Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens shade the Winnipeg Jets in a shootout
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Canadiens' GM Kent Hughes has much to be pleased with as his blue line of the future is taking shape, Brian Wilde says.
The Montreal Canadiens have played five games in eight nights, and it has been a good stretch in terms of both results and development.
General manager Kent Hughes has much to be pleased with as his blue line of the future is taking shape.
The Winnipeg Jets were in town on Saturday night with the Canadiens stealing that one in a shootout, 4-3. It is only two losses in eight games this season for Montreal.
One aspect of the rebuild that is easy to appreciate is Martin St. Louis’ desire to improve playing a creative and enjoyable brand of hockey.
Often when a head coach knows that he is outmanned for talent, he will try to take the game out of the game. Jacques Martin would make sure the final shots were 18-15 with five players defending throughout.
That makes the coach look good to keep it competitive, but it doesn’t help the player learn how to play the brand of hockey that wins cups and playoff series.
The right way to play hockey these days is, five players can attack and five players can defend. It’s “total” hockey in 2023, and it’s infinitely more exciting than the dead puck era when the league’s scoring champion didn’t even have a point-per-game season.
The freedom that Justin Barron is being given seems to be turning him into the player that the Canadiens were hoping for. Barron is joining the rush — in fact, in the first period, when he scored, he led the rush. That’s three goals for Barron, and all were with offensive freedom and creativity, and essentially from good coaching.
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