Follow UsThe Montreal Canadiens will welcome the Carolina Hurricanes to Bell Centre for an NHL game on Saturday. The Montreal Canadiens lost 2-5 in their last game over the Panthers. Sean Farrell scored his first career goal and Rafael Harvey-Pinard had a goal for the Canadiens, who dropped their second in a row. Sam Montembeault made 25 saves. Farrell opened the scoring 1:23 into the first period when the rookie took a shot from along the boards that was mishandled by Lyon and went in.
“It was a really cool moment, it’s something I’ll remember for the rest of my life,” Farrell said, adding that teammates Brendan Gallagher and Jake Evans saw it go in before he did. “I just reacted based off of them, so it was cool to share with those guys.” Lundell tied it at 4:09 with his 11th of the season after Montembeault gave up a rebound off a shot by Tkachuk.
Tkachuk finished off a tic-tac-toe sequence with Brandon Montour and Sam Reinhart to give the Panthers a 2-1 edge 3:59 into the second on the power play. Just under two minutes later, Tkachuk scored his second, beating Montembeault with a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle. Tkachuk completed his hat trick with 20 seconds remaining with an empty-net goal.
The Carolina Hurricanes on the other hand lost 3-2 against the Red Wings in their last game. Carolina defense partners Brent Burns and Jaccob Slavin scored 3:36 apart in the second — at 42 seconds and 4:18. “It’s obviously frustrating but I don’t think we lost the game because of the final minute,” Slavin said. “(Nedeljkovic) played well, but we’ve got to get more traffic in front. We had a couple power plays, but we didn’t get good shots.” Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen made 19 saves in his first loss against Detroit. He entered the game 10-0-1 against the Red Wings.
“It’s a real tough team to play, they just funnel everything to the net,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “It creates scrambles. It’s really disciplined what they do. It’s really hard to play against. I thought for the most part we defended fairly well. We defended second effort in front of the net fairly well. Even their two goals were wristers to the net and found the back of the net. “It’s a good win for us playing an elite team like that, especially an elite team that’s that disciplined in their play,”
Jake Evans – Sean Farrell – Rafaël Harvey-Pinard
Mike Hoffman – Mike Matheson – Justin Barron
Alex Belzile – Jonathan Drouin – Joel Edmundson
Brendan Gallagher – Denis Gurianov
Jordan Harris – Johnathan Kovacevic
Sam Montembeault – Michael Pezzetta
Nick Suzuki – Chris Tierney
Chris Wideman
Jesse Ylönen
Jaccob Slavin – Sebastian Aho – Brent Burns
Jesper Fast – Jordan Staal – Frederik Andersen
Jalen Chatfield – Jack Drury – Shayne Gostisbehere
Seth Jarvis – Jesperi Kotkaniemi
Jordan Martinook – Martin Nečas
Stefan Noesen – Brett Pesce
Jesse Puljujärvi – Brady Skjei
Paul Stastny
Derek Stepan
Montreal Canadiens: Kirby Dach, David Savard , Joel Armia, Sean Monahan, Josh Anderson, Kaiden Guhle, Paul Byron, Christian Dvorak, Arber Xhekaj, Cole Caufield, Carey Price, Juraj Slafkovsky
Carolina Hurricanes: Teuvo Teravainen, Andrei Svechnikov, Ondrej Kase, Max Pacioretty, Jake Gardiner
The game between the Montreal Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes will take place at Bell Centre on Saturday, April 1 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Montreal Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes will be telecast live on Bally Sports South, Fox Sports South.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports South, Fox Sports South. | April 1 (7:00 PM ET) |
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