{"id":698142,"date":"2026-05-27T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:40:15","slug":"habs-look-to-regroup-against-hurricanes-in-pivotal-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698142\/","title":{"rendered":"Habs look to regroup against Hurricanes in pivotal Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The late Walter Gretzky, a.k.a. the most famous father in hockey history, once told his pass-happy son while driving to hockey practice: “You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don’t take.”<\/p>\n

Wayne Gretzky took his father’s advice and went on to score 1,016 goals in the NHL, including 122 in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to tonight’s pivotal Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final in Montreal and Canadiens’ coach Martin St. Louis might consider sharing the Gretzky gem with his young players, who trail the best-of-seven series with the top-seeded Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 and have been outshot 93-47.<\/p>\n

After winning Thursday’s opener 6-2 against the well-rested but rusty ‘Canes, Montreal has been smothered defensively in back-to-back 3-2 overtime losses, the first two-game losing streak of this post-season for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

And, for some strange reason, home ice hasn’t been much of an advantage as the Habs have lost five of seven games at the boisterous Bell Centre.<\/p>\n

Falling behind 3-1 in the series could spell disaster for the Canadiens’ goal of reaching the Stanley Cup final. The Hurricanes swept the Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers, and would undoubtedly have a few rest days before the championship series.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Fans send birthday wishes to Dobe\u0161 ahead of Game 4:\"\"<\/p>\n

Habs fans send birthday wishes to Jakub Dobe\u0161 as they take in Game 4 against Carolina<\/p>\n

Montreal Canadiens fans hope the 25th birthday of the fan-favourite goaltender is a good omen as the Habs look to tie up the NHL’s Eastern Conference final against the Hurricanes during a hunt for a 25th Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes have brought the hits, totalling 127 to Montreal\u2019s 65 through three games, despite also appearing to dominate puck possession.<\/p>\n

But despite two straight demoralizing overtime losses against Carolina\u2019s methodical, unrelenting forecheck, the Canadiens’ bench boss insists his group is far from finished.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re behind, but we\u2019re not dead,” St. Louis said Tuesday. “We continue. We have the tools to do this.”<\/p>\n

The Vegas Golden Knights, who swept the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference final last night, will rest up to eventually play the East’s winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-698142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698142","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=698142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}