Montreal looks for their 8th win under Martin St. Louis.
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What is this team? The last time I was here for the liveblog, Marc Bergevin had just been handed his walking papers, and the team on the ice was playing without a pulse. Martin St. Louis has been the elixir of the gods for a team that desperately needed some positivity. Now 7-5-0 under the new coach, somehow it feels a whole lot better than that.
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A win tonight against the similarly bottom-dwelling Seattle Kraken would see the Canadiens with as many wins under St. Louis in only 13 games, as the 45 previous games under Dominique Ducharme. I don’t believe Ducharme was even the majority reason why this season went the way it did in the first half, but I hope he’s enjoying life on a beach right now instead of watching this.
Puck drop is at 7 pm. (CBC, SN East, SN Pacific, TVA Sports, ROOT-NW, TSN Radio 690, 98.5 FM)
For the first time since December, the Canadiens will be playing in front of a packed house in the Bell Center tonight, and to add to the good news to buoy the team after a tough late night game against the surging Canucks; they’re finally getting Joel Edmundson back.
Edmundson was a key cog in what made the Canadiens’ successful last season. After a bumpy start adjusting to his new team, he settled into a perfectly symbiotic relationship with Jeff Petry, as the pair posted among the best underlying numbers in the league last season, and dominated territorially in the playoffs.
Edmundson is the first on a long list of Canadian veterans that appear to be close to returning from injury as the trade deadline approaches, but he might be the most impactful, especially considering Ben Chiarot is guaranteed to get dealt with.