Pierre McGuire

It really might have been.

And one of the reasons why they're able to compete with Carolina, they're just as fast, if not faster.

Their transition game was phenomenal.

Yeah, they had a bad situation when Jarvis scored within 30 seconds of the drop of the first puck.

But outside of that, Caulfield's response less than 30 seconds later was pretty darn good too.

Slavkoski, Suzuki, and Coffey will obviously have a big night.

It's so important.

Chris knows that if your big guys are going at this time of year, everybody else falls.

But I'd say the biggest thing is this team could compete speed-wise with Carolina.

I don't think Carolina's faced that.

They didn't in the first round with Ottawa.

They didn't in the second round with Philadelphia.

And now Montreal's got them in a very precarious position.

If Carolina loses game two, they're in big trouble.

Big trouble.

Yeah.

The assist that he has on the Deneau goal is a world-class play because it's Deneau winning the faceoff, and then he outlegs a Carolina Hurricane player up the boards.

That's a big-time play.

And not a lot of guys can make that play because the guy gets a stick on him.

He out-strengths him and he makes a great pass and obviously Deneau scores.