In Montreal Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings were brought back down to earth in a 4-1 loss to the Canadiens.
Carey Price made 23 stops to quiet the resurgent Kings offense for the win.
- Carey Price – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
The Habs have won nine straight home games to open the season which matches a 63-year record and can break that mark with a win Saturday against the Detroit Red Wings.
“It hasn’t been perfect,” said captain Max Pacioretty, who had two assists. “We’re trending upwards after tonight. We have gotten bounces, we’ve relied on Carey [Price] too much at times, we’ve had to kill certain penalties that we wish we didn’t have to kill, but all things considered we have the right mindset in this room, and when we win a game, no matter what, you kind of look back on that game and see there’s not a turning point, but there’s a reason for the guys to stand up and feel good about themselves because we play for one another.”
Alex Galchenyuk, Paul Byron, Daniel Carr, and Phillip Danault scored for Montreal.
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Peter Budaj took the loss after two straight shutout wins; he made 19 saves.
“We scored seven goals last game, and as I said after the game, one was enough, we should have saved five,” coach Darry Sutter said.
Price had a shutout going until just past the mid point of the third period when Tyler Toffoli scored a power play goal.
“I think they got us from behind quite a bit, turned the pucks over. Some of our faster players weren’t on their game tonight,” Sutter said. “That’s a really good hockey club. It’s a four lines deep team. Pretty obvious why they’re now 9-0 at home. Combined score going into tonight’s game was 28-11, which meant every game was 4-1, that’s what tonight’s score was, too.
“So we’re probably saying the same thing that eight other teams said, unless they beat somebody twice already.”
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