Once again, Quest does its best work not with the action of today, but with the nostalgic charms of bygone teams. Nassau Coliseum was a character in this season’s playoff drama, as the New York Islanders pushed all the way to a Game 7 in the last days of the old hockey barn.
But he hung around the team during the postseason and delivered a memorable locker room speech before Game 4: “We’re due for an Islanders win.
You can never account for the unexpected, and that was certainly the case with Canadiens coach Dominique Ducharme testing positive for COVID-19.
Lightning coach Jon Cooper joked on the bench that he wanted one goal for every TV timeout, and that they were coming too quickly.
While we’re not really buying that it’s a surprise Montreal fans have embraced a player with Gallagher’s particular brand of whimsy, we enjoyed the focus on the mercurial Canadiens forward in this episode.