The Montreal Canadiens are outside the NHL playoffs.
Montreal fell 4-1 to Washington’s capitals in game 5 of his first round series on Wednesday, losing the best confrontation in five games.
Washington will face Carolina’s hurricanes in the second round, while Montreal becomes the second team knocked out of the postseason.
The Canadiens returned unexpectedly to the playoffs for the first time since 2021, marking a change for the historical franchise that began its first reconstruction after a disastrous beginning of the 2021-22 season.
Montreal lived near the NHL basement for three years and was not a popular preseason team to reach the playoffs.
The Canadians left the door and occupied the 31st position at the NHL on December 1, more than a quarter of the road during the season.
A hot streak during the holiday season was one of the many inflection points in a roller coast campaign.
The Canadians had problems again at the end of January and early February to be left behind in the Playoffs race, but they recovered with a 15-5-6 race after the rest of the 4 nations in a stretch full of dramatic returns.
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Montreal captured the second and final, wild card at the Eastern Conference with a 4-2 victory over Carolina in his last game of the regular season. The confrontation caught so much attention that the Federal Federal Elections Debate in French had to reschedule two hours earlier than planned.
Captain Nick Suzuki led the way with 89 points, most of a Canadien since 1995-96, while Calder Trophy Lane Hutson’s favorite established franchise records for a rookie defense.
Sam Montembeault settled as a solid goalkeeper number 1, and veterans Josh Anderson and Brendan Gallagher had their best seasons in years, among other key performances in a special season.
The youngest team to reach the playoffs, the Canadiens also qualified with the least number of points (91) and the worst goal differential (-20).
After two months of playing hockey similar to playoffs to climb the classification, wear began to affect a team of physical capital.
Washington, better sown, won the 1 and 2 games at home before the victory of the 3 Electric de Montreal game in the first playoff game with tickets exhausted in the Bell Center since 2017. The capitals then obtained the first victory of the series in game 4 on Sunday.
Montembeault lost games 4 and 5 after leaving half the game 3 with an injury at the bottom of the body, and the rookie goalkeeper Jakub Dobes took over the fold. The Canadians also played without the extreme Patrik Laine (upper part of the body) from game 3 onwards, while several other players took care of injuries.
