Habs Daily: Officiating Complaints, Gallagher Potential, Destiny

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Here are the Montreal Canadiens and NHL news items you may have missed on Wednesday.

Montreal Canadiens News

• If the Canadiens want to create more second-chance scoring opportunities, not to mention more chaos near the Sabres crease, they may want to consider reinserting veteran Brendan Gallagher into the lineup. [The Canadiens Could Use Another Solid Veteran In The Lineup]

• The Habs have managed to outshoot the Sabres in the first four games of the series, and they’ve also outscored them by a wide margin at 5v5. Special teams will play a key part in the final three games, but it’s safe to say the Habs are in a relatively healthy situation, despite the Game 4 loss. [Canadiens Hold Destiny In Their Hands Versus Sabres]

• Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff remarked there were some instances of Canadiens players falling a little too easy in Game 4. Canadiens head coach Martin St-Louis responded by asking if he was talking about the Sabres as well. In all honesty, the Canadiens may have gotten a few calls in their favour in Game 4, but it’s also fair to say the Sabres had the same discipline of a bunch of drunken pirates that finally broke into the rum store on a ship that is lost somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. High-sticking players every few shifts makes life very easy on the referees. There’s no debate involved, they were, for the most part, blatant and useless penalties.