MANALAPAN, Fla. — It’s Sunday, the Montreal Canadiens are resting after their best game of the season, and Kent Hughes is in a good mood.
Despite having his travel delayed by a couple of hours to Palm Beach for these general manager meetings, he has arrived and is in a car headed to the Eau Resort and Spa, where he will make it just in time to kick his feet up and watch the Edmonton Oilers cap off a regulation win over the New York Rangers.
The result keeps the Rangers one point ahead of Hughes’s Canadiens — in the second wild-card position in the Eastern Conference — but also leaves the Canadiens with two games in hand on the Rangers.
It’s a better spot than the Canadiens were in to start the night, and it’s…