Tomas Plekanec is a Montreal Canadien through and through, even with that bizarre stint in Toronto where he was forced to shave his goatee and pull on a Maple Leafs sweater. So when he came back to his original team this off-season with just two games to go until he hit 1000 played in the NHL, it all made sense.
His 1000th game was going to be a great night regardless of how it went. Plekanec was always going to get the adoration from the Bell Centre faithful that he fully deserved. He played well above his paygrade for so long; a top-line centre who drove Sidney Crosby utterly insane, and named one of Brad Marchand’s most hated opponents.