Canadien: the next few weeks will be at home, where the club is on a tear – Canada Boosts

In actuality, there are two methods of taking a look at it. You would say that the Habs aren’t enjoying persistently sufficient, and that it’s typically exhausting to look at the video games…

Or you possibly can say that the membership is three factors behind the Maple Leafs, the third-best staff within the division and Eleventh-best staff in the complete NHL, in accordance with the general standings.

Or you possibly can say that the Habs are 10th from bottom on Tankathon, which is best than final 12 months’s fifth-place end. If my math instructor had been Eric Girard, he may inform me that mathematically, the Habs are twice pretty much as good as final 12 months.

Anyway, the purpose is that this. All that to say that, in the intervening time, the Habs aren’t low within the standings, however that may be defined by the truth that the Sabres, Lightning and Crimson Wings absolutely aspired to extra.

To assist them get again on observe, the Canadiens will likely be relying on a number of house video games over the following few weeks. It’s at all times good, on paper, to win video games. On paper…

Tonight’s sport received’t be simple. The blokes (apart from Cayden Primeau, who left Columbus yesterday morning) arrived on the town final evening, they usually’re prone to be wanting legs towards the massive, highly effective Panthers.

What’s subsequent? Six of the primary seven video games of December will likely be at house. The Crimson Wings (December 2, as in 1995), Kraken (4), Nordiques Kings (7), Predators (10), Penguins (13) and Islanders (16) will all be on the Bell Centre shortly.

The CH will likely be in Buffalo on Saturday, December 9.

What it’s essential know, nevertheless, is that even when the opponents aren’t probably the most formidable on paper, the CH continues to be struggling at house this season.

The membership has a 5-6 report on the Bell Centre this 12 months… and regardless that some large names have come to city, it’s nonetheless not a really perfect report.

On the highway, it’s a 5-4-2 report, which is best.

It’s vital to notice that for the reason that Stanley Cup Remaining in 2021, the CH hasn’t dominated on the Bell Centre. It didn’t play for .500 final 12 months at house (good staff or not, that’s one thing) and in 2021-2022, the membership was higher on the highway.

• 2021-2022: 11-26-4 at house, 11-23-7 on the highway
• 2022-2023: 17-21-3 at house, 14-24-3 on the highway

It’s vital to win video games at house as a result of followers pay large cash to see the membership play. It’s not proper that different groups aren’t afraid to play on the Bell Centre.

However on this explicit case, the CH will even must bounce again, as Martin St-Louis’ males face lengthy weeks away from the Bell Centre. #HolidayTradition

• December 18: Winnipeg (7:30 p.m.)
• December 21: Minnesota (8pm)
• December 22: Chicago (8:30 p.m.)
• December 28: Carolina
• December 30: Florida
• December 31: Tampa Bay
• January 2, 2024: Dallas (8pm)
• Again house afterwards

This sequence, interspersed with Christmas, received’t be simple. Some good groups are on the menu, and lots of aircraft journeys are additionally deliberate for the Habs, who received’t be wanting legs.

Successful video games at house subsequently turns into vital.

In a gust

– Robust shot.

– 80 M earlier than enjoying within the Majors.

– What to recollect in regards to the journey?

– Ah, the songs of the Bell Centre…[98.5 FM]

– Certainly.

Get out of your consolation zone!
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– TVA Sports activities (@TVASports) November 30, 2023