Canadiens vs. Maple Leafs Top Six Minutes: Less-than-stellar performance … Montembeault not included

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Pre-game

Hockey Night in Canada intro is The Power of Love that included a clip of Michael J. Fox in the crowd. Throwback to Back to the Future. This is already a good start.
Let’s keep the fun vibes rolling and beat the Leafs to get on last dig in before they get put out in the first round of the playoffs.
Yes. It’s a Saturday night Habs vs. Leafs matchup. Damn right I said let’s win.

First period

Evans gets the first penalty of the night for hooking Marner. Not that it wasn’t a hook but let’s see just how much the refs favour the Leafs tonight. Just out of curiosity.
Halfway through and the Habs have yet to register a shot on goal. We’re not going to serve them their lunch that way, fellas.
Monty’s on the case stopping Nylander’s close call before Barron gets called for giving him a high stick to the face. I’m on board with this tactic.
Marner opens the scoring on the power play. Time to start making Samsonov earn his paycheck.
Any second now.
There we go! Oh, sorry. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up. We finally got a shot on goal, not an actual goal.
Toronto heads to their third power play of the period. Forget the refs, I think we’re against ourselves tonight.
Tavare takes advantage of the man advantage this time.
Pezz takes on Simmonds. Pezz, my man. Wilson on Thursday night. Simmonds tonight. You’re really ready for this season to be over, hey?
Seems Monty is the only one who realizes there are still three more games to play before the season is over.

Second period

Gallagher gets hit on the foot with the puck. Well, that’s it for him for the final two games I suppose.
Kovacevic lets one rip and on shot number five we’re on the board! They are alive!
Suzuki picks up his 40th assist of the season. And made it through the season without getting injured. That’s an impressive feat in itself.
Nylander gets one past Monty and everyone knows it before Monty does.
Marner follows that up with his second of the night.
Can we just call it now? Is there some kind of rule that we have to play the next 35 minutes? There is? Well darn.
One inch to the left and it would have been 5-1 for the Leafs. Luckily Monty scooched over with that skate.

Third period

Our second power play chance of the night is a good opportunity to at least cut the lead in half. You know. Make Monty feel like you’re helping him out.
Tavares notches his second of the night.
St-Louis is throwing caution to the wind and going for a goaltender interference challenge!
Oh, that’s interference 100%. Or at least 50-50.
You know what really sucks? I used to like the song “You Make my Dreams” now it brings on slight rage.
Edmundson cross-checks Bunting, who takes full advantage and dives, and chaos ensues. Just nobody hit Evans in the head. That’s all I ask.
What do you call three Toronto Maples Leafs in the penalty box? Who cares? It’s just plain funny when they’re already up 5-1.
Oh, Matthews. I didn’t even realize you were playing. Way to make your appearance with five minutes left to add to the tally.
And again with three minutes remaining.
Enjoy it while you can, Leafs. #GoTampa (and we all know how I feel about the Lightning. They bring on more rage than “You Make My Dreams”).

3) Good for Johnny

2) Number 1!

1) The only results that matter at this point

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