MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens deserved what they got on Tuesday night — a humiliating loss punctuated by Brady Tkachuk, who scored the final goal for the Ottawa Senators before laughing his way back to the visiting bench.

Maybe the Senators’ captain couldn’t believe how easily he evaded coverage to make it 5-2 with under seven minutes remaining in regulation. Or maybe he just found it hilarious that the Canadiens repeatedly cleared the lanes for him and his teammates and gave them anything but the fight they were expecting before he added insult to injury.

This game was supposed to stoke a rivalry that had already burned white-hot from the pre-season punch-up in Quebec City through the first regular-season bout at the beginning of November. Every Canadiens player we spoke with in the

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