Rocket Weekly: Another Middling Week
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Laval’s road trip featured a trio of close games although the Rocket were only able to come away with a victory in one of them.
Laval’s road trip featured a trio of close games although the Rocket were only able to come away with a victory in one of them.
The Habs started off their week with a disappointing outing against San Jose but rebounded nicely to beat Toronto and split the two home games before embarking on their Western road trip.
It was a decent week at home for Laval as they managed to pick up their first two home victories of the season to pull themselves out of the basement in the North Division.
Last week was a bit of an up and down one for the Habs who started and ended with a disappointing result with a pair of dominant victories in between. But it wasn’t all bad as Victor Mete finally got his first NHL goal.
The Habs went into Minnesota on Saturday with the hopes of sweeping their season series against the Wild. Unfortunately for Montreal, some early-season demons came back to bite them as they fell 4-3.
It took until their fourth game but Laval is finally in the win column as they split their first two road games of the 2019-20 season.
The week started off on a sour note with a pair of losses against division rivals before the Habs put together their best effort of the early season in a convincing victory over the defending Stanley Cup Champions.
It appears that Michael McCarron has recovered from his groin injury that he sustained early in training camp as on Wednesday, the Habs announced that they have placed him on waivers. He cleared on Thursday and was sent to Laval of the AHL.
Laval’s first week of the season resembled a lot of their play from last year as they came up short on the scoreboard as they dropped both of their games to Cleveland, the affiliate for Columbus.
Montreal’s 2019-20 season kicked off with a pair of very fast-paced games on the road. They trailed in both, led in both, and wound up going to a shootout in both as well as they ultimately split the two to pick up three of a possible four points.