The Montreal Canadiens were focused on Thursday night's tilt, as demonstrated by their comments after practice Wednesday.

"It's always nice when you can get the first goal but we've got to focus on playing 60 minutes, a full hockey game and continue to work and stick together. Things are going to happen, we're going to have adversity here and there but we're going to have to keep playing our game," said PK Subban.

"If you take a couple of shifts off in the playoffs the other team is going to burn you, it happens really quick," said Ryan White. "We can't have any lapses. We've got to get back to our game."

The coach didn't tip his hand concerning who'd be riding the playoff pine and who'd be skating for glory.

"We haven't decided on our roster, we'll decide (Friday) who we're going to go with," said Jacques Martin.