from Mike Boone of Hockey Inside/Out,

The current edition of the Montreal Canadiens is not crap.

Crap teams do not win the first nine games of their seasons.

Carey Price and Brendan Gallagher are injured, and their absence is keenly felt.

Mike Condon and Dustin Tokarski are not top-calibre goaltenders.

But the greater problem is the team’s scoring drought....

P.K. hasn’t scored in 27 games.

Tomas Plekanec is on a 20-game drought. DD has one goal in his last 17.

As was puzzlingly the case in Nashville, Plekanec and Desharnais each had more ice time than Galchenyuk against the Wild.

If there’s a logical explanation for this, it eludes me.

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