Olivier Bouchard was nice enough to record last night's scoring chances. Here's the 14-game history of the Habs 2009-10 playoff run:
| Team | Game | SCF | SCA | GF | GA |
| WSH | 1 | 19 | 35 | 3 | 2 |
| WSH | 2 | 16 | 23 | 5 | 6 |
| WSH | 3 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 5 |
| WSH | 4 | 21 | 22 | 3 | 6 |
| WSH | 5 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 1 |
| WSH | 6 | 20 | 36 | 4 | 1 |
| WSH | 7 | 16 | 28 | 2 | 1 |
| PIT | 1 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 6 |
| PIT | 2 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 1 |
| PIT | 3 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| PIT | 4 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 2 |
| PIT | 5 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 2 |
| PIT | 6 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 3 |
| PIT | 7 | 13 | 35 | 5 | 2 |
| TOTALS | 215 | 347 | 39 | 40 | |
| Score% | 18.1 | 11.5 |
Here's the time played by score for the series:
| TOI | Pct | |
| Down 4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Down 3 | 570 | 2.3 |
| Down 2 | 3281 | 13.0 |
| Down 1 | 5101 | 20.2 |
| Tied | 6804 | 27.0 |
| Up 1 | 6080 | 24.1 |
| Up 2 | 1986 | 7.9 |
| Up 3 | 1176 | 4.7 |
| Up 4 | 202 | 0.8 |
The Habs were down 35.5% of the time, and up 37.5% of the time. Score effects had very little impact on total scoring chances – Pittsburgh really did get almost twice as many opportunities as Montreal, a very effective defensive strategy by the Canadiens if there ever was one.
