Two losses. That’s the point at which an NHL team must recover to stop the bleeding. Teams with a lot of three-game losing skids often don’t make the playoffs.

Montreal was much better against the Winnipeg Jets Wednesday night. It went to a shootout with the Canadiens coming through to win 3-2.

Wilde Horses

The Canadiens showed so much more than they did against the Senators on Tuesday. They finished their checks. They used the body a lot more. They found their man defensively with more success. The lines that the head coach switched to had more cohesion.

Juraj Slafkovsky was moved back to the first line because that line was not winning its shifts without him. Zach Bolduc was relegated all the way to the fourth line after not seizing his opportunity at all. Alex Texier got a spot on t

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