Rookie pulls off hat trick in closing game

Canadiens rookie Ryan Poehling sailed out onto the ice Saturday evening and got a hat trick and the game-winning shootout goal against the Maple Leafs – in a game that was conventionally meaningless with the Canadiens out of the playoffs. Poehling, 20, joins Joe Malone, Alex Smart, Aurèle Joliat and John Ferguson on the short list of Canadiens players to score more than once in his first outing. Too bad it had to be the closing game of the regular season.

Bar owners in particular are in mourning over the lost potential of playoff season.