Canadiens Face Hard Choices After East Final Collapse

Montreal’s playoff run ends with the kind of sour taste that usually sends a front office straight to the whiteboard. The Canadiens have enough talent to tease a future run, but this kind of loss tends to expose which pieces fit and which ones are just taking up salary cap oxygen. With the offseason now in view, the pressure is on to turn disappointment into actual roster change, because this is where good teams stop being sentimental.