On the second night of their back-to-back weekend adventure, the Montreal Canadiens travelled to the glorious metropolis that is Pittsburgh to face the city’s pride and joy; the Penguins. The team with the Southern hemisphere flappy bird on their crest were sitting in the second of two wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference while the Canadiens were.... Well, not as close to a playoff berth.
With Chris Wideman out of the lineup due to an upper-body injury, head coach Dominique Ducharme went back to displaying 12 forwards and six defencemen for Saturday. This put Michael Pezzetta back into play for the first time since the Habs last played Pittburgh, nine days prior.