Canadiens weekly notebook: Jake Allen meant different things to different goalies

It is fascinating to see how the same player, with the same attributes, one who was so universally admired and loved by his peers, can mean such different things to two of his teammates. So there were still positives in that game I could have progressed on.” The combination of Montembeault’s contract extension and Primeau’s improved play and both of their ages better aligning with the Canadiens’ future core made Allen the odd man out despite having a year left on his contract. But I want to stay here, I find we’re going in the right direction.” The power play as a metaphor for the rebuild Martin St. Louis was talking about the power play giving up costly short-handed goals in back-to-back games in Florida last week and noted how if, at the beginning of the season, he had been told they would be giving up short-handed goals at such a high rate but the power play looked the way it did now, he would take it. So for us, it’s to keep evolving.” Everything St. Louis said about the power play there could easily be applied to the Canadiens’ rebuild process as a whole. Finally, it was crowdsourced and determined “someone who brings people together” was the way to say the word in English, which left St. Louis somewhat dissatisfied because he doesn’t like using several words to express what one word means in the other language.