MONTREAL — Nine seconds of pure bedlam.
And the idea was born from a three-person group chat earlier in the day.
Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk and J.T. Miller had an idea. Let’s go rock’em sock’em right off the start of the game, they texted each other. Let’s send them a message.
“Yeah, there was a little discussion during the day,” began Brady Tkachuk, hesitating when I asked the two brothers postgame if they planned it.
“You can tell them,” older brother Matthew then told Brady.