Canadian 4 – Bruins 9 | It was one of those evenings

(Boston) We can probably throw away this theory according to which the Canadian is playing up to his opponents.

Because on Saturday night in Boston, the Canadian wasn’t exactly up to par, giving away the puck like so many gifts in his zone, offering too soft play along the boards, and allowing the locals to make a little what they wanted around Samuel Montembeault, who ended up getting taken out of there after the eighth goal.

Final score, after all that: Bruins 9, Canadian 4. Yes, it was that bad.

“It’s unacceptable,” sighed defender David Savard. We cannot leave our goalkeepers in such situations. »

For the Canadian, it was so humiliating that at the end of the evening, the fans here started singing sarcastic Ôlé ôlé ôlé in the square. A little later, they started shouting “we want 10, we want 10!” “.

Yes, it was time for it to end.

“It’s hard to find the words after the third period we had,” explained Mike Matheson. The first two periods weren’t perfect, but we were still in the match, we were fighting. Then we had to find a way to attack and have a response, and we didn’t have one. »

In the same breath, the veteran defender admitted that the club had a little morale in its heels during this awful third period. “We had answers in first and second, but not in third. You have to give them credit for the way they play… There’s a reason why they are where they are in the standings. »

We can remember many things from this Saturday evening in Boston, but we first remember the number of goals allowed. Nine goals is the highest total of goals allowed by the Canadian this season, the highest total since the March 16 match against the Florida Panthers.

By way of comparison, note that the New England Patriots, who are no longer very good and who play not far from here, have had six games this season where they scored fewer points than the Bruins on Saturday night. We don’t know if it’s more embarrassing for the Patriots or for the Canadian.

In short, we will all have understood that we cannot beat the Bruins by allowing so many goals.

“There’s not a lot of positive that we can take from a match like that,” noted Montembeault, who introduced himself with panache to answer questions after the match. You have to erase everything and forget about it. I’m going to put this in the trash…”

Then, Martin St-Louis made a point of saying that the first two periods had been good, and David Savard said the same thing, but that’s precisely the complicated part: a match is three periods, not two . The Canadian allowed four goals in the third period.

There are those evenings where the Canadian seems far from the top. Saturday night was one of those nights.

Rising

Sean Monahan

By far the best of the club with three points.

Falling

Jayden Struble

A very difficult evening for the young defender.

The number

3

The number of points for Sean Monahan, and at this rate, the veteran could bring big returns to the Canadian on the transaction market.

In details

Caufield again

Is Cole Caufield a “sequence” player, as we like to say among seasoned experts in the field? In any case, the question arises, and the answer is perhaps yes, because the Canadian striker is experiencing exhilarating moments. So his power play goal in the first period on Saturday night was his fifth in the team’s last five games. In total, that makes him 16 for the season.

Two power play goals

In addition to Caufield, Mike Matheson also scored a power play goal during Saturday night’s game, during the second period in his case. If we calculate correctly, that gives a two-goal power play game for the Canadian. A rarity? Not so much recently, since this is the second time in four games that the Montreal club has scored a two-goal night with a one-player advantage, this feat having also been achieved during last Monday’s game at the Bell Centre, against the Colorado Avalanche.

A celebration because we must celebrate

The Bruins are celebrating their 100th anniversary this season, and every reason is good to celebrate something. On this very cold Saturday evening in Boston, the Bruins brought in a dozen members of the 1987-88 edition of the club, which had won nothing but had reached the final against the Edmonton Oilers. Why, then, celebrate the 1987-88 club? Because these Bruins had (finally) eliminated the Canadian that spring, a first playoff victory in 45 years against the Montreal club. We therefore showed images of this series on the giant screen, but we forgot Michael Thelven’s ax blow against Stéphane Richer, a gesture which had taken the Canadian player out of the series.