The Canadian defender Alexander Carrier admits: “The lights have turned a fraction of a second, but it came back quickly” when he was flattened By the capital striker Tom Wilson last Sunday, in the fourth game of the Washington-Montréal series.
Fortunately, Carrier did not suffer a serious injury following this brutal contact, and above all, no concussion.
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“I was a little shaken by getting up and going to the bench, I was not at my top, we can say, but that is part of the game,” he admitted in an interview to “Jic” on Friday. I knew it was their match plan to be physical and to finish their defeat, it was up to me to know who was on the ice and protect myself in a better way. ”
From the outside, this defeat, which changed the pace of the series according to several, looked shattering. The relatives of Carrier, his spouse first, did not appreciate the sequence too much.
“She does not” trip “too much when I get plated like that, he admitted, smile in the corner. My family was in the tarrades too and obviously, they were worried, but if we had an extension during this match, I came back. ”
“It was more fear than harm, finally,” he then summed up.
Carrier also stressed that it is rather a half -failed defeat of Alex Ovechkin, earlier in this match, which caused the most damage.
“That’s more that disturbed me,” he revealed. After that, I had less mobility, I was less comfortable, that’s more that I found flat. I thought we had a good momentum and I knew I could help the team, but after that, I was a little more fearful. ”
Right to the heart
The tricolor was finally eliminated in five games by capital before having the opportunity to play a third at home in this series.
“We would have taken another match at the Bell Center, that’s certain,” said Carrier.
Proud to represent the CH, which he has been carrying the colors since December only, Carrier experienced a whole range of emotions in his first series in series in Montreal last Friday.
“It was incredible, if I am 100% honest, on the bench during the national anthem, the” motorcycle “went up a little, I had to resume my emotions,” he said.
Now he looks in front. Montreal is counting on a young and talented training that has gained braid during this series and the future of which remains promising.
Young Ivan Demidov, in particular, impressed him a lot when he arrived with the group when there were only two games left in the regular season.
“Especially his first match, in the first period, we all corporate on the bench,” he said. The confidence he has with the washer … he is 19 years old and the games he can make, honestly, is impressive. “
“To watch our digital advantage in series, in the last games, 19-year-old guys, 20, 21, it’s quite incredible to see these guys go, it’s exciting for next year.”
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