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Habs fall to Canes 2-1
By TonyH | November 19, 2008
Hurricanes hold off Canadiens 2-1
Price: “Whenever they get the puck in a good shooting position, they’re going to be letting it go.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -The punchless Carolina Hurricanes kept peppering Carey Price, and got a couple of pucks past the Montreal goalie just in time.
Sergei Samsonov and Ray Whitney scored 3 1/2 minutes apart in the third period, and Carolina put a season-high 48 shots on net in its come-from-behind 2-1 victory over the Canadiens on Tuesday night.
“We came out with the attitude that we were going to shoot some pucks and crash the net a little bit more,” Samsonov said. “We really made an effort to try to put the puck on net from any position, and I think that kind of created the forecheck.”
Whitney followed Samsonov’s first goal of the season with the go-ahead score with 13:27 remaining to jump-start a Carolina offense that averaged fewer than two goals in its previous six games.
“We’re doing what we’re doing now with not a lot of goal-scoring,” Whitney said.
Robert Lang scored for the Canadiens, who snapped a lengthy power-play drought yet lost for the third time in four games.
“The whole game was about who was going to take a gamble,” Montreal forward Alex Kovalev said. “I think every time we saw (the) opportunity to be on the safe side, we took a gamble, and it cost us. We really (need to) focus on and concentrate on the little details, which is not to worry about points or if you’re going to score a goal. For now, we need to win a couple of games 1-0 or 2-1.
“There are not going to be a lot of goals like there were at the beginning of the season. That’s where it starts.”
Price made a career-high 46 saves and stopped the first 30 shots he faced. Carolina’s 48 shots also were the most allowed by the Canadiens.
“That’s a team that shoots everything,” Price said. “Whenever they get the puck in a good shooting position, they’re going to be letting it go.”
Cam Ward made 28 saves for the Hurricanes, who have won two straight after dropping three in a row.
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