Despite new, unfamiliar variables, Habs undaunted by top-seeded Golden Knights

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From the Manitoba prairie to the Mojave Desert, from largely empty arenas to a capacity crowd: not a lot about Monday's Stanley Cup semifinal opener in Las Vegas will be familiar to the Montreal Canadiens.

That includes the Vegas Golden Knights themselves, a team the Canadiens have yet to face in the 2020-21 season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which until now kept all but one of Canada's teams north of the partially closed border.

While Canadians are only just beginning to emerge from their forced hibernation -- Ontario only began allowing patios and non-essential businesses to reopen Friday -- Vegas is looking like its old self, the streets and blackjack tables jammed with tourists utterly unfazed by a week-long heat wave expected to top 45 C."We know what type of team that we are, we know how we have to play to have success," forward Brendan Gallagher told a news conference Sunday in Vegas.

Canadiens interim coach Dominique Ducharme wasn't sounding at all cowed Sunday by the challenge that lies ahead."You've got to go back to the thing that you do well, and I think we've played some pretty complete games ... you've got to go back to your strengths and controlling what you can control. That's our main focus.

Price will have his hands full trying to outshine Knights netminder Marc-Andre Fleury, a born-and-bred Quebecer whose only obstacle to another berth in the final will be the team he idolized as a boy.

 

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