Claim: On the 1969–70 Montreal Canadiens season, The Montreal Canadiens were in a desperate race to qualify for the NHL playoffs and hosted the Chicago Blackhawks which had three more points a few minutes left in the second quarter.
Evidence: The 1969–70 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 61st season of play. April 5, 1970 – The Montreal Canadiens were in a desperate race to qualify for the NHL playoffs. The Canadiens hosted the Chicago Blackhawks. Montreal's only hope of qualifying for the playoffs was to score three more goals. Chicago would score five empty net goals and win the game by a score of 10–2. Montreal would miss the playoffs for the first time in 22 years. East Division Chicago Black Hawks 76 With 9 minutes and 30 seconds left in the third period, Montreal was down by a score of 5–2. Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to manoeuvre a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the strongest professional ice hockey league, drawing top ice hockey players from around the globe. The NHL rules are slightly different from those used in Olympic ice hockey over many categories. Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck towards the opponent's net to score goals. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the highest level for men's ice hockey and the strongest professional ice hockey league in the world. A professional game consists of three periods of twenty minutes, the clock running only when the puck is in play. The teams change ends after each period of play, including overtime.