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Canadiens up, Blackhawks down, and six more takeaways from the NHL's opening night

The NHL dropped the puck on its abridged, 56-game season on Wednesday and one thing became clear: the next 115 nights -- which will cram in 863 games -- are going to be a doozy. Opening night brought us a little bit of everything: a banner raising without fans, a highly dramatic puck drop, a fight, overtime, a dizzying amount of advertisements and 37 combined goals.

Here are our main takeaways:

1. The Montreal Canadiens should be a player in the North Division

In taking the Toronto Maple Leafs -- the team everyone is predicting to run away with the division -- to overtime, the Habs made a statement.