After a poor defensive effort against the St. Louis Blues, the Montreal Canadiens wanted to tidy up all of that.

What they did instead is put in an even poorer defensive effort.

The Tampa Bay Lightning enjoyed the double whammy of Montreal’s bad defence and bad goaltending, skating to a 6-1 win.

Wilde Horses

There was a lot of consternation that one of the top power play units in the league was broken up in this one. Ivan Demidov was taken off the first unit in favour of Zach Bolduc yet again.

However, it also meant that on the second unit, Oliver Kapanen got his first power play time of the year.

Kapanen looked strong. It was the second unit that counted the Canadiens’ late second-period goal. Ivan Demidov won the blue line on the rush, feeding it beautifully to Nick Suzuki who hi

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