Canadiens @ Maple Leafs Top Six Minutes: Battle of the Bubble

For our new readers and members, the Top Six Minutes is a continuation of the discussion in the game thread. We try to keep it light and entertaining. Full recaps are up the morning after every game.

Ok Habs, I really need you to win, or certain dear friends of mine are never going to let me live this down.

First Period

• Jesperi and Kasperi. This is gonna be a fun night!
• The Habs defense tonight makes me want to weep. And not the good kind of weeping.
• At least Lehkonen has an A, which is enough to cheer anyone up.
• This is gonna be not fun. On the other hand, Nick Suzuki is definitely fun.
• Oh no.
• ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅRTAAAAANNNNN!!!!!! Finns got Finnish. #PrinceArtturi (At what point does Prince Artturi become King Artturi? Asking for a friend.)
• Thank you Nemo.
• This is very not the way I expected this game to go....
• le sigh Oh hey. It stood!!
• I'm so glad they've put all the Finns together on this power play.
• Kotkaniemi and Suzuki have a dueling goalposts thing going on, apparently.
• Mango with his best preseason outing so far. (For those of you who are unfamiliar, Mango is Nikita Scherbak.)/

Second Period

• Look. The Habs are gonna be bad. But at least early indications are that they'll be entertaining and bad this season.
• God. You could feel that Kapanen goal coming from a mile away.
• Ouellett strikes again. That was very nice.
• OMG CHARLES. (Also, GOALIE POINT!!!) That spin move was so good.
• Simon Despres giving everyone a heart attack when he lay on the ice for a century.
• Prince Artturi has been at the right place at the right time an awful lot tonight!!!!!!!
• Oh Byron...
• Oh lord... this 5-on-3 is gonna end well...
• Oh hey. It went just fine.
• Kotkaniemi is looking so good.
• Sorry the second period was so bland...I was too busy watching the Hudon goal on repeat./

Third Period

• Get Prince Artturi a hattie. Get Ouellet a hattie! All the hatties.
• Speaking of getting people goals, get Suzuki one please.
• Chaput had a really pretty look there. Sparks got that one.
• Nemo making more good saves.
• This is definitely one of the Leafs’ best shifts since the first period. Kapanen almost got another.
• OH GOD. NOT HUDON.
• Oh. He seems to be ok. Everyone stand down.
• Lehk rings the post...
• Some very determined Habs fans are olé-ing in Toronto.
• Well. That was fun.
• HABS WIN 5-1!!!!!/

Highlight of the Game

A spinning beauty from Charles Hudon. Niemi got an assist too.

Charles Hudon hits Andreas Borgman with a Madden-esque spin move and scores to make it 4-1 #Habs pic.twitter.com/3UhYFPbDw5

— Scott Matla (@scottmatla) September 25, 2018