Montreal Canadiens: Three Reasons Why We Are Happy The Season is Over

The Montreal Canadiens season ended with quite a bang on Friday night.

The Habs were in front of their Bell Centre fans for the final time this year and they put on quite a show against the best team in the league.

Well, it wasn’t exactly the best team in the league that they were facing. The Florida Panthers are the President’s Trophy winning team in the NHL, but knowing that before Friday night’s contest they chose to rest almost all of their regulars. Even Anton Lundell and Gustav Forsling who dressed for the game, didn’t play at all and just stayed in the dressing room after the second period.

So, the Canadiens 10-2 win was a fun way to end a bad season, but it wasn’t that surprising that they were able to pile up goals against the Panthers minor league squad and Jonas Johansson who is the team’s third string goaltender.

It was a nice sendoff for the fans who were in attendance and showed up to cheer the team on as much as they could this season. We all knew since November that the playoffs were out of the question, but the team had a bit of a rebirth under Martin St. Louis. At least for a little while.

Eventually, the team suffered through a nine game losing streak with St. Louis behind the bench, but they closed out the season on a nice note with consecutive wins.

It was a long and gruelling season at times for fans, so there are reasons that we are happy it is finally over.