The Buffalo Sabres snapped a six game losing streak against the Montreal Canadiens on Friday, scoring a late winner with the man advantage on a fortuitous bounce to squeak past the Habs 2-1.

The hot Winnipeg Jets’ misery against Montreal continued on Tuesday night as they couldn’t beat a stellar Carey Price in a 3-0 loss at the Bell Centre.

It wasn’t a pretty performance by any stretch but the Montreal Canadiens knocked off the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 in a shootout on Wednesday night.

The Montreal Canadiens left it to the end on Tuesday night as they reversed a late one goal deficit and rallied for a 2-1 overtime win over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.

Montreal kicked off the NHL season on Wednesday by snapping a four game opening night losing skid to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre as both teams traded fluky goals late in the game.

For those born in the mid-to-late 1980’s, watching the Montreal Canadiens play hockey wasn’t all it was hyped up to be compared to the ‘back in my day’ stories our older relatives had.

A new addition to the Montreal’s blueline during the offseason, Tom Gilbert was brought in to offset the Josh Gorges trade even though the two stylistically are very different players.

As one of the young building blocks of the Montreal Canadiens, Brendan Gallagher didn’t scale back the aggressiveness during the 2013-2014 campaign as the little pitbull continued to make a name for himself.

Michel Therrien certainly leaned on Tomas Plekanec in a more defensive role this past season and his personal statistics showed it.

With Montreal’s top four defencemen locked in for the next few seasons, there’s not much room on the defensive end of things.