The Montreal Canadiens put on a show in their final game of the 2021-22 season, scoring 10 goals in a rout of the Florida Panthers. It was definitely not the same configuration of those Panthers that bested every team in the Eastern Conference this season, but still an impressive result for the team that finished dead last.
And as the Bell Centre faithful honoured the past with a Guy chant following the 10th goal, the future was on full display through Cole Caufield’s first career hat trick.
If any doubt remained that he is the future of the Montreal Canadiens, he erased it with those three goals on Friday night.