An unusual incident aboard the Canadiens' plane is finally coming to light
Alexandre Carrier and Martin St-Louis are heading to Raleigh with a Canadiens room that still sounds alive.
That is not what people expected after Wednesday night.
Montreal is down 3-1 in the series and coming off another hard loss at the Bell Centre, the kind of game that usually leaves a team dragging itself onto the plane.
Instead, the mood on the flight to Carolina was the opposite.
Carrier said the energy was high, the players were relaxed, and the group was playing cards and video games on the way to Raleigh.
That detail matters more than it looks.
A team that has mentally cracked does not sound like that the day before a road elimination game. A team that still believes usually does. That second sentence is an inference based on Carrier's description of the flight.
Carrier went even further.
He said the group had turned the page and was excited to arrive together, have a team dinner, and even play some ping-pong before Game 5. Zachary Bolduc also joked that the ping-pong series is tied 1-1.
«Played some cards, played some video games..I really liked the energy today. I think we turned the page. We're excited to get here together on the road, have a team dinner, play some ping pong..»
Bolduc notes the ping pong series is tied 1-1. A big game, before the big game! "
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New details are emerging about a strange incident on the Canadiens' flight
That is the real takeaway here.
From the outside, it would have been easy to assume Montreal was flying into Carolina deflated, especially after the demoralizing images on the bench Wednesday night. The file makes clear this atmosphere felt completely different.
And St-Louis needs that.
The Canadiens do not have room for self-pity now. They need a road-game mindset, clean details, and enough emotion to push this series back to Montreal for Game 6. The first sentence is an inference based on Montreal trailing 3-1.
History is not exactly on their side.
The report notes Montreal has come back from a 3-1 series deficit only once in playoff history, and it points to the 2000 Devils as the only team to pull off that kind of climb in this context, with Claude Lemieux in the lineup.
So no, this is still a brutal spot.
But the best thing the Canadiens could control before Game 5 was their own pulse, and by the sound of it, they got that part right.
Carrier's comments do not win a game.
They do tell fans one important thing.
This room is not flying into Carolina scared.
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YESTERDAY
MAY 27, 2026
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Nikolaj Ehlers | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jordan Staal | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Logan Stankoven | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Andrei Svechnikov | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jackson Blake | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jalen Chatfield | - | 1 | 1 | |
| K'Andre Miller | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Frederik Andersen | - | - | - | |
| Josh Anderson | - | - | - | |
| Zachary Bolduc | - | - | - | |
| Alexandre Carrier | - | - | - | |
| William Carrier | - | - | - | |
| Cole Caufield | - | - | - | |
| Kirby Dach | - | - | - | |
| Phillip Danault | - | - | - | |
| Ivan Demidov | - | - | - | |
| Jakub Dobes | - | - | - | |
| Noah Dobson | - | - | - | |
| COMPLETE STATS | ||||