The Montreal Canadiens may have lost on Saturday, but the mood around the surging team hardly appeared to take a hit after a hard-fought battle on short rest.
The Canadiens fell 2-1 in a shootout to the stingy Dallas Stars, fighting all night long in a tight-checking game against a team that won its seventh in a row.
This after playing Friday in Washington — a 3-2 overtime win over the Capitals — while the Stars benefited from a night off.
“I liked our game, I had no passengers,” Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis said. “All the guys are involved, we played a mature game on a back-to-back. Maybe we didn’t have our legs early, but we made enough actions to deserve two points tonight, we just didn’t get them.
“It’s a big point.”
Montreal (20-18-4) lost for only the third time in 12 games, climbing from the Eastern Conference basement into the …