Carey Price returned to the bench, backing-up Antti Niemi for this one, and that’s about all there is to talk about. While we assume the Habs players weren’t actively involved in the tank job on Monday night, based on watching this game you could probably make a decent argument that they were.

It was a second period for the ages, and not in a good way for the Montreal Canadiens. For the second consecutive encounter the Maple Leafs embarrassed the Habs. It was Tomas Plekanec’s first game against the only team he’d ever known in his NHL career prior to these last couple weeks and some of the Canadiens players chose to honour the long-time Hab by saluting his trademark style.