茎s itching for redemption after layoff, host Habs
The Carolina ハリケーンs せねばならない be more than ready to take on the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night -- they will have had five days without a game since a 失望させるing home loss.
"We just played a boatload of really 最高の，を越す-end teams and managed to do pretty 井戸／弁護士席," Carolina coach 棒 Brind'Amour said. "But now you look up to turn the page and there's a whole bunch more coming."
The ハリケーンs 港／避難所't played since a three-goal lead in the third period 消えるd in Saturday's 5-3 loss to visiting Winnipeg.
"We know how we messed this game up," Brind'Amour said. "It just can't happen."
The ハリケーンs were irritated with how they failed to finish in the final period. It was the first time since before Christmas that Carolina 得点する／非難する／２０d three or more goals in 規則 and didn't 勝利，勝つ.
"Really embarrassing. We've got to give ourselves a squeeze, man up, and start playing ホッケー," captain Jordan Staal said. "We 肉親，親類d of just sat 支援する and hoped it wasn't going to go the way it was going and it did."
A 失敗 from goalie Pyotr Kochetkov was の中で the glitches for the ハリケーンs in the Winnipeg game. Brind'Amour doesn't want to put too much 負わせる on that 状況／情勢, preferring to 査定する／（税金などを）課す the bigger 投手.
"He has been so good," he said. "And we love his aggressiveness because that has been part of his 決まりきった仕事."
Of bigger 関心 for the ハリケーンs, who are 19-8-4 in home games, has been more 活動／戦闘 for their 刑罰，罰則-殺人，大当り 部隊s than their 力／強力にする-play groups.
"We're taking too many O-zone 刑罰，罰則s," Brind'Amour said.
Montreal, 一方／合間, should be in a better mood after Tuesday night's 4-3 overtime vict ory at Nashville.
"個々に, you can really see a lot of players' games are 存在 risen to that next level," Canadiens 権利 winger Brendan Gallagher said. "There is excitement around our team. Starting to feel really good about our game. It's 堅い to make those jumps, but we don't want to wait until next year."
Montreal has points in four straight games, 含むing the past three on the road. The young Canadiens, にもかかわらず having the worst goal differential の中で Eastern 会議／協議会 teams at minus-45, are seeing some encouraging results.
"It has been a 過程, like anything you're trying to build," Montreal coach ツバメ St. Louis said. "It takes time. I'm excited for where they're at now. Building that up is not 平易な. 持続するing that is probably harder than building it."
There is still 進歩 to be made in many areas. That 含むs Montreal's 力／強力にする play, which 階級s in the 底（に届く） third of the NHL at 19.1 パーセント.
"Five guys have to be connected," St. Louis said of getting the team's 力／強力にする play clicking.
Carolina won 5-3 against Montreal on Dec. 28 at home, with Jesper 急速な／放蕩な 得点する／非難する／２０ing two goals. 急速な／放蕩な has only six goals this season. The teams will 会合，会う later this month at Montreal.
The ハリケーンs have points in nine of their last 12 games, with victories in eight of those. Montreal is 12-12-7 away from home.
Earlier this week, the ハリケーンs 調印するd 今後 Max Comtois to a one-year 契約. He has played in 210 games with Anaheim, though this season he has been with the Chicago Wolves of the American ホッケー League.
--Field Level マスコミ
