BOSTON – The first period in Gillette Stadium set the tone for the 2016 NHL Winter Classic.
Brendan Gallagher returned to the Montreal Canadiens lineup and anchored the Habs to a 5-1 win over Boston. 
“I mean, the way the night went, couldn’t really ask for anything more. I just think it was a great team effort,” Gallagher said after the game. ” We all had so much fun. You can’t undervalue the smiles that everyone had coming into the rink. Starting yesterday at practice, everyone chipped in. It was a great team effort. For me coming back, I said I wasn’t going to come back if I couldn’t contribute, and I was happy to be a part of it tonight.”
Habs head coach Michel Therrien was asked if the win would jump-start his club after a brutal month of December.
” I think we have to build on that. This is a great souvenir for players and all. We’ve got — players are surrounded with their family and their friends and you want to remember that day. And the best way, first of all, to remember that day is to win this hockey game,” he said. “We didn’t want it to be a nightmare. We want to make sure that we’re going to have good memories and build on that big win. And this is exactly — this was an emotional game, exactly what we did, but we have to build on that, a big game for us. ”
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