The Florida Panthers defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1, with the turning point being a penalty by Joel Armia that led to a power-play goal. The Canadiens struggled with their penalty kill, which has been a recurring issue. The game saw the Panthers pick apart the Canadiens' penalty kill to take a 2-1 lead. Despite outshooting the New York Rangers 35-21, the Tampa Bay Lightning lost 5-1. The Canadiens' playoff hopes suffered as they lost three consecutive games on a post-Christmas road trip.
My story on Canadiens losing 4-3 to the Tampa Bay Lightning last night. It was third straight loss on post-Christmas road trip, which is where #Habs playoff hopes usually go to die. #HabsIO: https://t.co/3wiTsiGv8u
And a look back to last night's #GoBolts home loss to the #NYR with four reasons that led to the defeat. https://t.co/nmhiuYAOzd
My story on the Canadiens losing 4-1 to the Panthers in Florida Saturday night. The turning point was a really dumb roughing penalty by #Habs Joel Armia with the score tied 1-1 in the third period #HabsIO: https://t.co/L1BTSRCify
An untimely, terrible penalty from Joel Armia proved costly for the Canadiens. As Martin St. Louis said, that has to be addressed. The penalty kill will be much harder to fix. “It’s been killing us lately,” said Nick Suzuki. It has been killing them all season. 👇🏻 https://t.co/j2ly44sh8r
The Montreal Canadiens look like a team that can’t afford to take a penalty at any point of any game, against any opponent, as their penalty kill was a mess once again during Saturday's 4-1 loss to the Florida Panthers. (@EricEngels) https://t.co/RwB2TvVnIY
My story on the Canadiens losing 4-1 to the Panthers in Florida Saturday night. The turning point was a really dumb roughing penalty by the #Habs Joel Armia with the score tied 1-1 in the third period #HabsIO: https://t.co/L1BTSRCify
That's it for this one. #Bolts fall 5-1 to the Rangers. Right back at it tomorrow night vs. Montreal.
#GoBolts lose 5-1 to #NyR at home despite outshooting them 35-21.
Final from @AmalieArena #GoBolts fall 5-1 to the Rangers, right back at it tomorrow night against Montreal
#Habs Joel Armia doesn't miss a shift after taking that stupid penalty that resulted in PP goal by Panthers to take the lead. #HabsIO
Will be intersting to see of #Habs Joel Armia gets back on the ice the rest of this game. He shouldn't.
What a dumb and costly penalty by #Habs Joel Armia. Panthers go up 2-1 with PP goal.
#Habs Joel Armia is such a frustrating player to watch. Can't imagine what it's like for his coach.
END OF 2: Panthers 1, Canadiens 1 FLA held MTL to just 1 scoring chance at 5-on-5 that period.
Panthers just pick Canadiens penalty kill apart to make it 2-1. That looked way too easy.