Rock bottom.

The Montreal Canadiens have lost a 5th game in a row, this time 5-2 to the New-Jersey Devils at East Rutherford.

Sheldon Souray and Sergei Samsonov scored for Montreal.
Brian Rafalski scored twice, Zach Parise, Patrick Elias and Sergei Brylin in an empty net for New-Jersey.

Not only the Habs have lost once again, they also lost their starting goaltender Christobal Huet during the game. Huet injured himself on the 3rd New-Jersey goal in the 2nd period. His case will be evaluated tomorrow morning by the team doctors at the return of the team in Montreal. The Habs now have a lot of key players injuried: Kovalev, Rivet, Huet and Johnson.

A very difficult situation for the team that slid from 4th place to 8th in a matter of two weeks. A playoff berth will be very difficult to obtain if no changes are made until the trade deadline of February 27th.