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| Subject: LEHTONEN AND THRASHERS SHUT OUT CANADIENS Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:07 am | |
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ATLANTA - A year after entering the playoffs as the top seed in the Eastern Conference, the Montreal Canadiens are having difficulty beating even the conference's worst teams on the road.
Kari Lehtonen made 25 saves and the Atlanta Thrashers had one of their strongest defensive efforts of the season, beating Montreal 2-0 on Friday night to extend the Canadiens' road struggles.
Bryan Little scored with 2:32 left in the opening period, and Rich Peverley added an empty-net goal with 35 seconds left. Ilya Kovalchuk had assists on each of the goals.
Lehtonen protected his second shutout of the season with two saves against Tomas Plekanec with 2:32 remaining.
"He was awesome," Thrashers rookie Zach Begosian said. "If he hadn't been on, it could have been a different story."
The Canadiens, attempting to protect their position in a tight Eastern Conference playoff race, suffered their second straight road loss to fall to 2-11-1 in their last 14 away from Montreal.
The poor road stretch began Jan. 20 with a 4-2 loss in Atlanta.
The Thrashers began the day last in the league with their 11-18-2 home record and also last with 112 goals allowed in home games, but they helped Lehtonen by allowing only 12 shots on goal in the first two periods.
"We're weren't shooting as much as we should have," Montreal's Alex Tanguay said. "We didn't take control of the puck."
With Montreal goalie Jaroslav Halak out with the flu, Carey Price made 26 stops but fell to 0-6-1 in his last seven games.
"With a good performance like this from Carey, unfortunately we can't score goals," Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau said. "It's frustrating for him and us, but I think our effort tonight was better than at Buffalo."
Montreal's three-game trip began with a 5-1 loss at Buffalo on Tuesday night. Carbonneau said he was concerned his players didn't stand up for each other in the loss, and he challenged them with a gruelling practice on Thursday.
Carbonneau said he was encouraged that his team "worked for 60 minutes and gained confidence" against Atlanta.
"We keep working like this, we'll be OK," he said.
There was no shortage of players defending teammates in a physical game.
The first pair of roughing calls, on Montreal's Tom Kostopoulos and Atlanta's Boris Valabik, came only 3:30 into the game. More roughing calls came less than three minutes later, followed by the first five-minute penalties for fighting with 6:05 left in the period.
The teams combined for 27 penalties for 98 minutes.
"I don't think we were going to back out at any time," Thrashers coach John Anderson said. "We don't plan on having that many penalties. We've got some pretty tough guys on our team anyway. We're not a soft team."
Carbonneau may have been looking for his team to play tough, but Plekanec said the penalties were no sign of progress.
"Physical play didn't help us at all," Plekanec said. "We started getting momentum and we would take a penalty."
Montreal suffered only its second shutout loss of the season.
"You know we're pretty much out of the playoffs and they are a team that really needs the points," Anderson said. "To go toe to toe with one of the best teams in the league and to come out on top is pretty big for us.
"It gives us confidence and makes us feel good about our organization."
Notes: Atlanta F Eric Perrin did not return after suffering an undisclosed injury in the second period. ... Montreal's only other shutout loss was a 3-0 defeat at Washington on Nov. 28. ... The Thrashers had 54 penalty minutes in the first two periods, including 10-minute misconducts by Jim Slater, Eric Boulton and Garnet Exelby. ... Slater, Boulton and Montreal's Maxim Lapierre drew 10-minute misconducts for their roles in two fights that stopped play with 7:42 remaining in the second period | |
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| Subject: Re: LEHTONEN AND THRASHERS SHUT OUT CANADIENS Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:16 am | |
| It seems like to me that the habs players think to hard when price is in the net. I know Halak has the flu, but come on, right now I would say price needs to be sent down for some reconditioning and halak has to take over as the starting goaltender. I can definitely see Montreal missing the playoffs if they keep this guy behind the pipes. I know that they have only scored once in two games but IMO, they try to do to much when price is in the net because of his bad goaltending. And then they don't play their type of game. But when Halak is in the net, they have more confidence in playing there game and don't have to worry about his abilities behind the pipes. | |
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| Subject: Re: LEHTONEN AND THRASHERS SHUT OUT CANADIENS Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:12 am | |
| home games are ahead ,i am sure we will get in and at the end of the day its carey price not halak .i know this guy is strugling but i believe this guy will turn it around and we will get back to winning.I know its hard to see but i believe this team is facing all of this for a reason ,we are a good team and i believe we are going to get people talking about us again once april comes. | |
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