It didn’t take the Montreal Canadiens long to put the Florida Panthers on their heels. Just 35 seconds into the opening period, Tomas Tatar (13) beat starting Cats goaltender Roberto Luongo with a short-range wrister high on the stick-side.
Tatar was cutting across the ice when he took the shutout away from the living legend in net, from Lu’s right side towards his left.
Before three minutes had passed, the Habs beat Luongo again. Nicolas Deslauriers (2) took a long-range shot from near the blue line.
The puck took a weird bounce through traffic, which found its way in the back of a wide-open cage on Luongo’s glove side.