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About last night …

Could your Montreal Canadiens – with a few bounces and more opportune shooting _ have won the game?
Absolutely.
Were they deprived of a W because of sub-par performances by a few key players.
Perhaps.
But there’s a tendency, in these parts, to assess games purely on the basis of how well or poorly our heroes perform.
We tend to forget the opponent can be capable of playing good hockey.
For the final 40 minutes of Wednesday night’s game, Boston played really good hockey.

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