And unlike yesterday, where the main goal was to get the players\u2019 heart rates going after a day off, Friday\u2019s objective was to hone in on details on both ends of the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201c[We worked on] a little bit of everything. Defensive and offensive touches. We did some teaching and got some good repetitions,\u201d said head coach Martin St-Louis following practice. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Heading into Saturday\u2019s contest against the Penguins, the Canadiens will want to make some adjustments to their game. They may have won their season-opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it wasn\u2019t a perfect game for St-Louis\u2019 side \u2013 and that\u2019s just fine, especially since it was the first game of the campaign following a shortened training camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIt was the first game of the year, and our fourth game [if you count the preseason]. […] It wasn\u2019t exactly a playoff pace, but there was a lot of hitting, the game was fast, everything was more intense. There was obviously going to be many mistakes. Overall, it wasn\u2019t too bad, but we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do, everyday\u201d said forward Phillip Danault. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of the work at practice featured line drills during which Danault centered a line with Alexandre Texier and Kirby Dach. Take a look at the other lines and D pairings at the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And unlike yesterday, where the main goal was to get the players\u2019 heart rates going after a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-918291","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\/918291","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=918291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}