The Montreal Gazette asserts one of the interesting side angles to the Habs-Sens matchup is that both teams have young, star defencemen. P.K. Subban, 23, is in the running for this year's Norris Trophy, which the 22-year-old Karlsson won last year.
The Canadiens rely on Subban to do a lot of good things for the team and expect him to be big in a lot of situations, Habs blueliner Josh Gorges said.
"I'm sure Ottawa expects the same thing out of Karlsson," Gorges added. "When you're as talented as those players are it comes with a lot of responsibility. It will be exciting to see both talented players kind of go at it.
"(Karlsson's) ability to skate, to make plays, to read situations, it's unbelievable. He's a guy that we're going to have to focus on.
"He's a tough guy to play against because you want to finish your checks on him because you don't want him jumping into the play. But he's pretty elusive out there. … He's got a lot of similarities to a guy like a Scott Niedermayer, who every game you would play you would say, 'we got to finish our checks on this guy.' But it's almost impossible. I mean, they're such good skaters.
"So we'll have to be focused on containing him, getting the puck out of his hands and things like that. Try to slow him down as much as we can."
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