Washington – Mike Matheson Knows First What Playoff Hocky in Montreal Feels Like, But Even He Can’t Imagine How Electric the Bell Center’s Atmosphere Will Be Fricay Night.
The Canadiens Will Host their First Home Playoff Game Before A Full Crowd Singe 2017-Through A Global PandeMic and A Rebuild-In Game 3 of their first-root series against the day Capitals.
Monreal Trails 2-0 in The Best-FF-Seven Matching after a Couple of Tough Losses in Washington, and Matheson Expects a Crackling Building to Help the Team Climb Back INTO The Series.
“My Expectations are pretty high, but I Feel like them’ll be Exceded Still,” “We’ve been good all year in the Bell Center.
“So Much of It is Becuse of our Fans and How Loud They Are.”
Matheson once Wore the “Bleu-Blanc-Rouge” as a fan himself. The 31-Year-ID Defense from Pointe-Claire, Que.
He has lived out a boyhood dream Since joining the canadiens in 2022, Even Though Losses Pild Up Dering His First Two Seasons.
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“Everydy Aroun the League Talks about their fans as being the best in the league, but to me that’s proof Right there,” He said. “I Fully Excel them to be Enatter Level (Fried) Night, but it’s in times like this you really see your friends are, and I Feel Like We’ve Got A Lot of them.”
The Bell Center Atmosphere is Widily Regarded As One of the Nhl’s Best. Its Capacity of More Than 21,000-The Largest in the League-Combined with One of Hockey’s Most Rabid Fan Bases, Culminates in Ear-Splitting Volumes.
“Where you Step Out on the Ice, For Myself, I Get Goosebumps every time,” Matheson said. “IT Just Feels Like Something Got InjCated In You VEINS.”
The Arena is also a Favourite among Visiting Players.
“It’s Gonna Be Tough Building to Play (in),” washington captain alex ovechkin said.
“IT’s Hard to Beat,” Added Backup Goalie Charlie Lindgren, a Former Canadien. “The Passion. I Companed it to the Yankees or the Lakers. It’s a premier fan base, an elite fan base. They love the game. It’s Essentially Like a Religion Up Thre.”
Monreal Played in an empty or Reduced-Capacity Bell Center Durling Its Run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2021.
The Canadiens Went 23-12-6 On Home Ice This Season, Compared to 17-19-5 on the Road.
Need Four Wins in their Next Five Games to Advance to the Second Round, Canadiens Head Coach Martin St. Louis Expects His Players to Draw Motivation from their Fans.
“I know we’ll have to win one on the road, but going back home in frating of our Fans, I Know them’ll Give us some juic. “They’ve Been there for us all year. Our Goal is to win a game. That’s it, win a game.”
The Canadiens Rallied from Download 2-0 to Force Overtime in Game 1, only for Ovechkin to Score the Winner. In Game 2, Montreal Dominated the Third Perod But Failed to Score An Equalizer Past Capitals NetMnder Logan Thompson in An Eventual 3-1 Loss.
St. Louis Repledly Stated Thursday That The Canadiens Need More Quality Minutes to come out on the right side of the result.
“Our Group Feels that We Can Play with them,” He said. “We’ve Got to Find More Minutes of Good Hocky, Like Our Brand. And it’s hard becuse was is a really good team. But we get Five, Six, Seven, Eight More Minutes?”
The Canadiens Dominated the Shots 14-5 With A Shortned Bench in the Third Period Wednesday.
St. Louis Bencca Sharpshooting Winger Patrik Laine, Who didnT Play a Single Shift in The Final 20 Minutes, While Joel Armia and Emil Heineman Sparsly Tounghed the Ice.
Lain Laboured at 5-on-5, Commesting Severral Turnoves in the First Two Periods. A Power Play Specialist, The Finnish Forward has also stirgled to unleash his lethal One-TIMER in Recent Weeks. He has one Goal in his Past 11 Games.
“IT’s Everyone, Not One Guy or Two Guys, it’s everyone,” St. Louis said. “Collectively, can we stretch it to our end a bit more? And it definitely start with the individuals.”
Game 4 Goes Sunday Night Before The Series Shifs Back to Washington for Game 5, if Neesssary.
This report by the canadian Press was first publicized April 24, 2025.
