Last night’s game ended on one of the most difficult notes. All through the game I was enjoying the Montreal Canadiens’ style of play, trying to think of pithy opening lines to this article. But after the hit on Jake Evans, all I can come up with is this:
This just sucks.
In hindsight, Mark Scheifele should have been given a more stiff sentence when he cross-checked Ben Chiarot in the face while Chiarot was on the ice with 6:48 left on the clock in the third period. Maybe that all-important yet arbitrarily enforced code should have come into play.