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The Canadiens are not assured of making the playoffs: the Blue Jackets won tonight
Jonathan Di Gregorio
The Canadiens are not assured of making the playoffs: the Blue Jackets won tonight
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The Columbus Blue Jackets won their second game in as many matches against the Washington Capitals with a score of 4 to 1

This win for the Jackets, their fourth consecutive one, allows them to maintain their prospect of participating in the playoffs.

The Ohio club is only three points behind the habs, who currently occupy the last rank of the drafted teams. Both teams have two games left to play.

However, the habs only need one point to confirm their place in the spring series this year, because even if the teams have the same number of points, the tiebreaker favors the Montreal club.

Thus, even a defeat in overtime would confirm the habs’ place in the series.

The team will have the opportunity to get their point in the standings as early as Monday evening when they host the Chicago Blackhawks at the Centre Bell.

The habs could have confirmed their place with a win during the last weekend, but they only got one point in their two games against the Ontario teams.

Tomorrow’s game against the Blackhawks should also be Ivan Demidov’s first game with the habs.

The arrival of the young Russian sensation could bring a dose of energy to the team that seemed to lack energy in their last games.

By confirming their place tomorrow, the habs could also take advantage of their last game to rest some of their players who have been particularly overworked in recent weeks.

We can notably think of Samuel Montembeault, Mike Matheson, or Josh Anderson, not to mention the players who have been possibly injured for a while.

It would also be an opportunity to try a few experiments before the playoffs. Personally, I would like to see a few appearances by Olivier Kapanen at the center of Patrik Laine and Demidov.

Just in case…

But above all, we need to start by getting at least one point tomorrow evening.


In rafale

– Indeed!

– A volunteer?

– What a shot!

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