"It took just nine seconds into Rene Bourque's first shift Jan. 18 for the Washington Capitals' Matt Hendricks to challenge him to fight. On Jan. 3, then with the Calgary Flames, Bourque put Nicklas Backstrom out of the lineup with a reckless elbow to the head.

That was a way of getting some sort of retribution, but it might not be the end of the whole situation for the Montreal Canadiens forward.

"I don't know. Our guy's still out. I don't think our guys are ever going to forget what happened," Caps forward Brooks Laich said. "I don't know. I don't know if it's over or not. We're going to win a hockey game. That's the main focus. If anything else happens, it happens."

Something very well may have happened Saturday in the Caps-Canadiens matinee had Joel Rechlicz played."