Martin St. Louis points out the lack of discipline of his players: “This is unacceptable”

It was clearly a memorable game for Montreal. It preached a lack of discipline, and achieved eight numerical superiorities over the Wild. One more than during Connor Bedard’s visit.

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Since Minnesota is a better team than the Hawks, they have benefited from it three times.

“You can’t take that many punishments.” “This is unacceptable,” the Canadian coach said.

He added, smiling at his colleague who wanted to know his opinion about one of the violations committed by Juraj Slavkovski: “We are in such a big problem that I can make anyone warm up on the bench.”

In the locker room, Brendan Gallagher couldn’t believe so many of his teammates had visited the dungeon.

“It’s the best definition of ‘We shot ourselves in the foot’,” he said. “Playing like that, you can’t win a game in this league.” It wasn’t a lack of preparation or energy. We knew what we had to do. We didn’t play smart enough to get the win. “We did not give ourselves a chance.”

Two gifts to the wilderness

As if that wasn’t enough, Dean Evason’s side scored twice during the same penalty shootout, one in which Ryan Hartmann was in the penalty area.

“This can’t happen. It’s our fault, it’s our unit’s responsibility. It completely killed the momentum of the game,” said Sean Monahan, who was on the ice for the first of those two goals.

There will certainly be work to do for the Canadian special teams between now and their next game, scheduled for Saturday, with the visit of the Washington Capitals.