In arguably their ugliest performance of the season to date, the Montreal Canadiens were manhandled by the Florida Panthers on Thursday night. It was a game that ideally, you can forget immediately and move forward. A game where fans were shown once again how far this team still has to go to complete their rebuild.
But it was also a game that ran concurrently with Canada’s World Junior outing, where Connor Bedard showed that the pain of losing could just be worth it.
Bedard has been magical at the tournament thus far, and while he didn’t need to be this good to solidify his draft ranking, I doubt that anyone in their right mind is penciling another name in that top spot.