[Emrith] Nick Suzuki : « Il nous arrive sans cesse de devoir revenir dans les matchs – ce n’est pas là que nous voulons être. Nous avons eu une très mauvaise première période et cela ne peut certainement pas arriver ; nous continuons à nous creuser des trous… «
#Habs Nick Suzuki: "it just keeps happening for us that we need to claw back into games – that's not where we want to be. We had a really bad 1st period and that definitely can't happen; we keep digging ourselves holes…"
— Priyanta Emrith (@HabsInHighHeels) December 3, 2023
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Nick Suzuki: « … we just seemed to keep turning the puck over, making dumb mistakes at our blueline, their blueline, gave up a shorty so it was a bad 1st period from us; I liked the fight the rest of the game but when you give a whole 20 minutes away, it’s hard to win. »
We’re getting killed in first periods all season long. I don’t think it’s lack of effort or anything, all teams come out hard in the first, and there is a big talent gap between us and most teams. Add to that that this is a pretty inexperienced defence corps.
They just seem to have bad period every game. Very few complete games. You can point to rebuilding or whatever, but there are still way too many truly awful period IMO.
They played a very good team and scored 4 goals to push them to overtime. Yes the defense was rough but we finally had a game where we capitalized on our opportunities. We have to remember how many of our defenseman are currently injured and on top of that dach and newhook are out. On the positive side Evans did a great job at clearing the puck on the penalty kill which he has done so with little credit this year.