Despite the ailment plague, the Montreal Canadiens focused on playing their upcoming season.
Kaiden Guhle has joined Kirby Dach on the injured list.
Martin St. Louis, head coach of the Montreal Canadiens, is not paying attention to the injuries to his starting lineup despite the hardship he went through the previous season.
According to mangameslost.com, with 751, the Canadiens topped the league in man-games lost. This year, they’re heading to
a challenging start, with top defenseman Kaiden Guhle out for the season with an upper-body injury and second-line center Kirby Dach already out with damage to his right knee’s ACL and MCL.
St. Louis asserts that he is confident in the depth of his team to compensate for the absences.
“On Thursday at the Canadiens practice facility, we move forward, we don’t stop what we’re doing because we lost a player,” stated St. Louis.
The season ends for Canadiens forward Kirby Dach due to an ACL and MCL damage in his right knee.
“I know it’s hard to continue when you lose players as much as we did last year, but the rest of the league doesn’t care if we’re injured, the league moves forward.”
“I think we have more depth, more experience than last year, so I’m not worried.”
Canadiens, plagued by injuries, are hoping for a better future after a challenging season.
Given Dach’s injury, the Canadiens’ declaration on Thursday that Guhle was day-to-day was somewhat encouraging; nonetheless, he may still miss multiple games.
With Guhle playing defense in all three games this season, Jonathan Kovacevic stated, “Hopefully he’ll be back in a couple weeks.”
It’s awful. I find it awful. I’m hoping for a quick recovery for him because getting to play with him and be close to him as a buddy is just something you never want to witness,” Kovacevic remarked. “Unfortunately, it’s part of the game with it just being a fast, physical game, things happen, so just unlucky.”
Guhle departed Tuesday’s 5-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild late in the second period and did not come back. He did not practise on Thursday. It was unclear when or how the injury happened.
After three games this season, the Edmonton native, 21, is plus-four with one assist.
Guhle averaged 20 minutes and 31 seconds of ice time per game as a rookie last season, which put him in fourth place on the club. However, he also lost time because of a high ankle sprain and a knee ailment. In 44 games, the 2020 first-round draft selection finished with four goals and fourteen assists.
Goalie Samuel Montembeault stated, “We had a lot of trouble with injuries in the last couple of years.” “We were in
We’ve already had two big injuries after three games, which is not what I had anticipated would happen this year.
“As I mentioned last year, I hope a fan isn’t still pulling strings for us. It is a contact sport, though unlucky.
The Canadiens are also without defenseman Chris Wideman (back) and center Christian Dvorak (knee). Carey Price, the goalie, is still on the long-term injured reserve.
Guhle’s absence means that Justin Barron, a seventh defenseman, will probably enter the game.
Absence of self-control
The Canadiens have dominated the league through three games in terms of penalties taken (29), minutes spent on penalties (85), minutes spent on penalties per game (28:20), and penalty differential per 60 minutes (minus -2.59).
In Tuesday night’s defeat, when the Canadiens gave up three power-play goals while down a man, it was very evident that Montreal was unable to build any momentum. This season, in five-on-five action, the Canadiens have surrendered just one goal.
St. Louis remarked of the fines, “That’s gotta change.” Our team is addressing it.
“We’ve gotta tighten up because it doesn’t matter what you do at five-on-five if you’re getting yourself in trouble like that all the time.”
How do groups reduce the number of penalties they take?
Forward Alex Newhook stated, “It all boils down to playing the proper defense.” “If you defend the right way, put your body in the right spot defensively, a lot of the time you’re not in a position to take a bad penalty.”
Need Suzuki to do more
Nick Suzuki, the captain of the Canadiens, has only contributed one assist in his first three games.
With 26 goals and 40 assists in 82 games last season, Suzuki led the club in scoring. With Dach out of the lineup, Suzuki is one of the few skilled offensive creators on the team.
St. Louis was honest about the first-line center’s season thus far.
“I would say, and Nick would say this too, he has to be better for sure,” replied St. Louis. “But he’s a guy with league experience, so I’m not worried that he’ll find his form; it’s a long season.”
Nick must undoubtedly give us more, though, given how much he plays and his role. I’m not concerned because Suzuki will be present.At times, it takes a small amount of self-assurance. He is still proficient at playing hockey here.”
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