The Montreal Canadiens — if you can even call them that — were presented with an unenviable task on New Year’s day. Decimated by injuries and the COVID protocol, they were in the sunshine state to face the Florida Panthers, who currently sit second in the Atlantic Division, and were coming off a 9-3 destruction of the Tampa Bay Lightning two days prior. The scene was set for the Habs to get their ugliest game of 2022 out of the way extremely early in the year.
Welcome to your Bottom Six Minutes, for a game that really should not have happened at all.