There are nights during an 82-game season where every lingering issue around a team crashes down on it all at once, creating a veritable tsunami of a loss.
This is, Patrick Roy says, part of the normal process for young players. They want to stick in the lineup, they assume the way to do that is to put up numbers.
With the possible exceptions of Mathieu Darche and Emil Heineman, even the most optimistic believer did not expect this sort of output from the forward.