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After the team’s morning skate, Martin St-Louis was asked if it was starting to get hard to put a line-up together with all the injuries by Martin Maguire and his reply was crystal clear: “Starting? Starting to get hard?” and he laughed. The question was prompted by the fact that Jordan Harris is now day-to-day with a lower-body injury and that Christian Dvorak will also be unavailable.

Thankfully, Kaiden Guhle is ready to come back in which means that he’ll fill in for Harris while the team has recalled Anthony Richard to take over from Dvorak. The Canadiens injury woes are really getting ridiculous now, most of the line-up is made out with AHL players and the single silver lining this season was to watch kids progress and several of them are now missing. Thankfully, the season will soon be over, and everyone will have plenty of time to heal.

Hopefully, the Habs’ brass takes a long hard look at their medical staff and the way they handle injuries. For the second time this season, a member of the organisation, in this case the head coach, said that players had to be protected from themselves when reminded that Guhle came back to finish the game in which he was injured. A few weeks ago, GM Kent Hughes also said those exact words so why are players just not being pulled from games when an injury occurs? It’s not like the Canadiens need to win those games after all. Perhaps, erring on the side of caution would be the correct course of action?

Meanwhile, tonight’s opponents, the New York Rangers have been quite active in the run up to the trade deadline and turn up in Montreal with 2 big time acquisitions in Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko. Kane has been held pointless in his first 2 games with the Blueshirts so he’s probably going to explode shortly. The Rangers are 4-5-1 in their last 10 and have lost their last 2 games but they are comfortably installed in third place in the Metropolitan division and should be taking on the Devils in the first round of the playoffs.

Samuel Montembeault will have the tough task to face the New Yorkers tonight and he’ll be hoping to help the Habs end their losing streak which now stands at 4 (although the last one came in a shootout).

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