Montreal - Carolina series begins.

Tonight the Montreal Canadiens enters the dance in the 2006 playoffs. Christobal Huet will face Martin Gerber for Carolina.

The afternoon games showed the New-Jersey Devils pound the New-York Rangers 6-1.
Meaningwhile in Dallas, the Colorado Avalanche storms the Dallas Stars 5-2 scoring at will on the power play and take a 1-0 lead in the best of 7 series.

Calgary, Detroit, Nashville and Ottawa all already lead their respective series 1-0.