Canadiens Winning Streak Ended By the Canes | RECAP: CAR @ MTL

Forwards

22 Cole Caufield - 14 Nick Suzuki - 20 Juraj Slafkovsky
11 Brendan Gallagher - 15 Alex Newhook - 40 Joel Armia
17 Josh Anderson - 71 Jake Evans - 56 Jesse Ylonen
55 Michael Pezzetta - 36 Colin White - 49 Rafael Harvey-Pinard

Defensemen
8 Mike Matheson - 54 Jordan Harris
47 Jayden Struble - Johnathan Kovacevic
72 Arber Xhekaj - 58 David Savard

Goaltenders

Starter: 35 Sam Montembeault
Alternate: 30 Cayden Primeau 

Out of the lineup

Scratches: Tanner Pearson 
Suspended: Kaiden Guhle 
Injuries: Carey Price (knee), Chris Wideman (back), Kirby Dach (knee), Christian Dvorak (upper body), Joshua Roy (hand)

The Canadiens three-game winning streak came to an end as they were shutout by the Carolina Hurricanes. It was a very workmanlike performance for the Canes who are 11-0-1 in their last 12 games against Montreal. Carolina has not lost in regulation time to the Canadiens since the Sebastian Aho offer sheet.

Montreal managed to keep the visitors off the scoresheet at even strength but the Hurricanes opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal, added a power play goal and capped off the night with an empty-netter. 

Juraj Slafkovsky was unable to earn any points on his 20th birthday putting an end to his nine-game point streak. Slafkovsky led the Habs with six shots on goal but finished the game with a minus-2 rating.

Kaiden Guhle was out of the lineup serving his one-game suspension. That opened a spot on defense for Johnathan Kovacevic.

Canadiens (28-33-12)
Shots: 26
Face-off %: 45.0
Power play: 0/3
Penalty minutes: 4
Hits: 21
Blocks: 21

Hurricanes (47-21-7)
Shots: 30
Face-off %: 55.0
Power play: 1/2
Penalty minutes: 6
Hits: 5
Blocks: 11

Canadiens Scorers
1st period: --
2nd period: --
3rd period: --
OT: --
SO: --

Hurricanes Scorers
1st period: --
2nd period: Staal (9)-SHG
3rd period: Aho (33)-PPG, Jarvis (29)-ENG
OT: --
SO: --

Goaltenders
MTL: Montembeault (L) 14-14-7
CAR: Kochetkov (W) 20-13-4

Jayden Struble - Struble led Canadiens defensemen with four hits while playing 18:34.

Jake Evans - Evans was the top faceoff man for the Canadiens in this game, winning 57 per cent of his draws.

Martin St. Louis

"We didn't take advantage of our chances in the second period. But in terms of our collective game, against this team, it's the best we've done since I've been here."

Juraj Slafkovsky

“We played a good match, we just didn’t score. I think we're going in the right direction, but games like that will happen. You can't win by not scoring. We missed so many chances."

The Canadiens will continue their five-game homestand on Tuesday night against the Florida Panthers.

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