Frank Corrado

That's just the reality of the way they play is they can pick apart your lineup.

The Florida Panthers never got exposed by Carolina.

But the Montreal Canadiens this year are going to get exposed by Carolina.

And you can see that...

it's still not a finished project with some of the, you know, maybe some of the stuff in the middle of the lineup.

And there, you know, there's still some young defensemen that need to come up and be a part of this team.

And one of those guys is going to be a right-handed shot and David Reinbacher.

So it's not a finished product.

And now we're, we're kind of seeing that.

And that, you know, has to do with Lane Hudson playing the right side with, to your point, like Struble's good and they've had some good moments together, but it's not perfect.

That's a comment you could make in September when you didn't know what this season was going to look like and you didn't know what the first couple rounds of the playoffs were going to look like.

If someone came up to you and I and said, I'm worried about the Habs because I think they're too small and I don't think their back end is mean enough and they're not going to scare anyone.

You know what I would say to you?

That's a valid comment, but let's see how it goes.

Let's see how it plays out.

And now we've seen how it plays out.

And...

I can't buy into that notion that they're too small because of the way things went against Tampa and the way things went against Buffalo.

Yeah, you get some good goaltending performances.

You get a power play night.