Tuesday night could have gone badly for the Montreal Canadiens. The Vancouver Canucks were good, the officiating was not, and through 40 minutes it was very hard to envision the Habs leaving Vancouver with two points.
With the way things have been going lately for the Tricolore, it seemed inevitable that the home team would be taking the win.
An absurd tripping call on Tomas Tatar gave the Canucks their first and only lead of the night. Tatar has admittedly been in the box more than you want to see this year, but it’s quite hard to jump on him for that particular infraction when Jake Virtanen went down easier than my first beer after a long week at work.