Not.
While Detroit hockey fans can spend a couple hours of their Martin Luther King Day holiday watching the Red Wings play host to the Canadiens at the Joe Louis Arena, Montreal working stiffs and stiffettes will be on the job when the puck drops at 3 p.m.
Respect to MLK, but that doesn’t seem fair.
It’s the Canadiens first afternoon game since Dec. 4 – a Sunday – in Los Angeles, when Andrew Shaw scored in the third period to tie the game at 4-4 and Paul Byron beat Peter Budaj to win the Shootout.