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The Canadiens put Cole Caufield in a position to succeed Share this story Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports Cole Caufield’s first performance with the Montreal Canadiens was messy but successful. Pretty much what you could expect for a 20-year-old making his NHL debut in the middle of a playoff race. My concern with sending Caufield on the ice was not that he wouldn’t survive the match-up or that it would affect his long-term confidence. It was simply a matter of comfort. I have said it numerous times: The Canadiens play a completely different system than the Wisconsin Badgers, the prospect’s college team. Wisconsin used a ton of stretch breakouts; they opened up the ice, while Montreal approaches the game as a tight, aggressive five-man group. They pinch on the walls, breakout from the walls, and reload quicker above the puck. A lot of Caufield’s first instincts on the ice, the habits he formed in his two years of college hockey are wrong inside the Habs system. He is a sm

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