Artturi Lehkonen scores two goals in return to Montreal, then leaves game with injury in Avalanche’s 8-4 win over Canadiens
MONTREAL — Artturi Lehkonen was standing at the same end of the rink where he scored the Canadiens’ most important goal of this century. That goal, the Game 6 overtime winner that sent Montreal to the 2021 Stanley Cup Final, replayed above him on the Bell Centre jumbotron.
That relentless reputation was the centerpoint of an emotional, exceptional and ultimately uneasy return to Montreal. In a mostly seamless 8-4 Avalanche win Monday, Lehkonen scored during his first shift after the tribute video, was cheered by the opposing fans, then was given belated credit for an earlier goal to bring his career total to 100. Then he exited the game with a broken finger in the second period.
“Using our feet in the D-zone, we’re being less passive,” forward Logan O’Connor said. “We’re being the aggressors, trying to dictate a little bit more.”
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