With a couple of old familiar faces on both teams before the Christmas break, the Montreal Canadiens also got one of their own back in the lineup, as Victor Mete made his return.
The game got off to an absolutely wild start. Tomas Tatar played the early hero as the Winnipeg Jets flew in, and caused absolute chaos around an open net before Tatar swept the puck away from danger. Two of the aforementioned familiar faces, Nathan Beaulieu and Joel Armia, got the next shots as the start of the game may as well have been played to the Benny Hill theme.