** Official 2020-2021 Montréal Canadiens Thread **

Match 3, Vegas domine largement, perd en surtemps. Match 4 c'est l'inverse. C'est malheureux et c'est une douche d'eau froide pour la province au complet. Je crois que tout le monde avait commencé à penser au 3-1 et ticket en finale quelques minutes trop tôt. Espérons qu'ils peuvent rebondir mardi.
 
Dans les commentaires sur YouTube a propos de la game 3: "This is the worst officiated game I've ever seen!"

Game 4: "Hold my beer..."

Si on résume, le CH a perdu des secondes en PP parce qu'ils etaient en PP a la fin de la 2e periode parce que Chris Lee est pas capable de caller une game des series de la LNH. En plus de rien caller de la game mais après caller un obstruction de moumoune a Vegas et le 'hooking' digne d'un handicapé avec une canne sur Suzuki. Wow - juste wow.

Ces deux arbitres la doivent pus jamais arbitrer une game dans la LNH.

Déjà que Chris Lee est tellement anti-Canadien que le CH avait un record pire avec lui comme arbitre que quand c'etait Tim Peel qui arbitrait. Mais l'avoir 2 games en ligne - ouf.

Quand est-ce que la ligue va obliger les arbitres aussi a répondre aux questions des journaleux après les games?
 
Je serais curieux de connaitre l'analyse de média autre que Montréalais/Canadiens sur l'arbitrage.

Pendant l'intermission à Sportsnet, Craig Simpson et Kevin Bieksa ont dit que les arbitres avaient perdu le contrôle du match et que c'était absolument ridicule. Sportsnet est très pro-Toronto au point où ils arrêtaient de décrire le match pour annoncer que Jason Spezza avait signé un nouveau contrat avec les Leafs.
 
Dans les commentaires sur YouTube a propos de la game 3: "This is the worst officiated game I've ever seen!"

Game 4: "Hold my beer..."

Si on résume, le CH a perdu des secondes en PP parce qu'ils etaient en PP a la fin de la 2e periode parce que Chris Lee est pas capable de caller une game des series de la LNH. En plus de rien caller de la game mais après caller un obstruction de moumoune a Vegas et le 'hooking' digne d'un handicapé avec une canne sur Suzuki. Wow - juste wow.

Ces deux arbitres la doivent pus jamais arbitrer une game dans la LNH.

Déjà que Chris Lee est tellement anti-Canadien que le CH avait un record pire avec lui comme arbitre que quand c'etait Tim Peel qui arbitrait. Mais l'avoir 2 games en ligne - ouf.

Quand est-ce que la ligue va obliger les arbitres aussi a répondre aux questions des journaleux après les games?

N’oublie pas le goal scorer avec 7 joueur de TB et le cross-check caller contre Brayden Point alors qu’il s’est fait cross checker et rentrer dedans Varly… Les arbitres sont à chier tout court peu importe la série.
 
Let’s get this out the way before we start the plus/minus portion of this piece: The controversy surrounding who was tending the Vegas Golden Knights’ crease for Game 4 against the Montreal Canadiens was absolutely needless.

The spotlight as far as Vegas is concerned should be pointed firmly at the Golden Knights’ forward group — except Nicolas Roy.

Max Pacioretty and Mark Stone entered Sunday night’s game with one assist between them. When you add Jonathan Marchessault’s totals, that’s three assists among them. Only two forwards, Roy and Mattias Janmark, have scored goals for the Golden Knights, including Roy’s overtime winner Sunday night, which has completely changed the outlook of this series.

And on a night when the Canadiens were the better team offensively, it was Montreal that lost the game 2-1 in overtime. The Canadiens led 18-0 in high-danger chances through regulation, per Natural Stat Trick.

It was a game they should have won, but didn’t. But when you consider the Canadiens won Game 3 playing the opposite role, all you can do is shrug your shoulders at the hockey gods swinging the pendulum.

Entering Sunday night, the pressure was on the favoured Golden Knights — and rightfully so. But the Canadiens also entered Game 4 with something to prove. They weren’t as dangerous offensively in Game 3 until overtime, yet still won. An 11-shot first period Sunday was a step in the right direction for the Canadiens (all shots coming from forwards), especially with the Pressure Line getting chances. Their efforts in the second didn’t result in an avalanche of goals, but they did get one from Paul Byron. In the third, Cole Caufield had a chance to ice the game on a breakaway. And it looked like he would, but he didn’t. Had he scored, the Canadiens might have left Bell Centre with a 3-1 series lead.

Instead, the Golden Knights have a chance to build on the momentum after stealing a game on the road they didn’t completely deserve. It didn’t hurt that Robin Lehner held the fort with a 27-save performance.

Hockey’s funny that way.

With that, it’s on to breaking down the good and the bad. This was one of those rare games in which it was hard to fault many Canadiens players for their play. Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jon Merrill, for example, fall somewhere between pluses and minuses.

Oh, and don’t worry. We’ll get to the officiating.
The pluses

The Pressure Line (Joel Armia-Eric Staal-Corey Perry): Another solid night. Perry flew around the offensive zone, and it’s a tough ask to handle him if you’re a defenceman. The Golden Knights had to trip him, or make some kind of contact on him, to slow him down. Remarkably, he didn’t draw any penalties in the first period. But despite being marked, he proved to be quite the handful. Perry nearly fed Staal with a goal-of-the-playoffs candidate as well in the first period.

The Shea Weber-Ben Chiarot pairing: One big reason the line of Pacioretty, Stone and Alex Tuch (or whichever centre they insert between the two) hasn’t been effective in this series is that they haven’t been given space to manoeuvre. There was a stretch in the second period when Pacioretty and Stone were deep in the offensive zone with Tomas Nosek. Pacioretty fed Stone with a pass, but since the latter’s back was turned to the net, he wasn’t in a prime position to score, or even receive the puck. Stone and Pacioretty couldn’t escape the clutches of Weber or Chiarot whenever they tried to handle the puck, whether along the boards or behind the net. Their shift ended with Pacioretty losing the puck as Weber closed in on him. Brendan Gallagher then scooped up the puck and went up ice.

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