from Eric Engels of Sportsnet,

It won’t take much more of this for Marc Bergevin to realize his Montreal Canadiens don’t have what it takes to be a playoff team....

It has to be most disconcerting for Bergevin to see that the Canadiens’ top players aren’t generating the chances needed to bust out offensively....

Captain Max Pacioretty, who came into the game with zero goals in his last 10 and one in his last 19, recorded one measly shot on net. Second leading goal scorer Paul Byron failed to record one. And Tomas Plekanec, who came into the action with one goal in his last 23 games, didn’t even register an attempt.

You know Jonathan Drouin, playing against his former team for the first time, wanted this one badly. But he never got close enough to Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy to make a difference.

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