January 3rd, 1984
Montreal Canadiens (24-20-3) at St Louis Blues (30-12-5)
The Canadiens will have to dust themselves off and get ready for another tough opponent tonight. Montreal faced the Blues once this season in Montreal winning 2-1. Montreal is currently in 6th in the East with 51 points, 9 back of the East leading Blue Jackets. Montreal ranks 18th in the NHL with 30 shots per game. They rank 5th in the NHL by giving up 27 shots per game.
Montreal RW
Eric McFatridge is a 21 year old from Coquitlam, BC. The two way forward is a strong defensive player that is currently playing on the 3rd line as a up and down winger and plays a physical punishing forward role. McFatridge was the Canadiens 204th overall pick in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He made his NHL debut on January 11th, 1983. This season he has 6 goals and 13 points with 28 PIMs in 47 games. For his career in 79 NHL games he has 8 goals and 18 points with 40 PIMs.
The Blues are currently 1st in the West with 65 points, 3 points ahead of the 2nd place Jets. The Blues are 4th in the NHL with 32 shots per game, they rank 2nd in the NHL by giving up only 26 shots per game.
The announcers are going to have a bit of a nightmare as the goalies will be
Hester vs Nestor. St Louis will start G
Christopher Hester, he has 6 wins with a 2.27 GAA and .913 save % in 10 games. Last year he never played professional hockey. Montreal will start G
Wilf Nestor, he has 20 wins with a 2.20 GAA and a .920 save % in 38 games.
Montreal goes up 1-0 at 10:52 of the 1st period when RW
Eric McFatridge gets his 7th of the season. Montreal is now up 2-0 at 19:38 when RD
Jakub Svec gets his 6th of the year while on a 4 on 4. Montreal are up 2-0 despite getting out shot 12-6. D
Tyler Duclos and Blue star
Ed Larkin got into a fight at 8:07 of the period, that was a good trade off for Montreal.
Montreal's LW
Quincy Kaminsky makes it 3-0 at 0:45 of the 2nd period with his 7th of the season again on the same 4 on 4. Montreal continues to put goals past Hester, C
Riley Callander makes it 4-0 at 3:22 with his 16th of the year. Another bonus for Montreal was Blues C
Jeffery Lang had a 10 minute misconduct, he has 21 goals for the Blues this year. The shots were 6-6 in the 2nd period.
Montreal goes up 5-0 on just their 15th shot as C
Riley Callander gets his 2nd of the night, 17th of the season at 3:55 of the 3rd on the PP. The Blues get on the board and spoil
Nestor's shut out bid, C
Lawrence Janotka gets his 5th of the year on the PP at 9:06. The shots were 11-8 in the 3rd favoring Montreal, but St Louis out shot Montreal 26-23 on the night. Montreal was 2 for 9 on the PP while the Blues were 1 for 5.
Montreal's C
Riley Callander was the 1st star with 2 goals and an assist. The 28 year old now has 17 goals and 33 points with 58 PIMs in 48 games.
Montreal 5 St Louis 1

Around the NHL..........
Dallas Stars RW
Frantisek Pustejovsky had a goal and 3 assists in a 5-1 win over the Islanders. The 24 year old now has 26 goals and 69 points with 26 PIMs in 47 games. Pustejovsky was the 1982 Art Ross Trophy Winner.
Nashville Predators C
Jozsef Szucs had a goal and 3 assists in a 7-0 win over the Hurricanes. The 29 year old now has 22 goals and 49 points with 34 PIMs in 48 games. Szucs won the Ted Lindsay Trophy and the Hart Trophy in 1983.
Anaheim Ducks LW
William Frow had 2 assists in a 3-1 win over the Sharks. The 21 year old now has 15 goals and 47 points with 29 PIMs in 47 games. Frow was the Ducks 7th overall pick in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft.
Arizona Coyotes LW
Breyden Henley had 2 assists in a 3-2 win over the Flames. The 20 year old now has 18 goals and 49 points with 18 PIMs in 47 games. Henley was the Coyotes 36th overall pick in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft.
The NHL has announced its rosters for the
1984 All-Star Game. Selected from Montreal were:
C Riley Callander
The Montreal Canadiens have announced that they have traded LD
Zbyenk Hubacek to the Columbus Blue Jackets for RD
Joey Lachance and a
1984 4th round Draft Pick. The 19 year old
Hubacek was Montreal;s 40th overall pick in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. He has played 26 games with the St John's IceCaps of the AHL and had 1 goal with 8 points and 26 PIMs. Montreal are getting 21 year old
Joey Lachance. so far this season he has 6 goals and 22 points with 46 PIMs in 46 games. He was the Blue Jackets 52nd overall pick in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. In 3 seasons with Columbus he had 21 goals and 80 points with 151 PIMs in 210 NHL games. To make room for
Lachance on the Canadiens roster, Montrel sent down LD
Logan Hajt, he had 0 goals and 0 points with 2 PIMs in 4 games.