Caufield
Montreal’s first 50-goal scorer in 36 seasons will get it carried out in Recreation 7. Caufield scored 51 targets and was the primary participant in group Canadiens to interrupt the 50-goal plateau since Stephane Richer in 1989-90. If anybody will give you an enormous objective, chances are high Caufield scores it, serving to the Canadiens to the convention closing. — Derek Van Diest, workers author
Rasmus Dahlin, Sabres
How do you prime a five-point efficiency (one objective, 4 assists) in Recreation 6? You are the one who sends your group to the Jap Convention Remaining. That is what I am seeing with Dahlin, a defenseman who has been an amazing story all season. His nice play is a part of it, however he is additionally been there for his fiancée, Carolina Matovac, who went via troublesome well being points, spent a number of weeks on life assist after experiencing coronary heart failure and acquired a coronary heart transplant that required months of hospitalization and rehab. He is dealt with all of it so nicely. Now it is time to put a cap on this sequence. — Tracey Myers, workers author
Ivan Demidov, Canadiens
After not scoring a objective within the first 16 playoff video games of his NHL profession, the 20-year-old rookie ahead has scored in every of the previous two and is discovering his confidence on offense. Demidov has no less than one level in 5 of the primary six video games of the sequence (two targets, 4 assists) after he had only one level, an help in Recreation 1, in seven video games in opposition to the Tampa Bay Lightning within the first spherical. He has been constructing his recreation because the playoffs have progressed and Recreation 7 shall be his second. — Tom Gulitti, senior author