Games Tonight Affecting Sens

While I get that view on their part, they shouldn't underestimate the effect having "bandwagon" locals being able to experience playoff games too...



Isn't taking a trip out to the CTC in person at non-game-time a pretty solid sign of one's commitment :laugh: /hj

I'll put it this way. There is a very large contingent of the market who spends enough on the secondary market that they could be captured for an SSM package.

Everybody can't get into the playoff games and season tickets are a tough sell when you can go on StubHub on gameday and pay $30 CAD a ticket. So they need to do what they can to add value.
 
It's an impressive run - it reminds me a bit of the Hamburglar run where it was a lot of exciting moments and a bit of a welcome surprise.

To their credit, they wanted to be "in da mix" and they are, which is meeting expectations at the minimum.

One interesting statistic is the 8 3rd period comeback wins (including against us) and 3 OT losses from a 3rd period comeback. That's a big chunk of their points. They ride that emotion in the 3rd so well.

By contrast, we have 3 3rd period comeback wins.

At the same time, they are down in the 3rd period a lot. If you look at wins with the lead after 2, Montreal is down in 22nd, with Anaheim, Columbus, Utah, Philadelphia, Nashville, Pittsburgh Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Jose, see a trend here, behind them.

We are 9th, on par with Colorado, Toronto, Edmonton...

I think they are a bit of a cinderella team this year. But that's probably better than expectations, and getting playoff experience is critical for younger players.
MTL has a -17 Goal differential, that's 1 ahead of Buffalo. this season could very easily look very different for them.

It's a game of inches, the difference between Buffalo, Det Clb, NYI and MTL is virtually nothing.
 
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Shesterkin has been pretty bad this year, at least compared to expectations.
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Obviously it's going to drop, but Shesterkin has only been slightly outplayed by ullmark. rangers have an atrocious defence.
 
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Only real contender for Montreal to worry about is Detroit. If they beat them tomorrow, the race is effectively over. However Detroit has a game in hand and if they can beat mtl tomorroe, then it gets a bit more interesting. Maybe one of us or Toronto can beat MTL as well this weekend, that would fully open the window for the wings.

Long shot but it’s possible. Habs still gotta win tomorrow
 

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