Julien: 'We need to have another week like that'

RALEIGH - Carey Price helped his club hang onto the lead most of the game.

The Habs goaltender was impenetrable in the first period, turning aside all 21 shots he faced to keep his team in the game.
Paul Byron finally rewarded his goaltender by scoring the game's first goal with just 5:02 to go after the first 20, sending the Canadiens to the room with a 1-0 lead.

The rhythm of the contest changed in the second. The Canadiens tightened their defensive game so much that Carolina's first shot of the period came at the 14:34 mark. The 'Canes only tested Price four times in the second, but the Habs couldn't get anything else by Carolina backstop Curtis McElhinney.
According to the Habs' head coach, Price gave the Canadiens a legitimate chance to win it, but fatigue definitely started to set in among his troops starting in that middle frame.
"We're just finishing a stretch of four games in six days and we got seven points out of eight. We have to see that too. We could see starting in the middle of the second period that we started to feel tired. It showed," described Claude Julien. "Carey gave us a chance with his performance tonight. We tried to hang on, but unfortunately, we only managed to come away with one point."
Captain Shea Weber was disappointed his team wasn't able to reward his good friend, Price, with the second point in recognition of his efforts.
"We got one point. I think for Price, it would have been nice to reward him with the two points; he played on his head," shared Weber. "He played well for us. It is a big point, though."

Price was once again unflappable in the third, stopping breakaways by both Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen.
In the end, it would be a shot that went off Jordie Benn that would beat Price with just 5:39 to go in regulation before Andrei Svechnikov got the Hurricanes the win in overtime.
The players agreed that their energy level became a factor as the game went on.
"We got our legs under us. I don't want to make excuses, but we were playing our third game in four nights and with the travel and getting in late... It just took us a bit to get our legs going, and we had a great second period," recounted Andrew Shaw. "And then, we don't give them much and they get a shot that gets through and hits a leg and finds its way in."
Julien just hopes that his team can bring the same kind of effort from their recent stretch into their remaining games.
"To be honest, we have to have another week like that. That starts with this Tuesday against Florida to have another good week. We're taking it one game at a time. That's what's helping us right now," expressed the veteran bench boss. "The way we're disappointed tonight, that shows there's character in the locker room. The guys will be ready to roll up their sleeves and play on Tuesday."
The Canadiens will be back at the Bell Centre on Tuesday to welcome the Florida Panthers.