A difficult three-game road trip for the Montreal Canadiens started with a satisfying win in Utah, but the final two games promised to be more difficult as the competition lifted a notch in Las Vegas, then lifted a hundred notches in Denver.

Samuel Montembeault got the start looking to turn his season around, and he did. It was the best Montembeault has looked this season, powering Montreal to a 4-1 win.

Wilde Horses

The next step in the development of Juraj Slafkovsky has been to do all that he has been doing, but do it faster and do it with some duplicity. NHL players are extremely intelligent. It’s simply not enough to get the puck and start looking around for options — it’s already too late.

Slafkovsky has been fairly successful because of his size, but to reach the next level —

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