MONTREAL \u2013 Ahead of Friday\u2019s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, head coach Martin St-Louis answered a question about how individual players can deal with being targets in the playoffs, as he was during his playing career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTry to see things clearly through the chaos. You have your own expectations, and you hear everybody else’s expectations. All that is noise and chaotic. Can you just stay focused and clear with the reads that you have to make while all this is around you? You can\u2019t control that. You can control this,\u201d he said while gesturing towards himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although St-Louis was largely talking about individual players, this mentality also applies to the collective as well. As the Canadiens gear up for a potentially decisive Game 6 against the Lightning, they will need to stay focused on the task at hand: closing out the series on home ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect them to be fired up,\u201d said Alexandre Carrier during his pregame media op. \u201cWhen your back is against the wall, you\u2019re desperate and you want to give it your all. So, that\u2019s what I expect from them, but I also expect the same thing from our team. We want to close out the series in front of our fans, so I expect an excellent hockey game tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In preparation for tonight\u2019s anticipated contest, the Canadiens held an optional skate at the Bell Centre, with 15 players opting into the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Ahead of Friday\u2019s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, head coach Martin St-Louis answered a question…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-643356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}