Ten teams have united their efforts to enter a total of 17 goals in the equivalent of 16 periods of play on the first day of the first day National Hockey League Playoffs on Wednesday. This trend seems to give the Canadian manager Claudie Julien a little comfort as his players try to make the ropes vibrate for the first time in their series against the New York Rangers on Friday.
The Canadian manager told his players should not panic because of the Montreal team had lost the inaugural game in the game. He instead that game in playoffs generally gets tighter and does not score many goals.
“We’re trying to find to score more goals. We talked about it on Thursday morning, and we showed things that may help us. But you still have to give credit to their guardian. He made stops while, if the leaps had been favorable to us, we would have scored. That’s why we should not panic. They scored only one against our goalkeeper.” Julien told media.
Speaking in a press conference for the first time since start of the playoffs, Julien say that his player Alexander Radulov was of the opinion that the player has let down some great scoring opportunities.
“We have created opportunities. They were there and Lundqvist gave returns. One or two of these returns should have been exploited.” he added.
On the other hand, defender Alexei Emelin missed the call again at Thursday’s practice session at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard due to his lower body during the game against the Buffalo Sabers a week ago.
However, according to Julien, Emelin is much better now, but his case remains very dubious in view of the second duel of the series. All the other players are ready to play and Julien had made no changes to his training compared to the game on the previous game.
The Canadian manager Claude Julien behind his players during the game. (Source:www.cbc.ca)
Alex Galchenyuk will be back in the fourth trio with Steve Ott and Andreas Martinsen, while the defensive tandem of Nathan Beaulieu and Nikita Nesterov has not been separated, despite an unconvincing performance.
