Canadiens @ Canucks Top Six Minutes: The power play comes through in the clutch

Pre-game

• Carey Price is going to get a shut out today, book it.
• The Canucks top LW is...squints...Antoine Roussel. Wait, what?
• I have a really good feeling about this game. Prove me right, Habs!/

First Period

• Today’s game will feature a battle between Finland and Sweden. I wonder who’s side Patrik is on?
• An early Montreal power play. No, really...the good guys got on the man advantage literally less then a minute in.
• Charles Hudon is setting teammates up left, right, and centre. The best of these go to Delauriers who just misses putting the Habs on the board first.
• Back-to-back penalties for the Canadiens, who just can’t seem to keep their sticks on the ice.
• Carey Price’s red pads are gloriously distracting.
• As the buzzer sounds, neither team is able to break the deadlock. Not a bad start for the Habs./

Second Period

• The Canucks are testing a new grit it out strategy. Let’s see if it pays off.
• Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Tomas Tatar continues to do what he always does and puts the Habs up 1-0.
• Perennial whipping boy Jeff Petry is quietly tied for 8th in the NHL for scoring by defencemen.
• Darn that Del Zotto for ruining my prediction. Tie game.
• A power play to end the period didn’t do much to help the Habs.
• At least it is still a tie game./

Third Period

• Early penalty? No problemo. The Habs penalty kill is on point.
• Claude Julien has the most interesting reactions when he is angry.
• The young Swede on the wrong team puts the bad guys up a goal on a garbage call.
• But Andrew Shaw responds in kind! Take that you smelly Canucks!
• The hockey gods giveth and the hockey gods taketh. In this case, it is Drouin’s turn to shine.
• Well I was nearly right./

Highlight of the Night

#Habs score eight seconds into Del Zotto's penalty, Drouin scores his seventh of the year. pic.twitter.com/e8xCpDiAJB

— Scott Matla (@scottmatla) November 18, 2018

EOTP 3 Stars

3) TUNA TATAAAAARE!

2) Quite the finish.

1) The return of Price de Nice!