You would be hard pressed to go through the game tape from last season and find clips of the Montreal Canadiens working as hard and efficiently as they hard did against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday.
It was only one game, and it might be difficult to match for 82 games, but the effort level from the Montreal Canadiens was certainly one to be encouraged by after a dismal season.
It became pretty clear before the season started that the Canadiens would struggle to put the puck in the net. Montreal traded Max Pacioretty and Alex Galchneyuk away this summer, and those were two of the clubs primary sources for goals.