I said at the beginning of the season that with players out for centralization Montréal was going to wreck the league. I hadn’t quite counted on exactly how good Kunlun Red Star was going to be, but when the Canadiennes face a team like Toronto it would have been nice to have been a little less right.
This was truly a slow-motion start for the Furies. They got puck possession, strolled into the Canadiennes' zone, nudged the puck towards Emerance Maschmeyer... and Katia Clement-Heydra put it past Sonja van der Bliek at the other end of the ice.