Well that was a pleasant way to start!
The story of the game was both teams exchanging some form of boneheaded penalty, compounding it with another dumb penalty, and the ensuing 5 on 3 being kind of fruitless (except for one but we’ll get there.). And period one didn’t necessarily change anything about it. Thankfully, Boston took near complete control of the period and pelted the Habs with shots. They finished the period with a shot lead, 11-7, but no score.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the way this period started for the B’s that things went very off the rails, with the first goal of the game being an Alex Galchenyuk tip from right in front of Subban, giving the Habs a 1-0 lead, then followed up with the defense temporarily imploding, with Jeremy Grigoire crashing the net, getting a weird bounce, then slapping it in.