Max Pacioretty scores four goals as Canadiens rout Avalanche 10-1
MONTREAL — The memory of their own lopsided loss was too fresh in the Montreal Canadiens’ minds for them to get too excited about laying a one-sided beating on the Colorado Avalanche.
Paced by captain Max Pacioretty’s first career four-goal game, the Canadiens routed Colorado 10-1 in their biggest offensive output at home since moving into the Bell Centre in 1996.
That was weighed against a 10-0 beating they took Nov. 4 in Columbus.
“We went through the same thing earlier this year and we know that one game doesn’t make our club,” said Pacioretty. “They obviously didn’t show their best, just like we didn’t in our game in Columbus.