The Montreal Canadiens are one win from eliminating the heavily favored Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Qualifiers, and forward Phillip Danault suggests his team's fortunes have been decided not by goals and saves, but by a higher power.

"It's different this year, I guess," Danault said Thursday of the 2020 NHL postseason. "I definitely love it. We got lucky enough to be in the ncaa personalized heat transfers playoffs this season. We battled hard to Dallas Cowboys Shield Logo iron on stickers be here. We shouldn't be here. But at the same time, sometimes it's the hockey gods at some point."

The Canadiens were 31-31-9 when the NHL season paused on March 12 due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus, 10 points out of a spot in the Stanley Glass Playoffs.

But with the NHL Return to Play Plan putting the top 12 teams from each conference, based on points percentage, in a hub city, the Canadiens (.500) were the last team to make it from the Eastern Conference.

The top four teams in each conference are playing a round-robin to determine seeding for the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, while the others are playing eight best-of-5 series to determine who advances.

The No. 12 seed Canadiens drew the No. 5 Pittsburgh Penguins (40-23-6, .623), a group with a championship pedigree and top centers covid-19 custom One Color Iron On Stickers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.

But after a come-from-behind 4-3 win in Game 3 on Wednesday at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the Eastern Conference hub town, the Canadiens lead the series. They have two chances to eliminate Pittsburgh and advance to the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.