If you told me a month ago that the Montreal Canadiens would beat the Toronto Maple Leafs by a score of 5-2, I’d have believed no part of that sentence. Scoring five goals in a game has been a rarity for this team at the best of times, and doing so while only giving up two against a high-octane team like Toronto? Impossible.
But they did it, and I would argue that a big part of keeping the Leafs to a deuce was the physicality the Habs brought to the game.
For a first example, take a look at this from Alexander Romanov.