After some truly terrible games of late, the Canadiens came to play for this one, giving every bit as good as they got against the hard hitting, hard scoring Ducks.
Michael McCarron, Phillip Danault, and Stefan Matteau had a consistently strong game, right from puck drop, which quickly led to a Ducks penalty in the offensive zone.
After a cautiously optimistic shift or two on the powerplay, the Ducks' league-best penalty kill kept the Habs backing into their own zone, and there were a few tense moments where it looked like the Habs were teetering on the edge of another collapse.