Benn has 2 goals, assist and Stars beat Canadiens 6-2
CANADIEN BACON The Dallas Stars face off against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night at American Airlines Center and meets Montreal on home ice for the first of two meetings during the 2015-16 season.
“You need your best players to be your best players and tonight he was”, Ruff said of Benn.
“(Spezza) got a pretty nice goal early to fire us up and win the crowd”, Benn said. “We found a way to score a few in the second, and we made some big saves”.
“Without a doubt they dominated the third period”, said Kings defenceman Drew Doughty, who had a goal and an assist. “He senses the urgency when the team’s dipping”.
In the regular season, the National Hockey League makes shorter, more exciting games a priority with its overtime format. Canadiens defenseman Jeff Petry was attempting to clear the puck after Condon denied a wrist shot by Seguin from the right side. They sometimes get frustrated when they just get it into the zone and I take them off, but I don’t want them to play for another 25 seconds and have to come back to our end and play for 20 seconds because now the shift gets too long. “We were fortunate enough to keep it in and move it around a bit, and Seguin made a pretty good shot there”. The Canadiens have now lost three straight and seven of their last eight.
The loss snapped a seven-game win streak for the Flames. We lost some games at the Bell Centre that we believe we were playing some really, really good hockey.
The Stars have struggled in recent seasons in back-to-back games, but they have improved this season.
Dallas Stars coach Lindy Ruff expects a lot from left winger and captain Jamie Benn. Then, Demers was again whistled for a questionable call – this time goaltender interference – and things got tense. Antti Niemi has allowed 47 goals on 517 shots faced and Kari Lehtonen has given up 34 goals on 398 shots. Dustin Tokarski replaced him in net 4:27 into the third period.
The reality of the situation, however, is that the Canadiens have been missing all-world netminder Carey Price since he went down with a lower body injury on November 30th.
Spezza carried the puck from Dallas’ blue line to the right faceoff circle for his goal. “I though he sold him on the shot (fake), and he one-step passed it and found the top corner”.
Tinordi was loaned to Montreal’s AHL affiliate, the St. John’s IceCaps, for a conditioning stint from November 26-Dec. 6.
After sending forward Charles Hudon back to the minors on Friday morning, the Canadiens recalled prized prospect Michael McCarron. The offense managed to chip in two additional goals, and the 6-2 final was wholly indicative of the one-sided affair it appeared to be. In 38 games, he scored only two goals and retired for a second time. They were so far ahead of the rest of the East at the time that now over two weeks later and with 43 points, they still hold the second seed after an 0-6-1 slide.