Dominique Ducharme’s team played a near tactical perfect game Friday night as the Montreal Canadiens held on to a 1-0 win in Game 2 and took a 2-0 series lead back to Montreal.
This while rolling four forward lines, with Phillip Danault, Nick Suzuki and Joel Armia being the only forwards playing over 16 minutes. However, Ducharme kept playing his top four defenders around the 25-minute mark, leaving the bottom two players, Erik Gustafsson and Brett Kulak, around the 10-minute mark. This is something Ducharme started in the fifth game against Toronto and he has continued the same way over the last five games.