I know this is hard for Montreal Canadiens fans, but can we just admit the New Jersey Devils had a solid game plan and executed it to near

AUDIO: P.K. Subban | Hal Gill | Brian Gionta

"it's what they do," Brian Gionta said.

The Canadiens captain knows his former team well.

The New Jersey Devils contest

Ignominiously.

Same old Devils ... even without Parise and Martin

Savour that one.

It's not often the Canadiens romp in New Jersey.

• Pat Hickey's game story

• Quotes from the room

• About last night ...

• Arpon Basu

Weber or Subban?

That's the question that will preoccupy sports talk radio in Montreal today. It may even come up on Mitch Melnick's afternoon show on the Team 990,

Jekyll and Habs.

Or as Michel Bergeron put it on RDS:

"Les Devils. Wow! Wow! Wow!"

No Martin F.?

No Zach F.?

No effing way – especially when the Canadiens are in bounce-back

Gotta love .500 hockey. 

And what's more entertainiong than 30 minutes of garbage

"Hey, how about I make this the entirety of About Last Night ...:

"What a pice of s---?"

My pressbox neighbour, Arpon Basu, thought that just about summed things up.

Basu

He haunts our dreams ...

29 saves and a big fat