Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Artturi Lehkonen and Anthony Mantha showed the value of this cinematic advice as they provided a bit of late excitement to an otherwise sleepy Tuesday evening at the Centre Bell.
On the heels of their emotional weekend sweep of the Ottawa Senators, the Canadiens dropped an anticlimactic 2-1 overtime tilt to the visiting Detroit Red Wings.
Al Montoya, getting the start after Price’s back-to-back weekend duty, was up against it from the start. The Habs found themselves shorthanded within the first minute of the first period, and for the first time in several weeks the penalty kill looked completely ineffective.