It was clearly a game to forget for the Montreal team. She preached from indiscipline and offered eight numerical superiority to the wilderness. One more than when Connor Bedard visited.
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Because the Minnesota team is better off than the Hawks, it has benefited three times.
“You can’t take that many penalties. That’s unacceptable,” said the Canadian head coach.
“We are in so much trouble that I could make anyone warm up the bench,” he added, grinning, to a colleague who wanted his opinion on one of the offenses imposed on Juraj Slafkovsky.
In the locker room, Brendan Gallagher couldn’t believe so many of his teammates had visited the dungeon.
“It’s the best definition of the expression, ‘We shot ourselves in the foot.'” You can’t win a game in this league with a play like that, he said. It wasn’t due to a lack of preparation or lack of energy. We knew what we had to do. We didn’t play smart enough to win. We didn’t give ourselves a chance. »
Two gifts to the wild
As if that wasn’t enough, Dean Evason’s team scored two goals during the same numerical penalty that left Ryan Hartman in the penalty box.
“This can’t happen. It’s our fault, it’s our unit’s responsibility. It completely killed the momentum of the game,” said Sean Monahan, who was on the ice for the first of those two goals.
There will certainly be a lot to do on the Canadian’s special teams until the next game, which is scheduled for Saturday with the visit of the Washington Capitals.