The second game of Montreal's 3 game road trip is tonight in Carolina. Carolina (9-7-2), who by the way are sporting some new jerseys, is having trouble putting the puck in the net averaging only 1.83 goals per game. A large part of that is the lack production from 24 year old Eric Staal. Staal, who had 38 goals and 44 assists last season, only has 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists) in 18 games. Players to look out for: veterans Ray Whitney (4 goals, 10 assists) and Rod Brind'Amour (7 goals, 6 assists).
If Montreal would like another W, they need to stay out of the box. They got 9 penalties in St. Louis. Also, hopefully special teams coach Doug Jarvis has erased the board on the powerplay and started from scratch because it ain't working. Montreal has gone 2 and 36 on the powerplay.
Carbo has decided to stay with his new line of Tanguay-Koivu-Kovalev. Montreal needs production and we all have our fingers crossed that this will be it the answer. Price is starting in net tonight and
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