Cole Caufield<\/a> used to describe the Canadiens’ performance?\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cTo me, it\u2019s a mindset, it\u2019s not necessarily structure,\u201d the coach said. \u201cWhen you turn pucks over, there\u2019s no structure that will defend turnovers. So, to me, that\u2019s that. Obviously, closing the game five-on-six, we couldn\u2019t do it again tonight. I\u2019m looking for guys that can do it. And we have a structure, and we got out of the structure today. We gave a free shot to Trouba, and chaos can happen off that. We\u2019re going to keep talking about it, and I\u2019m looking for guys that can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Montembeault, St. Louis said, \u201cI think everybody has a part in the goals. It\u2019s not all the goalie. Obviously, his part is magnified, but there\u2019s another five guys in front of him that can do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadiens will try to do that for Jakub Dobes on Saturday against the Kings.<\/p>\n
They enter the road-trip closing game with a record of 33-18-10, 76 points, in the first wild-card position in the Eastern Conference, one point out of third in the Atlantic Division, with two games in-hand and four points up on the playoff bubble-hugging Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n
Canadiens react to Hughes standing pat at the trade deadline<\/p>\n
\u201cI told you guys going in, we really feel confident in our group. If we were to add a player, we obviously would\u2019ve welcomed him in, and it would\u2019ve had an impact. But we feel confident with what we have in here. We\u2019re capable of beating anyone if we do what we\u2019re capable of doing. Our game isn\u2019t in the best place. Fortunately enough, we\u2019ve done a pretty good job of putting ourselves in a good position, but that can change fast. We have a ton of confidence in this group up or down in a game, but for now, we just need to get to correcting some details and getting back to what we\u2019ve done well for most of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like Kent and (Canadiens president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton) are two of the best in the league, and we\u2019ve got all the faith in them, and they\u2019ve kind of added throughout the year. Not necessarily today, but they\u2019ve done a good job of filling holes throughout the year, and we believe in our group, and it\u2019s on us now to come together and have a strong final push here and get into the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t all that surprised. You never really know, but I kind of assumed we were not going to make any moves. Luckily, we (kept the group intact), and we\u2019re happy about that. But now we\u2019ve got to pay it forward back to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s always a stressful day. You have no idea what\u2019s going on, and you have no idea if it\u2019s the last time you see a teammate or something like that, so you know it\u2019s pretty stressful. I think they believe in our group and what we can do, and that\u2019s up to us to prove them right. It\u2019s just like last year; we didn\u2019t do much, and we found a way. But the lack of details right now is frustrating, and it\u2019s been a couple games in a row, and we\u2019ve got to clean it up. We\u2019ve got a good opportunity to do that tomorrow. We love the group that we have in here, it\u2019s just finding ways to finish it because we put ourselves in a really good spots and this is a result we\u2019ve had to swallow a couple times now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Three days after a 7-5 loss to the San Jose Sharks, which came after splitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-521057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}