The Montreal Canadiens visit the Washington Capitals in Game 5 of the first-round, best-of-7 series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Friday.

Resilience has been the beating heart of the Montreal Canadiens all season, carrying them through a wild roller-coaster ride of 82 games and into the thick of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.That same fighting spirit will need to be front and center on Wednesday,

If the answer is “no,” that’s OK. Montreal nearly backed its way into the playoffs and the Washington Capitals hit a rough patch of their own. Still, this matchup brings a whole bunch of juice — the most prolific goal scorer of all time, the East’s top team and the return of postseason hockey to one of the sport’s true epicenters.