Call of the Wilde: Seattle Kraken trounce Habs 8-2 in embarrassing home ice matchup
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The Montreal Canadiens were back on home ice Tuesday night to face off against the Seattle Kraken. Brian Wilde shares his take in the latest Call of the Wilde.
The Montreal Canadiens hosted the Seattle Kraken Tuesday night in the first meeting ever between Juraj Slafkovsky and Shane Wright on Montreal ice.
The head-to-head matchup, though, had no chance to boil because the Canadiens forfeited the contest only 10 minutes in, allowing four unanswered goals.
Seattle rolled to a 8-2 win.
Obviously, there’s little to like here on an embarrassing night, but there were a couple of positives. Cole Caufield scored again for his ninth goal of the season in 10 games. Caufield has moved into a tie for the league lead in goals. The target is 40 goals. Vincent Damphousse is the last Canadiens player to hit that mark in 1994.
The biggest positive, though, is that the head coach didn’t just spend the night pouting that his players failed to meet their objectives. It would have been easy to just stand there in disgust. We have all seen head coaches stew or disengage.
Martin St. Louis, instead, actually went up and down the bench even more than usual. Every time that he saw a mistake, or a pattern that he did not like, he moved to that player and told him how to do it better.
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This is what has to be done with such a young team. This rebuild is at a stage where the mix is probably too skewed to the young versus the old. Older players know how to massage a game, and earn a win. Young players don’t have a sense of the moment.
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