This is, of course, not the time to panic. We are four games into an 84-game season. It was a shortened exhibition schedule, so you could say the first couple of games were kind of like pre-season games.
Kaiden Guhle is out with an injury. Sniper Ivan Demidov has also been out of the lineup.
But still, let’s reference the title of The Clash’s worst album — Cut the Crap. Stop making excuses. Stop doing Cirque du Soleil-like gymnastics to try to suggest the Canadiens are looking just fine.