Montreal Canadians dominate New York Islanders in 6-2 win

The Montreal Canadians visited the New York Islanders on Tuesday evening in hopes of winning their second straight game and did so in a convincing win against the New York Islanders.

Recent events

Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin has given head coach Claude Julien a vote of confidence for the 2020-21 regular season. That shouldn't be as surprising as when he squeezed out the trade deadline Marc Bergevin said he wanted the Canadians to play in the playoffs next season and that he may believe that keeping Claude Julien in the mix could help them. We will just have to wait and see if that's the case

Three goals in the first period

The best chances for attack came from the New York Islanders in the first half of the period, even if the shots for the two teams were tied at four.

After some even play by both teams, Brendan Gallagher gave the Canadians the first lead of the game at 6:24 for their 22nd goal of the year. With more than a month in the season, Gallagher still has a chance to get his third straight season of 30 goals or more.

Shortly after, Charles Hudon almost set up Max Domi for once, but it didn't seem like Domi could control the puck enough. Missed opportunity, Jeff Petry was able to extend the Canadiens' lead to 2-0 with great vision from a tight angle that could creak thanks to the traffic created by the players of the Islanders, preventing Thomas Greiss to see where the puck was coming from. Philip D

A fight broke out between Islanders captain Anders Lee and Canadiens defenseman Christian Folin where Lee made contact with each punch, preventing Folin from countering.

Charles Hudon demonstrated precision in precision in a shot that gave the Canadians a 3-0 lead. This is undoubtedly the game where it seems that Charles is starting to integrate into the training of the Canadiens since his call from the Laval Rocket.

If he can continue to build on that and further translate his solid playing in the NHL into the NHL, Hudon could be a mainstay for the rest of the season and next fall.

Second period

The Islanders decided to replace Semyon Varlamov with Thomas Greiss in the net to start the second period.

The Canadians should play the rest of the game without their head forward, Tomas Tatar, who missed a few shifts in the first but did not return for the second due to an upper body injury .

Charles Hudon had a two-on-one chance to extend the Canadiens' lead, but chose to switch to Dale Weise instead, who was unable to lift the washer for correct shooting.

Max Domi was sent to the penalty bench for stumbling to put the Islanders on the power play, but Paul Byron (of Joel Armia) had his own plans, scoring his 3rd goal since returning from injury to give a 4-point lead -0 to Canadians. . Byron now has 6 points in 7 games since returning from his knee injury.

Third period

The 20-minute match started with a goal from Anders Lee recalled due to a separate kick. This should not, however, take away the push of the Islanders to try to reduce the lead.

Brock Nelson (of Josh Bailey) scored to narrow the Canadiens' lead to 4-1 towards which Carey Price should be visible.

A scary sight unfolded in third position when Artturi Lehkonen fell awkwardly, which caused his skate to come into contact with the face of Johnny Boychuk.

Without looking more closely, it's hard to see exactly where Lehkonen's skate came in contact with Boychuk's face at the moment. We all hope the best for Boychuk.

Jordan Weal scored on a two-on-one to strengthen the Canadiens' lead late in the game to give them a 5-1 lead, which allowed many spectators to withdraw in the closing minutes.

Due to two penalties, the Islanders had a 5v3 power play advantage that helped Ryan Pulock bring the final score to 5-2, but Joel Armia quickly responded with an empty net goal that brought the final score 6-2 for the Montreal Canadiens. .

Looking forward

The Montreal Canadiens will head to Tampa to play the Lightning Thursday at 7:00 p.m. where they will have the chance to extend their winning streak to three games.