MONTREAL — Andreas Johnsson said he wanted to bet on himself when he accepted a one-year deal with the Leafs last summer.



So is this what the 24-year-old, who scored again in Montreal, had in mind?



“Maybe even better,” Johnsson said with a big grin as teammates tightened ties and threw on blazers in an emptying visitors dressing room at the Bell Centre on Saturday night. “Honestly, I didn’t really know what to expect. That’s actually my answer. I didn’t really know what to expect this season. I felt like, OK, yeah, if everything goes exactly perfect, yeah then maybe I could score a lot of points.



“And if everything goes to shit I’d get sent down.”



In that worst-case scenario, Johnsson figured that maybe he would eventually end up back home in Sweden, where he thrived just before hopping over to North America, or perhaps he would find another league in some other European...