The first round series between the Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators got off to an exciting start marked with explosive scoring and emotions left on the ice as the Habs took Game 1 of the opener 4-3.

The second period was especially captivating as Montreal scored twice in 15 seconds, which as Yahoo Sports points out, is the fastest two playoff goals by Montreal since 1998.

Just seconds following Torrey Mitchell and Tomas Plekanec's pair of goals, a pair of slashing incidents overshadowed the intense action. Shortly after the Habs back-to-back goals, Lars Eller was caught with the infraction, and seven seconds after that, P.K. Subban was slapped with a five-minute major and game misconduct for taking a chop at Mark Stone's hands, which sent the Senators' scoring leader down in obvious pain.

"I agree it was a slashing penalty, but I don't agree that it deserved five minutes," Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said.

Senators coach Dave Cameron was pretty straightforward about his opinion on the incident, "I think it's quite simple"”it's a vicious slash on an unprotected part of the body. You either do one of two things. I think it's an easy solution"”you either suspend him, or when of their best players gets slashed, just give us five (minutes)."

Stone, who was riding a nine-game point streak heading into Game 1, returned for the Senators.

"It's up to the league. Obviously, it was a pretty big hack. It looked like he wanted to hurt me. He had been doing it a couple of times, he tried targeting me a couple of times in the first period faceoffs," Stone said of Subban.

Game 2 is one Friday at 7:00 pm, after which the series shifts to Ottawa for Game 3 on Sunday. You can catch the action online via live stream here.