The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1, with Game 3 at Bell Centre in Montreal on Monday (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, HBO MAX).<\/p>\n
It was a far cry from Thursday, when the Canadiens\u2019 top line accounted for three goals (two by Slafkovsky and one from Caufield) and five assists (three for Suzuki, one each for Caufield and Slafkovsky). The Hurricanes had matched their top line of left wing Andrei Svechnikov<\/a>, center Sebastian Aho<\/a> and right wing Seth Jarvis<\/a>\u00a0against those three.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I mean, \u2018Jordo,\u2019 that\u2019s who he should be playing against, really. The best players, that\u2019s usually how we do it,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cJust obviously felt like from the other night we needed to change something up a little bit, tried to do that and you know what you\u2019re getting out of Jordo. No matter who he\u2019s playing against, he\u2019s hard to play against. That was a good matchup for us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n It certainly was, and it was one the Hurricanes definitely needed to gain the split at home.<\/p>\n Ehlers was a bigger factor on the offensive side, scoring twice, including the winner in overtime on Saturday. But he certainly takes pride in keeping Montreal\u2019s best at bay.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery single time you go out there, you want to play the same way no matter what team, what line you\u2019re playing against,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way that we play as a team, you want to play the right way. Obviously, you\u2019ve got to know who you\u2019re out there against. That Suzuki line is unbelievable. So, for us, it was about keeping it simple, making sure we have everyone back, making sure we got pucks deep, playing in their end, making it hard for them.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it was another line we were playing against, we would\u2019ve done the exact same. I don\u2019t think that changes for us and tonight, especially, we did a pretty good job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1, with Game 3 at Bell Centre in Montreal on Monday (8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-691024","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\/691024","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=691024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}