a.
The Canadian got an opportunity to close the gap before the end of the first period, but Cédric Paquette in turn reached the post.
The Habs shot in the foot in the second period being punished three times.
Montembeault kept the fort until Teravainen beat him with a receiving shot with 2:59 left on the throw-off on a power play.
The Canadiens’ only good chance in the second period belonged to Lukas Vejdemo, but he was unable to beat Raanta on a comeback halfway through the line-up.
Jarvis nailed the Habs’ coffin with 9:08 left in the third period, again on the power play. He completed a passing game started by Slavin and Andrei Svechnikov.