Playoffs
St. Louis Misses Canadiens Practice for Personal Reasons Before Game 1
The Canadiens were on the ice preparing for Game 1 in Carolina, but Martin St-Louis was not there. Any time a coach is absent this close to the first puck drop, the rumor mill starts running faster than the actual facts. The club says the reason is personal, which is all that matters for the moment, but the optics still land hard in a playoff setting. Montreal now has to manage both the series prep and the noise that comes with a missing head coach.
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