Rick’s Preview Canadiens vs CBJ Game #65 03/12/24

Rick’s Preview Canadiens vs CBJ Game #65 03/12/24

It’s time for Rick’s preview of game number 65 Columbus Blue Jackets versus Montreal Canadians hey everybody I’m Rick welcome to talking havs where you get your daily fix of blue blonde Rouge so we got game number 65 uh so after this game 17 games left

Uh nearing the end of the of the Season uh Columbus is in town Columbus uh a little bit behind Montreal in the standings um pretty even these two teams as you’ll see in the uh with all the stats and everything um I mean it’s it’s an even game Montreal still should win

This game uh Columbus is playing well right now uh so we’ll talk about that in a second so what I got for you is I got some news there’s not much news today uh I got that I’ve got the stats for the game the lineups for the the the game

Tonight and I have uh this up here the guest the score contest guest the score of the game in the first goal scorer of the game you pick that guy from either team be the first one in the chat with that guest and be from Canada to win um

And then you win if you’re right the $10 cash prize directly into your bank account via interact which is the reason why it’s only Canada um until something changes anywhere else in the world it’s going to only be Canada for a little while um all right so got some news like

I said not much news the uh Blue Jackets as I said I’ve been playing well lately uh they’ve been better better hockey as of late as I’ve said giving up only two or less goals in six of their last nine games uh and and for the previous 55

Games they only did that 10 times so um they’re playing a lot better let’s put that way uh for for now I don’t know how long that can last uh Columbus sits third from the bottom in goals against so they third worst team in goals against uh let’s see if Montreal can um

Score some goals against him tonight Kaden Primo gets the start tonight for Montreal Elvis Mur leans gets the start for Columbus uh his last start was 10 days ago so he’s either Rusty or he’s fresh one of the two um kovich uh Jonathan kovich is in tonight

And Jordan Harris is out and then I got some NHL news you’ve probably all seen the Matt Ry hit um on um New Jersey’s uh Sean ther I don’t know his first name so once again uh another dirty uh Matt rampy hit he’s in trouble again

This time he’s GNA get a phone hearing he’s a firsttime offender though all everything else went by the wayside I guess in his short time uh he’s a first-time offender so only expect I two or three games it should be more than that but it’s only going to be two or

Three games in my opinion all right my guess for the guest to score contest uh since I give it every time I don’t win the money but I make a guess uh by the way good luck to everybody making their guesses uh we’ve had two winners so far this year let’s get a

Third uh so for my my guess is 42 Montreal I’m going to give the first goal to Joshua Ro 4 to Montreal RO with the first goal we’ll see if I’m right all right let’s get to this game we have the 2232 and 10 Columbus Blue Jackets facing the 2430 and 10 Montreal

Canadians how to watch this game 700 p.m Eastern 400 PM Pacific uh in the havs region TSN 2 in English RDS and French and in Blue Jackets region B Sports Ohio streaming ESPN plus RDS TSN plus and where I’m going to watch it sportset now season series um in Montreal October 26th we

Beat them four to3 in overtime and in Columbus on the 29th of November we beat them four to2 so I I’m saying four to two tonight it’s you know four goals a game it seems like we can score against them uh BL if I’m right uh they will be playing them

Uh that’s it for the season after tonight so uh we’ve won the season series let’s see if we can sweep them last 10 Blue Jackets 55 and0 and when you’re saying a team has played a lot better lately and they’re only 55 and0 their last 10 how bad were they before

Uh they lost their last game to Nashville though Canadians are 26 and two and they’ve lost their last two to Carolina and Toronto but they played well in I want to say in both games I can’t remember to score Toronto for sure it was only three2 um Caroline I think we

Were close I can’t remember to score that’s that’s kind of I’m old uh Home and Away records uh Columbus is away they’re 1021 uh 10 and 21 on the road and at home Montreal is 12 and 20 uh the Atlantic standings top to bottom Florida still leading uh by one

With 92 points Boston with 91 Toronto with 82 and Tampa with 74 that’s the top four Detroit 72 Buffalo 65 points Montreal with 58 and Ottawa bringing up the rear with 54 bottom 10 this is where Montreal stands in the league still they’re seventh from the bottom from top to

Bottom the Devils 66 points Buffalo with 65 Pittsburgh 64 Montreal with 58 Arizona 57 Ottawa 54 Columbus also 54 Anaheim 49 and sharks and Blackhawks both both with 39 points tail of the tape here tonight scoring chances for percentage that’s possession numbers 44.8% for mreal 28th 47.9% for the jackets 23rd goals per

Game 2.75 for Montreal 27th 2.97 for Blue Jackets 21st goals against per game 3.48 for Montreal 27th and 3.61 for the jackets 31st power play percentage 18.8% for Montreal 23rd and 14.2% for the jackets 31st PK percentage 75.1% for montre Royale 28th and 76.6% for the jackets 25th not much

Difference there basically both don’t have great special teams uh Montreal is just a little bit better on there but uh not much very closely matched uh game tonight we’ll see it should be relatively close or maybe the jackets are due to win I don’t know I still have

Montreal winning uh so far two10 this season and the jackets 01-1 um Faceoff percentage coming into this game the jackets are 46.7% 28th in the league Montreal at 5 2% even eighth in the league but that number has dropped since um Monahan got

Traded as I said not a ton of a ton but they were like at 50 I want to say they were at 54 55% when Monahan was traded and with the vorak out and yeah that number was going to drop uh shots per game shots on goal

Allowed and shots on goal four on the allowed side 33.6 for the jackets and 33.2 for Montreal and on the sh on goal four 30.3 for them and 28.4 for Montreal players to watch over the last five games for points Alexon texier has six points for them Coffield has five

Goals neander Alexander neander with four newly Acquired and Nick Suzuki with two assists Zack wensky with four Cole Coffield with five and plus minus War I with a plus4 Arbor Jacky with a plus three team leaders in goals for the jackets Boon Jenner with 19 and Nick Suzuki with

25 uh points Johnny godo with 45 and Nick Suzuki with 61 average time on Ice wensky 2415 and mat 2531 and wins Elvis murans with 12 and Monty with 13 and it’s nice to see all around uh halves have the better numbers all around than another team that’s like not

Usual uh jackets top five scoring Johnny hockey leading the way 10 goals 35 assists 45 points minus 20 wary is next 4 and 34 for 38 points and a plus five marchenko is next 17- 15 for 32 points and he’s even and voronov 17 and 14 with

31 points and plus six and rounding it out boom Jenner 19 goals 10 assist 29 Points and a minus three for the Habs Nick Suzuki leads the way 25 goals 36 assists 61 points minus 17 Cole Coffield 19- 32 for 51 points and a

Minus 6 mat 9 and 37 four 46 points and a minus 26 uh Monahan not here slap cof I uh 13 and 20 for 33 points and a minus 19 and couple more points and he’s tied with Monahan and he’ll overtake him for sure uh new hook uh 10 goals 11 assists 21

Points and a minus 7 and that’s the top five goalies tonight uh Mur leans Monty’s not starting but Mur leans is 12 and thir 12 13 and S 321 goals against and a 904 sa percentage and if you look at Monty’s numbers I mean that’s virtually the same um

Numbers uh for Montreal is going to be Kaden Primo Primo making his 14th start tonight he is 56 and two he has a 304 goals against and a 901 save percentage so let’s see with some more regular a little bit more regular reps the rest of

The way if he can improve on those numbers uh Blue Jackets uh a lineup Blue Jackets lines Jenner goodro and chikov first line vonv fix wansi and marchenko second line singer texier neander third line carali Meyer and Olivier fourth line wensky and boquist first pair proov serson second

Pair bean and good Branson third pair Merle and starting terasa bounce um backing him up that’s it you see on the bottom there Adam Fant Tilly unfortunately not in the lineup would it be nice to see Fant Tilly play uh Habs forward lines uh unchanged I believe

From last um last game Suzuki Coffield slav kovsky new hook Roat armia Evans Gallagher Anderson and it’s going to be Harvey pinard centering that not Pearson uh petta and Pearson on the wings for him as it’s been for the last couple of games defensive pairings mat ghouly Jack I saard strubel and

Kovacevich and that is it I got nothing else so um I’m expecting um maybe a tighter game than you might think I still think that Montreal will beat them it might not be by two goals but I think I still think they’ll beat them even if they go to overtime um yeah

I mean um I I don’t know what else to say it’s going to be a tight game and Montreal should Prevail in this game I think um you know Kaden Primo um I don’t know is he ever play yeah he has played against Columbus I’m not sure what his record is

But he’s playing well he should be have a little bit more confidence after Jake Allen was uh traded um and let’s see if we get I don’t know we might have a really good game here from Primo see that’s it I’m going to stop babbling away because I don’t know what

To say this thanks for watching how’s that thanks for watching I’ll be back at 7 with the um with the hangout for the game and then the uh post game show on the other channel don’t Puck with media so don’t forget to check that out all links are in the description for

Everything and that’s it thanks for watching I’ll see you later stay safe out there peace out have a great day ciao everybody

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