Day: April 12, 2017

The scene is set.  Two original six teams do battle once more, renewing acquaintances for the first time since the Rangers knocked out Carey Price and the Montreal Canadiens in the 2014 Eastern Conference Finals.  In the case of Price it was literal, figurative of course in terms of the Canadiens in general.

Many in Le Metropole – it’s a nickname for Montreal according to Wikipedia – still harbor grudges against Chris Kreider and the Rangers for that series, though I’m sure few of those same fans will recall the blindside hit by Brandon Prust on Derek Stepan in Game 3 that broke his jaw, nor would those same fans recall that the Canadiens would probably have cleaned up in the World Diving Championships held the next month in Shanghai.  But I digress…