So far these playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens have lost 3 games in OT: Dach and Bolduc have been on the ice for all three OT goals against, and Kapanen has been on the ice for two.

Arpon Basu of the Athletic touches on this further in his latest article: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7304067/2026/05/24/canadiens-martin-st-louis-nhl-playoffs/ ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Much like Suzuki before him, St. Louis managed to get through his postgame news conference in a generally positive way, right until the final question. The final question to Suzuki about his matchup and the final question to St. Louis was asked by Guillaume Lefrançois of La Presse. The question to St. Louis was whether he was rolling his lines in anticipation of a long overtime. “I don’t know, but why are you asking me that?” St. Louis responded. To which Lefrançois correctly pointed out, St. Louis had his fourth line of Oliver Kapanen, Zack Bolduc and Kirby Dach on the ice when Ehlers scored the overtime winner. “Yes,” St. Louis responded, “they were there.” With that, St. Louis got up and left the news conference. He was not happy. But it was a fair question, not only because the fourth line got scored on, but also because of the recent history of the fourth line getting scored on in key situations. submitted by /u/likeslululemon [link] [comments]