Montreal Canadiens focused on moving forward as injury bug hits for another season

Montreal Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis isn’t dwelling on the injuries to his lineup despite the nightmare he dealt with last season.

The Canadiens led the league in man-games lost with 751, according to mangameslost.com. This season they’re off to a rough start with second-line centre Kirby Dach already out for the season with ACL and MCL tears in his right knee and key defenceman Kaiden Guhle day-to-day with an upper-body injury.

St. Louis says he has confidence that his team’s depth can withstand the absences.

“We move forward, we don’t stop what we’re doing because we lost a player,” said St. Louis on Thursday at the Canadiens’ practice facility.