The bad news is the Canadiens lost their season opener 5-2 to the Maple Leafs on Wednesday night with the last two Toronto goals scored into an empty net. Article content

The good news is the Canadiens’ penalty-killing — a question mark coming into the season — was outstanding. Article content Article content

The Canadiens ranked ninth in the NHL last season on the PK with an 80.9 per cent success rate. But three key members of last season’s PK are now gone — defenceman David Savard retired, while Christian Dvorak signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers and Joel Armia signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Kings.

Against the Leafs on Wednesday night, the first PK unit had forwards Jake Evans and Josh Anderson with defencemen Mike Matheson and Noah Dobson, whil

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