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Montreal Canadiens: You’d like to think they can beat Toronto

Montreal and Toronto played the 5th game of their six-game season series tonight.  Montreal was not able to win any of these games in regulation, losing one and going to OT four times, but luckily coming out with seven points in the standings.  Indeed, Montreal was thoroughly outshot over these five games, making those a very lucky seven points:

 

SF SA PCT TOI TOI GF GA S%F S%A
tied 167 194 51.9 10131 6 5 3.59 2.58
mtl down 1 37 29 10.9 2123 4 1 10.81 3.45
mtl down 2 11 15 4.3 842 0 1 0.00 6.67
mtl down 3 33 33 10.2 1987 0 0 0.00 0.00
tor down 1 32 45 10.6 2063 3 3 9.38 6.67
tor down 2 27 59 12.1 2365 0 3 0.00 5.08
ot 19 16 921 2 0 10.53 0.00
tied/reg 148 178 9210 4 5 2.70 2.81
total 307 375 100 19511 13 13 4.23 3.47

 

Toronto is a bad team, and yet Montreal didn't really even play them to a draw, relying on Toronto's execrable goaltending to bail them out.  If I was looking at New Jersey, Pittsburgh or Buffalo in the first round of the playoffs, I'd want to know that my team could mop the floor with the Leafs.

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