After a rough couple of games, the Habs are making some roster changes. The team announced on Monday that they’ve placed centre Mitchell Stephens on waivers and assigned blueliner Justin Barron to Laval while recalling Arber Xhekaj.
Things were looking up for the Habs in the first half of the week following a pair of wins against strong playoff-bound teams. However, they followed that up with a pair of blowout losses to end on a low note.
For the first half of the game in Boston on Saturday, the Habs were able to somewhat keep pace. However, frequent defensive struggles came back to bite them as the Bruins skated away with a 9-4 win.
As the midpoint of the season has recently past, it’s time for a review of the Canadiens’ goaltenders and defencemen during the second quarter of this season.
Montreal’s struggles on the second half of back-to-back nights continued on Thursday in Ottawa as they were down early and could never recover, falling 6-2 to the Sens.
The Habs squandered a two-goal lead early in the third period on Wednesday night in New Jersey but a late goal from Cole Caufield allowed Montreal to pick up the 3-2 victory.
After coming up just short on Saturday versus Edmonton, the Habs looked to get back in the win column on Monday against Colorado. They struggled considerably at times but a good second half helped secure them the 4-3 win.
The Habs officially kicked off the second half of their season this past week. They ended the first half on a losing note and started out the second half the same way in a week that saw them struggle to score. Plus, some thoughts on Sean Monahan’s potential upcoming trade.
The Habs put forth their best effort of the week on Saturday against Edmonton but came up just short in the end as Evan Bouchard scored a power play goal early in overtime to give the Oilers a 2-1 victory for a franchise-record tenth straight win.
December had some ups and downs for the Habs who had some of their best and worst outings of the season. Meanwhile, a handful of players had strong months statistically, earning them a spot in our monthly three stars as voted by our readers.