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Canadiens vs. Jets

Thursday at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre, 8 p.m., SNE, RDS, TSN Radio 690

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Let Carey do it: One complaint about the Canadiens this season has been a tendency to rely on goaltender Carey Price, but they got burned Tuesday night in Nashville because defenceman P.K. Subban didn’t leave the game in Price’s hands. Subban lost control of the puck at the blue line in overtime and compounded his error by hauling down the Predators’ Filip Forsberg. The result was a Nashville power play and Forsberg scored for a 3-2 win. The point allowed the Canadiens to reach the 100-point mark, but their lead over the second-place Tampa Bay Lightning in the Atlantic Division was reduced to one point.

The other goalie: Price has been the dominant goaltender in the NHL this season, leading the league in wins (40), goals-against average (1.88), save percentage (. 937) and shutouts (nine), but he will get the night off in Winnipeg as Dustin Tokarski gets the start. Tokarski has a 6-5-3 record this season with a 2.66 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. The hottest goaltender going into this game is Ondrej Pavelec, who has the Jets thinking of their first playoff berth since the franchise moved to Winnipeg. Pavelec was the NHL’s first star last week and has won his last five starts, allowing only five goals in that stretch.