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So here is the situation for those Canadiens fans who are forever gripped by crisis — they are panicking today because there’s nothing to panic about.

Devastated were the prophets of doom when they read these statistics Sunday morning, a few hours after the Canadiens’ 4-1 victory over the visiting Detroit Red Wings:

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The Habs were 6-0, the NHL’s only club without a regulation or overtime/shootout defeat. They had scored a league-high 20 goals and surrendered a league-low seven against.

The power play, which slumbered out of the gate, scored twice Saturday — first on a Brendan Gallagher, break-up-the-double-play slide, then on Jeff Petry’s needle-threading rocket that followed a nice banked pass from Alex Galchenyuk, P.K. Subban serving as the blue-line decoy.

Centre Tomas Plekanec was tied for the NHL lead in goals with five, captain and linemate Max Pacioretty one back. With Gallagher’s industrial-strength first of the season on Saturday, that line has scored 10 of the Canadiens’ 20.