One thing kept entering my mind as I was watching the Montreal Canadiens play the Boston Bruins: Playoff hockey.
It wasn’t a perfect game, and it wasn’t a game I’d mark down for the annals of history. But it felt like a playoff game.
It was low scoring, there was physicality, and there wasn’t much room to work with. You could tell that both teams wanted the game badly. When David Krejci scored to tie the game, he had a big fist pump. Same thing for Jeff Petry when he won the game in overtime.