Rickard Rakell's back, yeah.

The Anaheim Ducks forward played in his third game of the season Friday, after waiting out a contract extension, and finished with three points for the second time in four days.

Rakell had two goals and an assist in his team's 5-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes, giving him six points in three games. He had three points in his season debut Tuesday, and was held scoreless Wednesday.

The point is: Rakell is averaging three points every other game, and when he's on the board, the Ducks win. And that makes Kevin Bieksa very happy:

"He's fresh," Bieksa said of Rakell after the game. "He was sitting in Sweden, in a cafe in Stockholm. This is what I expect from him."

The Ducks host the Calgary Flames on Sunday. No pressure, Mr. Rakell.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Al Montoya's still looking for it. (And the other nine.)

The Montreal Canadiens were ravaged 10-0 by the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday, and the eighth goal of the night captured the essence of Montoya's brutal game - without any help from his team.

If you're a Blue Jackets supporter and you want to relive the glory, here's a video of all 10 goals:

Never forget.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Friday was Montreal Canadiens head coach Michel Therrien's 53rd birthday. He got the worst gift of all from his team: a 10-0 shelling at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The good news: The boys are all saying the right things after hanging their poor goalie Al Montoya out to dry.

"You don't ever forget one like that," forward Brendan Gallagher said, according to The Columbus Dispatch's Aaron Portzline. "We got taught a lesson. This was an ass-kicking. We had it coming."

Therrien agreed with Gallagher's last point.

"It's a tough game," he said. "But the coaching staff, we saw it coming. We saw it coming like a big curveball."

As far as captain Max Pacioretty's concerned, the Canadiens are going to learn a lot about themselves after Friday's loss.

"We got the outcome we deserved tonight," Pacioretty told reporters. "The good news is we turn around and play again (Saturday) at home. So it's tough to shake it off when you get scored on that many times, but we'll see what type of group we have when we lace 'em up (Saturday).

"It's frustrating. We've done a lot of good things recently. It hasn't been perfect. I think the reason why we've won so many games is because we've stuck together and played for one another. And tonight we just left (Montoya) out to dry and that's what's frustrating, because we pride ourselves on being such a close group, and to leave our goalie out to dry like that is very frustrating."

Montoya stopped 30 of 40 shots.

"It was really tough to leave him in there," Therrien said of putting Montoya back in the crease to start the third period when it was already 8-0, according to Pro Hockey Talk's Cam Tucker. "That was a really tough decision to make."

Canadiens goalie coach Stephane Waite spoke with Montoya after 40 minutes, Tucker adds, presumably about the mop-up role he was going to be used in for the rest of the game.

Carey Price will be in the crease Saturday against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

A blowout of this magnitude was bound to produce plenty of noteworthy nuggets, and Friday's 10-0 rout of the Montreal Canadiens by the Columbus Blue Jackets certainly did.

Here are 10 memorable statistical tidbits from the historic blowout:

Worst Canadiens shutout loss in nearly 75 years

1st 10-goal NHL shutout in more than 2 decades

A true team effort

Canadiens' infamy revisited

1st non-playoff double-digit NHL game in more than five years

Montoya's woes highlight Price's dominance

Funny what a single game can do

Montoya and Bobrovsky have something in common

Blue Jackets' shooting percentage suddenly soars

(That percentage held up.)

Let's drag the Canucks into this

Columbus' 10 goals in the game represent nearly 60 percent of Vancouver's entire season total.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Tie Domi would be proud.

Max Domi, the son of the famous enforcer, made Ryan Kesler regret his decision to drop the gloves Friday night, sending the Anaheim Ducks forward to the ice with a vicious uppercut.

Kesler left the game to be evaluated and eventually joined his teammates back on the bench a few minutes into the second period.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Brandon Tanev got to celebrate his first NHL goal twice.

Video review was needed to confirm the Winnipeg Jets rookie found the net for the first time in his career, and the goal was a big one, as it knotted Friday's game against the Detroit Red Wings at 3-3 with less than 10 minutes to go in the third period.

Tanev made it two for himself with 80 seconds left to play, going roof in fine fashion on a breakaway to make it 4-3, and giving the Jets another third-period comeback win.

The final score was 5-3 Winnipeg. Nik Ehlers had a goal and three assists, while Mark Scheifele scored once and added two helpers.

(Videos courtesy: NHL.com)

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Al Montoya hates cannons. And you can't blame him.

The Blue Jackets put a remarkable 10 goals past the Montreal Canadiens' backup goalie on 40 shots Friday in Columbus, with the Goal Cannon going off in celebration each time.

Montoya allowed eight goals in 40 minutes, but with Montreal at home to Philadelphia on Saturday, the poor guy was back in the crease to start the third period. It was his game to lose - and hopefully forget.

Here are the best tweets from The Beatdown in Ohio:

This one's from when Columbus was up 8-0. It was a simpler time:

It's always a good time to take a shot at the Vancouver Canucks:

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Someone check on the cannon.

The Columbus Blue Jackets established a new franchise mark for goals in a game Friday night in a 10-0 dismantling of the Montreal Canadiens.

Scott Hartnell's second of the game made it 9-0 for the Blue Jackets midway through the third period, breaking the club's previous record of eight goals in a single contest.

Josh Anderson's second gave Columbus a 10-0 lead less than three minutes later.

The Blue Jackets also tied a franchise record for goals in a period with five in the second frame, a feat they last achieved against the Minnesota Wild in 2003, according to Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch.

Columbus scored eight goals in a game three other times in franchise history, most recently in an 8-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 10, 2010.

Hartnell, Anderson, Cam Atkinson, and Nick Foligno all scored two goals apiece in the victory.

Canadiens backup goaltender Al Montoya allowed all 10 Blue Jackets markers, starting in place of Carey Price on the first night of a back-to-back.

Columbus handed Montreal its first regulation loss of the season and dropped them to 9-1-1 while improving to 5-3-1.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

Give Patrik Laine space, and this is what happens.

The Winnipeg Jets phenom flicked home his seventh goal of the season Friday night, capitalizing on a collision between Detroit Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser and forward Andreas Athanasiou that wiped both of them out of the play.

The goal vaulted Laine into the rookie goal-scoring lead, surpassing Toronto Maple Leafs sensation Auston Matthews and New York Rangers winger Jimmy Vesey, who were idle Friday.

(Video courtesy: NHL.com)

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.

The Winnipeg Jets will be considerably thinner up front against the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night.

Jets forwards Mathieu Perreault and Joel Armia will both miss the game due to injuries sustained Thursday night against the Washington Capitals.

Head coach Paul Maurice told reporters Friday that Perreault is considered day to day, while Armia has gone back to Winnipeg to have tests performed for what Maurice said is "not a day to day situation."

Nicolas Petan will play against the Red Wings after being recalled earlier Friday. The 21-year-old has four goals in nine games for the AHL's Manitoba Moose and appeared in 26 NHL games last season.

Perreault has one goal and two assists in 11 games, while Armia has four points in 10 contests.

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.