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[Mitch Gallo @MitchyGallo]

Here are my three takeaways from tonight’s 6-1 Montreal Canadiens loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final brought to you by Snap Bar Sportif in Rigaud.

1- Montreal goes out with a whimper

On one hand, it’s unfortunate that the lasting image of the Montreal Canadiens’ season will be an elimination game where they went down without much of a fight. On the other hand, maybe that’s not the worst thing.

For the players, this is a game they should sit with all summer. They’ll know that while they were only seven wins away from the Stanley Cup, they weren’t particularly competitive against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final. Sometimes that’s the reminder young players need. There’s always another level to reach.

Game 5 was a carbon copy of Game 4. Carolina pounced early and never looked back. Mike Matheson getting pickpocketed seconds into the game leading to a quality scoring chance felt like foreshadowing for what was about to happen. The goals came early, the Hurricanes took control and before anyone could settle in, the game was out of reach.

The playoffs are a grind and the Canadiens looked like a team that had nothing left in the tank. That's not an excuse, it's reality. Their path to the Eastern Conference Final went through two long, emotional series against excellent teams. Meanwhile, Carolina earned the right to face weaker opponents by finishing first in the Eastern Conference.

The Hurricanes are also simply the better and more experienced team.

Sticking with the status quo made sense. There wasn't a lineup change that was suddenly going to bridge the gap. Brendan Gallagher and Arber Xhekaj are fan favourites, but a fourth-line forward or sixth defenseman isn't the difference when you're getting dominated territorially the way Montreal was.

People want answers. They want accountability and someone to blame.

Sometimes the answer is simple.

It's just not your time yet.

2- It was a wonderful season for the Canadiens

This season was an overwhelming success for the Canadiens.

At the start of the year, most people would have considered a playoff berth and looking competitive in the postseason a major step forward. Instead, Montreal beat two higher-seeded teams and finished as one of the final three teams standing.

Individually, there was significant growth throughout the roster.

Cole Caufield scored 50 goals. Nick Suzuki reached 100 points. Ivan Demidov was a Calder Trophy finalist. Jakub Dobes showed he can handle the spotlight when the games matter most. Lane Hutson built on his Calder-winning rookie season and rounded out his game even further.

And that's only scratching the surface.

As a team, they took major strides under Martin St. Louis. They played more connected hockey, improved defensively, increased their point total and won multiple playoff rounds for the first time since 2021.

All while remaining one of the youngest teams in the league.

But the biggest takeaway isn't the individual milestones or playoff wins.

For the first time in more than 30 years, the Canadiens look like they're being built the right way.

This wasn't a run fueled by a superstar goalie standing on his head. It wasn't a veteran group sneaking into the playoffs hoping lightning would strike.

Their best players are young. Their core is intact. And many of them are still years away from their peak.

Montreal isn't going anywhere.

3- What now?

If there's one thing Carolina showed, it's that building a contender takes time.

The Canadiens are clearly not a finished product and internal improvement alone won't be enough. Kent Hughes has work to do this summer.

Oliver Kapanen had an excellent rookie season, scoring more than 20 goals and developing chemistry with Ivan Demidov. But his game fell off in the playoffs and he's probably better suited to a complementary role.

The same can be said for Jake Evans. He battled hard and filled the role of 2C as best he could, but he's not the long-term answer.

Montreal still needs a legitimate top-six center to play alongside Demidov. They need someone who can think the game at the same level and finish some of the elite plays the young winger creates.

Hughes admitted he was close to making a significant move at the trade deadline before a deal fell through. He also hinted it could be revisited in the summer.

One would assume it has to be that missing piece in the top-6.

The Canadiens should also be looking to add some sandpaper to the fourth line, preferably someone with playoff experience, while continuing to add size and physicality on the blue line.

The Canadiens made enormous progress this season and are ahead of schedule.

Now comes the hard part.

Turning a promising young team into an eventual Stanley Cup winner.

@tsn690

[Mitch Gallo @MitchyGallo]

Here are my three takeaways from tonight’s 4-0 Montreal Canadiens loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, brought to you by Snap Bar Sportif in Rigaud.

1- Carolina just keeps getting better

The Montreal Canadiens were dominated for large stretches of Game 3 but still hung around and were one scoring chance away from grabbing a 2-1 series lead. In Game 4, Carolina controlled things from start to finish and this time it wasn’t particularly close, including on the scoreboard.

A lot of Montreal’s wounds were self-inflicted. Carolina is excellent at taking pucks away and in this game the Canadiens were equally good at turning them over. Against a team this structured and this aggressive, poor puck management is basically a death sentence.

The door was slightly open early when Montreal got a couple of power plays, but Carolina’s penalty kill was excellent again and the Canadiens generated very little that looked threatening.

At the end of the day, Montreal couldn’t break the forecheck, couldn’t get through the neutral zone cleanly and eventually looked completely smothered. As the game wore on, the Canadiens became visibly frustrated emotionally and started forcing plays that simply weren’t there.

Martin St. Louis has talked all season about this group learning through failure. Well, Carolina is showing Montreal just how much there still is to learn.

2- MSL tried different things, but it didn’t matter

With the Canadiens down three goals in the third period, Martin St. Louis finally broke up the top line for the first time in these playoffs outside of a couple brief moments in the Tampa series.

At that point though, it already felt too late. Carolina was completely comfortable, in control and playing with confidence.

Could St. Louis have shuffled things earlier? Maybe. But realistically, it probably doesn’t change the outcome of this game. These combinations worked all season and throughout the first two rounds, so making panic changes before tonight probably would have been a case of doing something simply for the sake of doing something.

And for anyone thinking Brendan Gallagher or Arber Xhekaj would have dramatically changed a game like this, it’s probably time for a reality check.

The Hurricanes have won more playoff series over the last three years than every team except Florida and Edmonton. They finished first in the Eastern Conference and rolled through the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Montreal simply ran into a team that is more experienced, more committed to its structure and, right now, just better.

3- What does Montreal have left for Game 5?

Technically, the series isn’t over, even if the Canadiens looked completely defeated leaving the ice tonight.

The Bell Centre emptied out early and for the first time all playoffs, the energy around the team felt genuinely deflated. The task now is daunting: win three straight, including two games in Carolina, against the best team in the Eastern Conference.

But the Canadiens can’t think about winning three games. The focus has to be winning one.

If they can force a Game 6 back at the Bell Centre, maybe the pressure shifts a little and maybe the crowd gets one more chance to breathe life into the series.

As lopsided as things have looked at times, Montreal did beat Carolina in Game 1 and lost two overtime games. There have still been stretches where they’ve been right there.

The Canadiens also still have enough offensive talent to swing a game quickly and Carolina, for all its dominance territorially, can occasionally go dry offensively despite controlling the analytics.

The biggest thing now is adjustments. Montreal and its coaching staff haven’t found answers yet and honestly, a lot of things got worse in Game 4, especially in the opening period.

It feels like the Canadiens are ready to wave the white flag and it’s time for Carolina to just put them out of their misery.

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@kami4374 @wyshynski It doesn't matter because if the call on the ice was no goal it would've been overturned anyways

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@SirTerrinald @MountainGenera The whole bio is a dead give away this person is not mentally well

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@redeemed_zoomer Didn't know it was Orange Shirt Day again

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@CLeighliter @vir_sin_nomine @WorldVideo49043 @redeemed_zoomer Its has a 5-10% regular church attendance, it's not the migrants. The French decided to cling to secularism

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@chasingcars0406 Potential bomb threat on a plane

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@HonestWade @TheDanRyanKills @Oh_Pee_Em @MensHumor Did the tenant inform the landlord of the leaky pipe? If not that's on the tenant cause a landlord can't see that when he doesn't live there

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@ColinDynamo @TechBinary99 @Pirat_Nation He said effectively the same so it sounds like he was getting pay that was bumped up with inflation, its just Vancouver's prices soared in the same time period. The other thing is that LTT isn't based in Vancouver proper, it's in Surrey, rent is 30% cheaper there.

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