About Last Night: Habs' season hits new low in 6-0 loss to Pens - Montreal Gazette

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About Last Night: Habs' season hits new low in 6-0 loss to Pens - Montreal Gazette

Cole Caufield returned from a stint in Laval and Mattias Norlinder played 17:39 in his NHL debut.

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Erik Leijon • Special to Montreal Gazette

Publishing date:

Nov 19, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 2 minute read • 19 Comments

Pittsburgh Penguins' Teddy Bluger cuts between Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mattias Norlinder and goalie Cayden Primeau during second period in Montreal Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Canadiens were thoroughly dismantled by the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 6-0 shutout loss at the Bell Centre on Thursday. The Pens outshot the Canadiens 43-24 in the uneven contest, and chased starter Cayden Primeau after two periods. Teddy Blueger led the way offensively with two goals and an assist.

Primeau was collateral damage in a dispiriting performance by the floundering Canadiens. With the loss, the Habs fell to 4-13-2 on the season. Coach Dominique Ducharme hoped an infusion of youth, in the form of Cole Caufield and Mattias Norlinder, would bring renewed energy to the lineup. A day prior, the team lost Adam Brooks on waivers to the Vegas Golden Knights, and Alex Belzile was sent down to Laval to make room for Caufield.

Sidney Crosby opened scoring at 3:36 in the first. Off a neutral zone turnover, the Pens captain completed a slick passing play with linemates Bryan Rust and Jake Guentzel to put his team on the board.

Moments after a penalty to Joel Armia expired, John Marino fired a point shot so hard off the back boards, the puck ricocheted into the slot and right on Danton Heinen’s stick, who beat a surprised Primeau for a 2-0 lead.

With under a minute left in the first, the Penguins found themselves on a slowly developing 4-on-2 in the Montreal zone. Guentzel shot the puck while leaning on his back foot, but defenceman Kristopher Letang served as the unlikely screen and the puck found itself in the back of the net. The period ended 3-0.

Since the calendar has flipped to November, Jake Guentzel has points in seven of Pittsburgh’s eight games (5G-4A) and leads the Penguins in scoring this month. pic.twitter.com/2f2H3Tz0fl
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) November 19, 2021

The Penguins added two in the second period. Ben Chiarot and Jeff Petry both lost their positioning in the defensive zone, giving up a 2-on-0 to Blueger and Zach Aston-Reese. Blueger scored his first of two to make it 4-0. Chiarot was -4 and Petry was -3 on the night.

Less than three minutes later, the Penguins continued to pile on when Brock McGinn alone in front redirected a Michael Matheson point shot for the fifth Penguin goal of the night.

Primeau was replaced by Samuel Montembeault to start the third. It was an uneventful period, but with 10 seconds remaining, Blueger slipped by the Montreal defence with both teams halfway to the benches and scored on the ensuing breakaway to add insult to injury.

The Habs season hit a new low Thursday night. I’ll yield my time and allow the Liveblog commenters to say what’s on their minds:

“I’m booing at my tv screen” -Ryan Katz

“Well, I don’t know how much more the Montreal faithful can stomach. But logic tells me it’s time for a full blown rebuild. Dismiss Bergevin, the entire coaching staff and Timmins. Bring in a new GM, not an intern. Then start getting rid of all the dead wood Bergevin accumulated over the past 9 years. There’s not a lot of keepers here, but you do have to keep a few younger and veteran players. In reality, this should have happened 5 years ago, but Bergevin was always just lucky enough with his mediocre trades. To always make like next year will be the year. I’ll give Bergevin this, he’s a genius at pulling the wool over Molson’s and lot of Montreal fans eyes. This is sickening to watch, a team with the richest history, sink so low. Bravo Molson, bravo.” -Mark Real Smith

“Change GM, begin the liquidation as a lame duck can’t be allowed to do this. Specifically trade Price and Petry at deadline for anything, there’s 16 million. If they win a few here and there then keep coach. But getting blown out, losing 8 in a row, have zero effort or organization on ice can’t last and coach will be gone too.” -Kyle Davidson

“Molson needs to fire Bergevin tonight. Your office will be cleaned out for you. 10 years and this is the result. Ya I know we made it to the finals last year. Rick Green said it earlier They aren’t playing in the Canadian division this year.” -Derek Stevens

“If this season keeps up, the wife will probably make me keep the bag she insists I have to wear watching games on at bedtime.” -Chris James

“Just coming back from a horticultural society meeting, was hoping for some good news when i logged on… two reasons to look forward to an early spring: flowers blooming and we will all be out of our misery as the season ends for the Habs!” -Haari Meech

“4-13-2 equates to a 43 point season. “To you from failing hands we throw the torch” Bergevin and Molson have dropped and buried that torch.” -Mike Sampson

“If I go to hell when I die, I’ll have to watch Habs 2021- 2022 season reruns.” -Chris James

“A 2 on nothing break resulting from extremely blown coverage results in a 4-0 lead. I think Primeau is looking forward to returning to the AHL where Laval doesn’t hang the goalie completely out to dry.” -Michael Way

“A comment made on one of the Toronto sports radio shows today was how soft the Habs are this year and other teams are exposing that weakness. Couldn’t argue with them.” -Bob Taylor

“At this point I’m just thankful that my dad has passed away. This team would have killed him.” -Marc Taillefer

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