November 21st, 2003
Montreal does not get a night off and now travel to Michigan to meet with the (13-9-1) Detroit Red Wings. With back to back nights, Montreal will start G
Martin King.
Montreal gets on the board first with LW
Joey Mariani sending LW
David Wass in alone and he puts on a nice deke to beat the Red Wings netminder at 16:58 with his 6th goal of the year. Montreal welcome back LD
Etienne Daneau with his 2nd game back in the Habs line up and he beats the Detroit goalie with his 1st of the year at 17:47 and its 2-0 Montreal. Montreal leads after the 1st 2-0 despite Detroit out shooting Montreal 12-7.
Montreal goes up 3-0 when C
Dean Casey hits LW
Emile Boudreau with an off balance pass and
Boudreau gets his 8th of the year at 1:44 of the 2nd. LW
Emile Boudreau gets his 2nd of the game and 9th of the year from another C
Dean Casey feed at 4:57 and it is now 4-0 Montreal. After killing penalty, Montreal clearly has all the momentum with the shots now 18-16 for Montreal with just over 3 minutes left in the period. The shots end up 19-18 for Montreal and the Canadiens will start the 3rd with a short 27 second PP.
Montreal holds on in the 3rd period as the Red Wings could not solve G
Martin King as he made 30 saves in a 4-0 win. The finals shots were 30-28 in favour of Detroit.
Montreal 4 Detroit 0
Montreal Canadiens G
Martin King was named the 1st star with his 30 save shut out. The 24 year old is now 3-1-1 with 3 shut outs, a 1.14 GAA and a .952 SV% in 7 games. King is in his 4th year as the Canadiens back up since the league was formed.
The Montreal Canadiens have recalled RW
Li Wei from the IR today. The 21 year has been out since October 5th with a broken hand. The Canadiens will demote F
Aribert Senf to the AHL, the 27 year old has 1 goals and 2 points in 14 games this year.
Boston Bruins RW
Ken Patterson had a goal in a 1-1 tie with the Red Wings. The 27 year old now has 8 goals and 20 points with 27 PIMs and a +5 rating in 23 games. Patterson has been with the Bruins since the league was formed in 2000.