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  "path": "/what-if-the-canadiens-are-just-this-good",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T14:36:16.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
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    "2026 nhl playoffs",
    "carolina hurricanes",
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  "textContent": "It took only 33 seconds to safely write off the Montreal Canadiens as just another quaint overachiever, the kind of humorously game yet clinically overmatched entrant that has filled out nearly every conference final field since the National Hockey League decided to have conferences. They come, they seem like an appealing alternative to the oppressive chalk that surrounds them, and then they disappear again to the churn of the pack, hoping for another turn in a decade or so.\n\nIt subsequently took 27 seconds to rethink _ce paragraphe premier,_ and then another 10 minutes or so to wonder if the quaint overachiever here isn't actually the Carolina Hurricanes. In those 11 minutes and change, the Canadiens not only scored four goals in response to Carolina’s first, but posed the corresponding matter of whether the Canes had too many days off after their two playoff cake tours. Or maybe Montreal is simply the real deal, and we are about to find out that it doesn't matter that they often cut their margins too fine and don't know what they don't know about high-stakes playoff competition.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYtHLjs0Xo",
  "title": "What If The Canadiens Are Just This Good?"
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