Montreal bounces back to win Game 2 | TSN Postgame Hot Zone

0:00 Thank you, Jan.

0:01 Alongside Carlo Kolakavo, Frankie Karado, and our hockey insider Darren Drager.

0:04 And a couple themes continued for the Canadians tonight.

0:07 Their ability to win on the road

0:09 and the fact that they keep responding following losses.

0:12 They have yet to lose back-to-back games in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

0:15 And Frankie, they spent much of game one trailing.

0:18 Then they flipped the script in game two on route to a huge win in Buffalo.

0:21 There was a real hunger for the Montreal Canadiens in this game.

0:24 It started early and this was a puck possession masterclass for them.

0:28 They got right after the Buffalo Sabres

0:30 and completely flipped the script from what we

0:32 saw in game one where it's too hard to have to play from behind against Buffalo,

0:37 especially if you're going to make mistakes.

0:39 [music] And Montreal, they played a clean game.

0:42 They did exactly what they were supposed

0:43 to do and they capitalized on their chances.

0:46 And in game one, we saw Montreal [music] feed into the Buffalo Sabres game plan.

0:50 And in this game, it was Buffalo making some

0:52 mistakes early and Montreal taking full advantage of it.

0:56 And if you think of what Buffalo wants to do, they have a lot of [music] skill.

0:59 They have defensemen that want to get up in the play.

1:01 They want to have the puck.

1:03 Montreal had the puck.

1:04 Buffalo couldn't get to their game plan.

1:06 It was exactly what the Canadians needed to do and they did it.

1:09 You know, Frankie, throughout the playoffs, everyone talks about momentum.

1:12 Does it carry over from game to game?

1:13 And coming out of game one, a lot of people said,

1:16 you know, oh, Montreal can't play with the speed of Buffalo.

1:18 They're Buffalo's too big for them.

1:19 Well, credit to Montreal Canadian coaches.

1:21 They didn't panic.

1:22 They didn't They do what they did.

1:23 They've done what they've done all series, all all first round,

1:26 even all all all uh season where they just calmed things down with the group.

1:30 They went in, they reset, they refocused and they came out with a different

1:33 mindset and they focused on playing their own game.

1:36 And when they play their own game, they're really fun to watch.

1:38 Yeah.

1:38 I mean, Marty St.

1:39 Louis, we talked about that right after game one.

1:41 He said, "Look, I have to rewatch the game.

1:43 We'll make adjustments." So, you know,

1:44 they poured over the video and they prepared their team for game two tonight.

1:49 So going into game three, it's going to be easier video sessions.

1:53 I mean, they'll pay attention to the uh details,

1:55 but we know that there was a higher

1:57 level of urgency from Montreal's standpoint in this game.

2:00 And as Frankie said, it was also much cleaner.

2:02 And another big game for Alex New Hook,

2:04 who who makes it three nothing on his second goal of the night.

2:08 But the play begins 20 feet away.

2:11 And it's your opportunity to give some love to a fellow defenseman.

2:13 Yeah, Noah Dobson makes the play of the game for me because, you know,

2:16 it's a textbook defensive play in the in the in the playoffs where

2:19 you tell defenseman to sacrifice and take a hit to make a play.

2:23 Well, did he ever take a hit to make a play on this one because he goes back,

2:26 this is on the penalty kill.

2:27 He knows their guy's coming in on him.

2:29 He sacrifices body, makes a strong play,

2:31 and allows Montreal to go up the ice right at the end of that penalty kill.

2:34 And Jake Evans with an unbelievable pass to New

2:37 Hook who uses his incredible speed to beat the defenseman.

2:40 Already feeling pretty good about themselves

2:42 for scoring the first goal in the game

2:43 and scores a big one at a big time in the game.

2:46 It was two nothing and the allimp important next goal

2:49 in that game was three nothing for Montreal and it felt

2:52 like that was what allowed Montreal to continue to play

2:54 the rest of the game the way they wanted to play.

2:56 So hell of a play by Dobson on that one.

2:58 Yeah, I mean, Alex New Hook is obviously feeling it right now.

3:01 And I wonder if it just stems from his heroics

3:04 in game seven against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

3:07 I mean, we know that offensive players, forwards [music] especially, I mean,

3:11 you get a taste of that success,

3:13 it can breed into the next game, into the next series.

3:16 And this was a go-ahead goal scored by Alex

3:18 Newa below the goal line in game seven.

3:21 Everything on the line and yeah, it's a bit lucky, but it goes in the net.

3:26 It's a huge uh switch and and push for the Montreal

3:30 Canadians at that point and it's carried over into round two.

3:33 So, we'll see what's left.

3:34 Uh probably a lot, frankly, from Alex New Hook,

3:37 but probably Buffalo is looking a little closer at him now as well.

3:40 Well, and Alex New Hook is an important

3:42 player for this team for a couple reasons.

3:44 First of all, he's a Stanley Cup champion.

3:46 He brings valuable experience to a young

3:48 group that is going through this whole thing,

3:51 not for the first time, but they're still relatively fresh.

3:53 That's the first thing.

3:54 The second thing, we could all sit here and go

3:57 through who the top four forwards are on the Montreal Canadians.

3:59 It's Suzuki, Caulfield, Demi Doof, Slavovski.

4:03 Who's the next best forward?

4:04 You could make a very good point that it's Alex New Hook.

4:06 He's that next tier of forward.

4:09 So, it's really important that he contributes.

4:10 And to Drags and Carlos point, he absolutely has contributed in a big way.

4:15 You know, the final score makes it look pretty one-sided.

4:17 There were moments in this game though

4:18 that Buffalo was pushing and there are some

4:21 timely saves by Yakob Dobish that helped the Canadians earn a win in game two.

4:25 Speaking of which, let's hear now from the Canadians goalender who's new on SC.

4:29 Here's Yakob Dobish.

4:34 Good.

4:34 Um I feel like we play with more fire and uh with more

4:38 effort and I feel like we are getting used to the series.

4:42 Um, yeah.

4:44 So, we we're going to keep improving and uh excited to go back home.

4:48 See, they try to get under your skin a little bit in the second period.

4:51 Just How much fun do you have with that?

4:53 Seems you

4:54 uh No, I mean I don't think so.

4:58 Like I do my stuff.

5:01 I don't really focus on what they are saying or anything like that.

5:05 So, um personally, I didn't notice anything crazy tonight.

5:11 Was tonight?

5:12 Yeah, everyone was good.

5:13 Uh [clears throat] my ideas were really solid today.

5:15 So thankful for them and um yeah,

5:18 hopefully we'll play together as a team and uh defensively good uh on Sunday.

5:23 Yeah.

5:24 So

5:24 you talked about did you feel tonight it was more easy

5:27 for you to track the puck maybe less traffic in front of it?

5:34 Uh we I need to look at it.

5:36 I don't I mean I trust my DS.

5:38 Um definitely we improved some stuff from the last

5:42 game but uh uh yeah it was good.

5:44 Few chances were last time they the guys were talking too many rush chances.

5:49 You feel that they they got rid of Yeah.

5:52 Yeah.

5:52 Yeah.

5:52 I mean they are such a skilled team and uh

5:55 they have so many so much talent on that team.

5:57 So limiting them in a in a space and in rushes always helps.

6:02 Then um yeah, I feel like we improved a lot from the game one from myself,

6:07 the team, and uh we are looking to stay

6:10 hungry and um repeat the same thing on Sunday.

6:13 Looking at the heat,

6:14 well, it was Nick Suzuki adding the empty net,

6:17 his third goal of the playoff so far, and the Canadians captain is new on SC.

6:23 Uh there wasn't too many adjustments.

6:24 Uh just continuing to play our game, I think.

6:26 Uh you know, trusting the forche.

6:30 um you know playing man on man uh against them can

6:33 be tough but thought all the guys uh did a great

6:36 job of you know managing it and um making plays

6:40 and [snorts] I thought it was a great night for everyone.

6:43 You've been hit a lot I mean as a team but you still make the plays and how

6:47 does it what does it say about the you

6:49 know the the resilience of the of your [snorts] teammates?

6:52 Yeah I mean guys are willing to make a play

6:54 uh take a hit to make a play on news goal.

6:58 Dober gets blown up behind the net,

7:00 but still gets the the puck to Jake for uh you know,

7:02 the quick kind of two on two and uh

7:05 those are super important plays and um you know,

7:08 guys are you know playing really hard for each other.

7:11 What would you say about what brought for you guys tonight?

7:13 Yeah, I thought he was great um right from the start you know seemed uh you

7:18 know after that goal just continue to dominate

7:21 the whole game and u big on the PK.

7:23 Uh their line generated a lot five and five as well.

7:26 So, uh, big effort from those guys.

7:28 What makes Evan so easy to play with?

7:30 [snorts]

7:31 I think he's just super smart, knows, uh, you know,

7:34 knows his role, knows what he's he's doing out there for his teammates,

7:37 uh, trying to get, you know, his guys and, um,

7:42 the puck and, you know, going, you know, winning in dirty areas.

7:45 So, um, he's he's got to play with for sure.

7:47 Dope's a fiery D's a fiery guy.

7:49 Well, it's a huge night for Alex New Hook with a pair of goals.

7:52 He is now at the podium speaking to the media.

7:57 Question is for Alex.

7:58 Uh saw video of you doing the lineup read.

8:02 Looked pretty fired up.

8:03 Just uh what made you ready to put

8:05 in the type of performance that you put in today?

8:08 [snorts]

8:09 Yeah, I think uh I think as a group we knew we needed a big effort tonight.

8:12 Um you know, a bounce back, a bounce forward game and yeah,

8:16 when you get the lineup where you just try to supply some energy there

8:18 early and um just tried to carry that into the game and you know,

8:22 I think throughout the lineup um a lot of good games.

8:24 I think we were able to, you know,

8:26 roll through our lines and um deliver a pretty solid effort

8:29 and uh was a pretty big game here in game two.

8:33 Question for you, Alex.

8:34 Uh you were not used to play with the Jake Evans on your line.

8:38 How do you feel the the chemistry

8:39 start going and it was pretty successful tonight?

8:42 Why it was successful between you guys?

8:45 Yeah, I mean I think uh Jake Jake's a great player.

8:48 He plays the right way um on both sides of the puck and he's pretty predictable.

8:52 Well, I think, you know,

8:52 I've played with him um a little bit throughout uh throughout my time here,

8:56 and I think we always play pretty well together.

8:58 So, um it's fun.

8:59 We play together on the kill, too.

9:00 And um I think we found some chem chemistry here.

9:03 So, just got to keep that rolling.

9:06 What a couple of days it's been for Alex New Hook.

9:08 Uh earlier, we heard from Jakob Dobish.

9:10 I I liked how he was playing down the hole.

9:12 I'm not actually hearing what they're saying to me

9:13 with because there's a lot of conversations happening on the ice.

9:17 He's letting his play do the talking though in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

9:20 He's 4-0 after losses.

9:22 In those four wins, he's given up a combined six goals.

9:26 And again, didn't have to stand on his head tonight,

9:29 but he did what was the difference maker when the Sabres were pushing,

9:32 especially in that second period.

9:33 He's he's such a unique goalender and unique personality

9:36 because sometimes you see him go out of the net.

9:38 It can be a little bit of an adventure

9:40 and even with the way the scrums transpire,

9:43 sometimes some goalies want to get right out of it.

9:45 They want nothing to do with it.

9:46 He's right in the battle.

9:47 He's fiery and he's competitive and that helps a guy like Yakob

9:51 Dovish when you know the team needs a spark coming into this game.

9:55 They had that with the way they played but the goalender

9:58 is locked in and that is something that we

10:00 have been accustomed to for a few months now

10:02 for Yakob Dovish and the way this game shook out.

10:06 Montreal had the puck a lot.

10:07 The Buffalo Sabres did not get a chance to wear down Yakob Dovish.

10:12 It wasn't like he was spending 2 minutes of Dzone

10:14 time going up and down and side to side.

10:16 So, the team did their job, he did his job,

10:19 and chances are usually that is the recipe for a win uh in this game, too.

10:24 Especially,

10:25 what's really impressed me with Dobish, not just through this playoffs,

10:27 but throughout the whole season, if you watch them from the start of the season,

10:30 he got hot and then he got his first

10:32 loss and he got really emotional after that first loss.

10:35 And in the playoffs, your emotions can range from very high to very low,

10:39 especially against a series against the Tampa

10:41 Bay Lightning where he went seven games.

10:43 What I loved is you saw the maturity in his emotions.

10:45 He didn't let bad goals.

10:51 He could have done that instead.

10:55 So, what I what I really enjoyed watching not

10:57 just a great play that he's provided as a rookie,

10:59 but the maturity that you've seen in his game right from the start of the season

11:02 and and off ice are giving him the full experience, too.

11:05 I mean, you're talking about again a rookie goalender in the heat of the moment,

11:09 round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

11:11 Obviously, he has to be the best player on the ice

11:14 or one of the best players on the ice for the Canadians.

11:16 And they roll him out postgame no matter what.

11:19 And he stands in there and [clears throat] he answers all of the questions.

11:23 I mean, this is stuff that is going to just

11:27 round out his game on and off the ice moving forward.

11:29 It's interesting.

11:30 Through two games, we've seen both

11:31 sides really capitalize on their opportunities.

11:34 Obviously in game two it was the Canadians doing it and the narrative after

11:38 game one was Montreal's miscues leading to you

11:41 know a lot of chances for Buffalo.

11:42 You flipped that script and it was

11:44 a tough night especially for Buffalo's top line.

11:46 Yeah.

11:46 And all the talk coming in was Montreal needed more from their topline

11:49 guys cuz you know Buffalo's topline players showed up in game one.

11:52 Well it was a a comedy of mistakes from the Buffalo players that played

11:57 on the top line that really allowed Montreal to take over the game.

12:00 This is early in the game.

12:01 Payton Krebs, he blows a tire, turns the puck around,

12:04 and I love how Montreal goes right on the attack right away,

12:07 gets the big early first goal.

12:09 Then late in the period,

12:10 Ta Thompson at the end of the shift trying to do a little bit too much.

12:13 Great job by Kerier.

12:14 He goes full.

12:15 Alexander Ovetchkin barred down and in off the off the off wing.

12:19 Two goals by defenseman for the Montreal Canadians.

12:22 You know, a stellar effort defensively.

12:24 And again, this is a game where Montreal's best players

12:27 showed up even though it wasn't on the score sheet.

12:29 It's interesting with both of these teams because in game one,

12:31 Montreal made the mistakes, Buffalo Buffalo capitalizes.

12:34 Game two, Buffalo makes the mistake and the Habs capitalize.

12:38 What happens when both of these teams

12:40 go head-to-head and no one's making the mistakes?

12:43 Does it turn into does it turn into a chess match?

12:46 Is it highflying?

12:47 It's probably not going to be high-flying

12:48 because if there's no mistakes being made,

12:50 there's not going to be these crazy rush chances.

12:52 Again, it almost feels like with both these teams,

12:55 they're mirror images of each other.

12:58 And right now through two games,

13:00 one team has made the the vast majority of mistakes in each game.

13:03 And they're gaining production, you know,

13:05 near the bottom of their lineup when it's a tough night for the top line.

13:09 It's yet another good night for Zack Benson.

13:11 I mean, we keep talking about this young guy because he deserves it.

13:15 You know that when he's on the ice, he's going down swinging and sometimes

13:19 that's making a a creative offensive play.

13:22 Sometimes that's trying to get under the skin of the opponent.

13:25 And more often than not, he's in that agitating role.

13:28 And we saw that here in front of you after Dovish.

13:30 Sure, he gets mixed up.

13:31 [music] Look at Mat like grinding Zack Benson's head down towards the ice.

13:36 And he oversells it a [music] little bit like, "Oh jeez, something hurt my head.

13:39 Hit the ice." All of that stuff.

13:41 But the battle continues as the period wears on.

13:43 That's one versus two.

13:45 Montreal defenders trying to get out.

13:47 He sees an opening.

13:48 He goes to the post and he's there.

13:50 He's square.

13:51 He makes sure he's got his stick on the ice and scores a pretty big goal

13:55 and he's not leaving that celebration without giving

13:58 Yakab Dovish [music] an earful on his way by.

14:01 So he brings a little bit of everything which is

14:04 incredible when you look at that young guy's birth certificate

14:07 and if you know Buffalo again hasn't been in the playoffs you

14:10 know the last couple years last 15 years they win the Atlantic division

14:14 this year and I think there it's a lot of new for people

14:16 right who are the players on the Buffalo Sabres this is how you

14:19 make a name for yourself in the playoffs if you're Zack Benson you

14:22 go out and you play like that you score goals like that you

14:25 get into scrums like that now you start getting people's attention and you

14:28 can see he's embracing it he loves and we love to watch it.

14:32 Pretty good from a guy who hasn't hit his 21st birthday.

14:34 Yeah, that too.

14:35 Our reaction continues from Buffalo,

14:37 including from the Sabres head coach as Lindy Ruff is new on the scene.

14:46 As you looked at that game, what were the basic problems you felt your team had?

14:49 I thought our puck play was, you know,

14:53 I talked about things we needed to do better.

14:55 I thought our puck play in game one wasn't good enough.

14:59 I thought you look at the first goal against uh we have the puck,

15:04 it looked a lot like uh the goal we had that we scored against Montreal.

15:10 We could have moved the puck uh to our defenseman,

15:13 got going up ice, we hung on to it, we fell down,

15:15 we just we had I think three or four

15:19 of the goals were just the result of bad puck play.

15:23 Um you know, you can't beat yourself.

15:25 we beat ourselves and we know we have to be better.

15:29 That's what we said after game one.

15:31 It's my it's my job to make sure we get our minds in the right place and um

15:39 I think we could have made a big difference on on four of the goals at least.

15:47 Tage Thompson's head is at after Yeah, you know, I think he got frustrated.

15:51 I think he he was really trying to press and I think sometimes

15:56 when you're pressing it it didn't get any better tonight for him for sure.

16:00 Um you know when we're all in this together it's not about not about one guy.

16:06 He knows he needs to be better.

16:08 We have a lot of guys that know that their game has to be better.

16:12 Uh we're at one and one right now.

16:17 We're pretty well in the same place we

16:19 were last series and I said before game one,

16:24 this is going to be a very difficult series.

16:26 They just beat a heck of a team, um,

16:30 we need to we need to handle the puck better

16:35 and put it in the right spot at the right time.

16:38 Meanwhile, at the other end of things,

16:39 let's hear from the Canadian head coach, Martan St.

16:41 Louis.

16:44 Martin, sometimes we see after you lose game one,

16:47 the series gets away from a team because it just becomes too much to handle.

16:52 Um, even when you compare it to last year versus Washington,

16:55 was there a greater sense of maybe maturity and this is

16:58 a sign of that with your team right now?

16:59 Yeah, I think so.

17:00 I think it's something we built through failure, you know,

17:05 we've learned a lot from, you know, last year.

17:09 Um, and I think we've grown, you know, and I feel like, you know,

17:14 even the game one, you know, we lose the game,

17:16 the game didn't really get away from us.

17:18 We were still in it.

17:20 Uh, and we did things better tonight.

17:24 Uh, that, you know, doesn't necessarily guarantee anything,

17:27 but it raises a percentage to go get success.

17:30 Um, so, um, I'm proud of their response.

17:33 I'm not surprised.

17:35 Um, and you know, we're going to start over game three.

17:39 But, uh, you know, every game that's its own story.

17:42 Every series that's its own story,

17:44 and you just got to can't let events, um, you know, dictate the story.

17:51 You got to keep you just got to keep writing.

17:54 Rewrite it if you don't like it.

17:58 Marty, to your right, just down here.

18:00 Um, you mentioned maturity this morning about why you were confident your team

18:04 could come out and get a or put themselves in a position to win.

18:06 You just mentioned that it doesn't have an age.

18:08 I'm wondering when you first got hired, you said that, you know,

18:11 hockey IQ can be taught and a lot of things can be taught.

18:15 When you say maturity has no age.

18:16 Do you think maturity can be taught and how

18:18 did this group learn maturity despite being a young team?

18:23 Yeah, I mean I think everything can be taught.

18:26 I think you can if you really want to learn something, you work at it.

18:33 You can be taught, you know, but to me it always starts with the individual.

18:38 I think we're trying to steer them in the right direction.

18:40 I think we're we're a group that stays in control.

18:45 Uh and that's maturity, you know.

18:47 So, sometimes you get challenged.

18:52 you get challenged emotionally, you know,

18:55 and how do you know the maturity part is important and um

19:01 you know we have different opportunities to grow from these challenges and we've

19:08 done that you know so I'm uh it's I think it's part

19:11 of our growth or process maturity is a big part of it.

19:15 Joshua uh Marty just down here but um your goalender mean some goalies they

19:20 they stay completely out of everything they

19:21 skate to the corner when stuff happens.

19:23 Jakob was not that guy.

19:25 He trips guys.

19:26 He's he's in the middle of things sometimes.

19:27 What what allows him to be successful and still

19:30 be sort of so involved in the game at times.

19:32 Yeah.

19:33 I don't know.

19:33 I don't know.

19:35 I don't see everything.

19:38 But for me like he's you know he's he's a competitor.

19:42 You know that's that's all he's doing.

19:44 He's competing out there and but I feel

19:47 like he's doing that and he's being himself.

19:52 I don't overthink it.

19:54 Let him be.

19:55 Take three more.

19:57 Let it be.

19:58 He's not overselling that.

19:59 And I think that's a good position for Marty San Louie to take,

20:02 especially with Dobish, right?

20:04 You know, I mean, you're you're two games

20:06 in round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

20:08 He's coming off a very very good game,

20:10 but you know, just pump the brakes a little bit.

20:13 Let's see how the series evolves.

20:15 If the Canadians don't win tonight,

20:17 he's probably asked about Cole Coughfield for the 100th

20:19 time so far in the playoffs because he doesn't score,

20:22 has a glorious chance in the third period.

20:24 But are you are you glass half full that they're winning these games without

20:28 his production or glass half empty that eventually

20:31 is going to catch up to Montreal?

20:32 No glass half full because they're winning games without his production

20:36 and at some point he's just too good of a goal scorer.

20:38 Guy scored 51 goals this season.

20:40 He is going to produce.

20:41 But coming into this game, it looked to me that Cole Coughfield was playing how

20:46 do I get my shot off instead of playing hockey.

20:49 And in this game, it looked like he was

20:50 playing to play the game a little bit more.

20:53 Not just trying to find pockets of ice or little [music] spaces

20:56 where he could get a shot off where he becomes easily marked.

20:59 In this game, he was following up the play.

21:01 he was being in positions of support and he started

21:04 to get [music] a few more looks at the net.

21:06 There's still a little bit of this bobbling the puck and you

21:09 know free puck situations where he's not finding ways to execute.

21:13 He gets two shots [music] on goal in this game and then is going

21:15 to hit the crossbar but you start to get the sense that you can feel it.

21:19 It's coming for him and late in the third period

21:21 the Montreal Canadians get a power play and you start to think

21:24 it might not be a consequential goal in the game

21:27 but it would be a hugely consequential goal for Cole Cfield.

21:30 doesn't get it ends up ringing the crossbar,

21:32 but at some point a guy like this is going to find a way to break through,

21:36 especially when he's getting those looks at the net.

21:39 As we analyze this series so far, and it's still early.

21:41 I think what Marty just said, every game is its own story.

21:44 It kind of sums it up where both teams have won in similar fashion.

21:48 Does the edge maybe go to to Montreal because they get

21:51 the split on the road and they're going home with home ice?

21:53 Well, that's always the feeling as the road team to start

21:56 the series is you're going in, you're looking for a split because,

21:58 you know, you're going home ice and now you've you you've regained it.

22:01 Ben, you know, Montreal hasn't had great success

22:04 in the playoffs at home so far this season.

22:06 They probably want to change that and it's a good momentum boost for him.

22:09 I talked about momentum not being a thing in the playoffs, but for Montreal,

22:13 you got to feel really good about how you played tonight considering

22:16 all the negative stuff people were saying with you after game one.

22:19 And now you know in that bell center, you talked about it, drags,

22:22 it was deafening in Buffalo, it's going to be electric in Montreal.

22:25 The the pressure on both of these teams

22:28 in this series is to execute with the puck.

22:31 That's what it's going to come down to.

22:32 And yes, sometimes there's going to be other things at play,

22:35 but this series feels less about the tactics or the gamesmanship.

22:41 It feels more about who's going to be able to make plays

22:44 with the puck on their stick at the right time and not cough it up.

22:47 And there's pressure involved in that.

22:48 And for Montreal, they're going back home.

22:51 The fans are going to be crazy.

22:52 It's going to be loud.

22:53 Is it going to be jumpy with the puck on your stick or can you be overwhelming

22:58 for the Buffalo Sabres and they feel like

22:59 they're in a days playing at the Bell Center?

23:01 That's what you look forward to for next game.

23:03 And I feel like they've got to bring

23:05 that in a level of execution on home ice because there

23:09 is a trend that's been established for the Montreal

23:11 Canadians to this point through nine games of the postseason.

23:15 You win one, you lose one.

23:17 You win one, you lose one.

23:19 And that works well in a seven game series,

23:21 but you know, they lost the first one, they get the split.

23:24 So, if they can break that trend and win on home ice on Sunday,

23:27 maybe they've got something to work with.

23:28 Just like in the first round, they earned the split on the road.

23:31 They head to the Bell Center for game three where they now have home ice as they

23:34 earned their first playoff win over the Sabres

23:37 since their Stanley Cup run back in 1993.