For the first time in the club's 29-year history, the Florida Panthers have won the President's Trophy, the award that goes to the best team in the regular season.

But they did not get a further end to the season.

Last night it was a loss with a full 2-10 away against Montreal, in a match where Florida rested most of the team's best players.

Montreal last in the league

But after the game, there was no doubt that tonight's match was more about making the players as fresh as possible for the playoffs, where Washington is waiting in the quarterfinals, rather than making a good result.

- That was the priority.

And we achieved that, says coach Andrew Brunettew, according to the Miami Herald.

For Montreal, who with their 55 points finished last in the Eastern Division and can actually be last in the entire league, it was a season-ending finish in major.

And that it was just ten goals for the team was fitting, when Montreal legend Guy Lafleur, who died last week, had just jersey number ten.

"Too bad we lost"

When Tyler Pitlick scored the team's tenth goal, the entire Bell Center tuned in in unison “Guy!

Guy!

Guy! ”

- It was my dad's favorite player and for many in that generation it was all about Guy.

It was a pity we lost him so early, but gosh what a hockey player he was!

You do not find so many Guys, but I wish we had not conceded ten goals, says Brunette, according to the news agency AP.

Johansson's first in two months

For the two goalkeepers, it was at least different matches.

The former Brynäs goalkeeper Jonas Johansson thus conceded ten goals, in his first match in over two months.

But for Montreal's Carey Price, things went even better, with 37 saved shots in what became his first victory of the season - where he missed most of them due to a knee injury and fought drug abuse.

The last time he won a match was in last season's fourth Stanley Cup final.

- It meant everything to us.

He's the team's backbone, the guy you want to play for, says Montreal's Cole Caufield, who scored three goals and celebrated his first NHL hat-trick of his career.

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