MONTREAL - As is tradition during home openers across the National Hockey League, each individual player on the active roster is introduced with great fanfare to their home faithful.

In the Montreal Canadiens case, players exited from the locker room entrance and skated to centre ice for their moment in the spotlight on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre.

While every player received a warm welcome from the crowd, there were, naturally, some that received louder ovations than others. That group included Cole Caufield and rookie Ivan Demidov.

Some 2 1/2 hours later, those fans were still applauding Demidov and Caufield as they both led the Canadiens to a thrilling 5-4 overtime win over the Seattle Kraken.

“We owed this building a win there and it wasn’t pretty, but at the end of the day we

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