The regular season is finally upon us, as the Montreal Canadiens kicked things off at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night. Winless in eight pre-season games, it seemed a foregone conclusion that they’d drop their home opener, but they rallied from two separate one-goal deficits and took the win 4-3 in regulation.
As I opined after the final pre-season loss this past Saturday, Cole Caufield is scoring 40 goals this season, and I couldn’t have asked for a better start than what he pulled off against Toronto.
It was more of the same stuff we saw in the pre-season, as he got the Habs on the board to erase the first one-goal deficit early in the second period.