Canadiens’ Guhle Had Big Game
Kaiden Guhle has been solid for the Montreal Canadiens in Sunday night's defeat and he played a punishing style, being a thorn in the Tampa Bay Lightning's side.
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Ryan, the, the physicality.
This is, this is a Lightning team that I just wrote about today, kind of has taken a page out of the Florida Panthers' playbook.
Led the- Mm-hmm NHL in penalty minutes this year.
so far is following that trend into the playoffs.
can this work?
Jon Cooper said, you know, "Someone's gotta be the villain," and it might as well be the Tampa Bay Lightning now that the Florida Panthers are out.
But is this a winning strategy in your opinion?
I, I certainly think it is.
And, you know, it- it's the team of Corey Perry, and if you have Corey Perry- you know that there's gonna be chaos.
You know there's gonna be l- habitual line stepping, and, there's gonna be fun if you're not the ones playing against them.
And I think that Montreal team in particular is a good one to, you know, i- implicate this strategy because they have a lot of smaller players.
And, and then they have a lot of sort of wild card players that, you know, like i- if you wanna go toe-to-toe physically with Tampa Bay, then you're putting Arber Xhekaj out there.
And if he, Arber Xhekaj's not fighting, he's a liability.
And, you know, we saw it in game two.
He didn't play very much.
And ironically, you know, Tampa has to be careful because they put Scott Sabourin out there late in the third period and he took a penalty, when it was tied.
And in my mind I'm like, "Well, that's the game over.
Montreal's gonna score on the power play 'cause that's what they've done this series."
Luckily, for the Bolts, they escaped it, so we might not see a lot of Scott Sabourin from here on out.
But, you know, Tampa Bay is comfortable playing in the mud, and they have enough skill that even when they're doing that they know, like, they've got Nikita Kucherov.
You know?
They've got Brayden Point.
They've got guys that can make a difference that way.
So yeah, I think this is, the way to do it, and it'll be interesting to see, you know, do we see any Montreal lineup changes, for game three?
