The Montreal Canadiens needed to show their mettle even more than their talent on Saturday night in Vancouver. The talent wasn’t in question in Edmonton. The Canadiens outplayed the Oilers but lost due to some suspect officiating.

The Canadiens wanted to show a robbery wasn’t going to impact their resolve. Montreal had dead legs with a third game in four nights, but they had talent to make up for it. Ivan Demidov counted three points in a 4-3 win.

Wilde Horses

The moment that Ivan Demidov likely won a spot on the first unit power play for good happened late in the second period. Demidov had a great opportunity to take a shot on net from 12 feet. He faked the shot to freeze Kevin Lankinen. Lankinen squared and bit hard on the fake.

Demidov then slid the pass over to Nick Suzuki who had

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