Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene has defended the teams Austrian Grand Prix tyre strategy after another disappointing race for the Italian outfit.Ferrari had been expected to challenge Mercedes in Spielberg and Kimi Raikkonen was running second in the early stages of the race. However, a curiously timed pit stop saw him lose track position to both Red Bulls and meant he had to settle for third behind Max Verstappen.Teammate Sebastian Vettel had started ninth after a gearbox penalty but led after 26 laps while in the latter stages of a long stint on super-soft tyres, only for his right rear to explode out of the blue on the start-finish straight. Arrivabene insists Ferrari made the right calls on strategy for both drivers.?[Vettel] was supposed to be out for a certain number of laps and we were asking to him and he was supposed to give feedback on tyres, Arrivabene said. We had no signs on telemetry, no sign from Seb, and no sign from the sensor of the tyre that suddenly the tyre was collapsing. Zero sign. The performance was okay.As per Sebastian, we felt that what Kimi gave us was good. We were continuing thinking that like its happened to [Daniel] Ricciardo, that the guys were going in and if not to overtake. In fact in the last lap in Turn 3, where he overtake Ricciardo, but we had the yellow flags, we were very lucky. Its ironic.Arrivabene says Ferrari was happy to sacrifice Raikkonens track position to Red Bull as it thought the team was going to stop again, and was sure it could have caught both cars in the instance it did not.We were thinking that Red Bull would stop again but the data that we have was quite precise. We took a risk because with our data Kimi was able to overtake Verstappen two laps before the race and we were nearly there.Concerning Seb, I think that without this tyre failure he would be very high in the podium, I dont know where but very high. Because we diverse the two strategies, they were different from one driver to the other.I dont think it was a missed opportunity. We followed totally our strategy and sometimes we cant talk to the driver because the rules are very clear but the drivers can give us feedback at certain points.Kimi decided to carry on like this and we went on one other option for strategy but without the yellow flags he wasnt going to overtake Verstappen. I think what we have to say is hes done a great race. Andrew Miller . -- Playing time has been limited for Maxim Tissot this season, so the Montreal Impact defender made the most of his first scoring opportunity on Saturday. Matt Wieters . 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MONTREAL -- The Montreal Canadiens own the NHLs best record, but they arent playing at peak performance ahead of battle with the long-time rival Boston Bruins on Tuesday at the Bell Centre.The Canadiens (10-1-1) won the teams first meeting on Oct. 22 in Boston, in the middle of their 9-0-1 run to start the season.Recently, however, Montreals play started to tail off. In addition to allowing 14 goals in the past two games -- a 10-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday and a 5-4 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday -- the Habs are also seeing their shots against rising considerably.Montreal has allowed at least 35 shots on goal in four straight -- including at least 40 in two of those games -- and more than 30 in each of the past five games.Despite the high volume of rubber his goaltenders are facing, Canadiens coach Michel Therrien isnt overly concerned.I remember last year, there was a stretch in December where we were outshooting our opponents 40, 42 to 20, 19, 17, and we were losing 3-(1) or 4-1, Therrien said. There was panic across the province. That year, we had a good start. Lately, weve been giving up more shots, but these are things that will correct themselves. Am I worried? No.Therrien acknowledged the team does have things to work on. And while he didnt specify, discipline and the penalty kill are certainly areas Montreal would like to get back on track. Penalized five times in each of the last three games, the Canadiens saw their penalty kill take a hit in their past two outings, allowing four power-play goals against the Blue Jackets and another two to Philadelphia.That potentially is good news for the Bruins, who fiinally got their power play clicking in their 4-0 win over the Sabres on Monday.dddddddddddd Boston (7-5-0) went 3-for-8 on the man advantage against Buffalo; the Bruins were 3-for-38 heading into that contest and had allowed as many short-handed goals as they had scored power-play goals. One of those short-handed tallies came in the previous meeting against Montreal.A little practice (in the morning skate) and obviously some pride in making sure that they were the difference-makers instead of ending up on the negative side, Bruins coach Claude Julien said of his power-play units following the win.The Bruins also are keeping opposing goaltenders busy of late. While averaging 27.5 shots on goal per game overall, Boston has picked it up recently, surpassing the 30-shot mark in four of its past five games.Julien wouldnt confirm who his starting goalie would be against the Canadiens. On Monday, Tuukka Rask started his fifth straight game since returning from injury, and he made 32 saves to blank the Sabres. Rask, who was out when Montreal played at Boston, is 5-15-3 with a 2.69 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage lifetime against the Canadiens.Its one of those games I dont think any player really wants to miss because its a big rivalry and theyre a great team, the netminder said when asked if he would play Tuesday, adding that the decision isnt up to him. Definitely dont want to miss that, but well see.If not Rask, rookie goaltender Zane McIntyre would be eyeing his first career win in his second NHL start. ' ' '