coaching staff, and he intends on emphasizing the physical nature of his game against the Canadiens."Being an intimidating team is something that we want to do," Gryba said. "You look at the size on our back end, with the exception of Karlsson everyone else is a big, strong type of player. So we'll play to our strengths and play physical and make it hard on their forwards."It's something we'll put an emphasis on, and hopefully that will turn into an advantage."The Canadiens lost a big chunk of their physical presence on the blue line when defenseman Alexei Emelin went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee April 6. The impact on play in their zone immediately was noticeable; Montreal lost six of its next eight games and allowed 29 goals in those six losses. However, the Canadiens attempted to replace some of it by calling up rookie defenseman Jarred Tinordi -- 6-foot-6, 205 pounds -- from the AHL to play in the final two games of the regular season.Montreal won both games, in Winnipeg and Toronto, and Tinordi totaled 11 hits."I was watching the games before and I could obviously tell the team was struggling a little bit, and I felt my game would fit in well with this team," Tinordi said. "My style was something that was maybe lacking a little bit."However, even with Tinordi,Nike Free 5.0 Pink, the Canadiens' defense can be categorized as a puck-moving and positionally sound group that is not particularly big or physical, led by what has become the top pairing of P.K. Subban and Andrei Markov.This group will have to deal with the Senators' physical forwards, who will try to make them pay the price every time they need to retrieve a puck in their end."It's wearing teams down," said Senators forward Chris Neil, who led the team and finished second in the League with 206 hits in the regular season. "That’s been my role in the NHL, I try to take pride in it and do it to the best of my ability. Over a seven-game series you want to play guys hard that play a lot of minutes for them. That's not just me, it's the whole team. If Subban's playing 30 minutes, we want to make it a hard 30 minutes for him. Same with Markov."The Senators have made a point of emphasizing how the Canadiens are the favorites in the series, how they finished second in the Eastern Conference and fourth in goals per game and that all the pressure is on them.However, it is the physical pressure the Senators have the ability to apply that just might allow them to topple the favorites and advance to the second round.
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