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Kirby Dach on Donovan Sebrango: 'if it had happened on the street, you’d be in trouble'

Originally posted on Dose.ca | Last updated Oct 1, 2025 10:11 AM ET

Yesterday, the Canadiens-Senators rivalry was taken to a new level. With all the battles and physical play on the ice in Quebec City, it felt at times like the Habs-Nordiques rivalry. How do you like that for a warm-up game? Would you have preferred the Rangers (or any other club with no great rivalry) to be on the menu? Are you looking forward to a four-game pre-season schedule in 2026? In my opinion, many Canadiens players could have done without yesterday’s game. Ivan Demidov (who didn’t finish yesterday’s game) is undoubtedly one of them. Even if Martin St-Louis isn’t worried – yet – and even if Alexandre Carrier wasn’t afraid to say that no one on the Canadiens was injured, everyone is holding their breath regarding Ivan Demidov, who took a blow to the hand.

Habs coach Marty St. Louis when asked if he was worried about Ivan Demidov:

“Not right now. He’s still being evaluated, so not right now.” pic.twitter.com/gUyXu6tL53– /r/Habs (@HabsOnReddit) October 1, 2025

Let’s not forget that the Russian didn’t come out on the ice at the Centre Vidéotron to thank the crowd when he was named third star yesterday, unlike his teammates.Let’s also remember, on this subject, that the Sens were playing at home. #TerritoireDuCanadien

But there’s clearly another dissatisfied customer in all this: Kirby Dach. The guy got jumped by Donovan Sebrango, who isn’t exactly an impact player. Not impact in the good sense of the word, anyway.

Donovan Sebrango jumps Kirby Dach with 5 minutes to go in Quebec City#gosensgo#gohabsgo

pic.twitter.com/waD5Sojkcm– RGF (@rgfray1) October 1, 2025

And clearly, after the game, the Habs player wasn’t exactly a satisfied customer. He told the media that if this gesture had happened on the street, Sebrango (Eduardo’s son, who played for the Impact and runs the Academy) would be in trouble, so Dach took a page from the fan book: if a gesture had happened in real life, it wouldn’t be the same.

@CanadiensMTL @Senators

– Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) October 1, 2025

You can really sense that there’s a lot of dissatisfaction on both sides. Saturday, the Sens will be in Montreal…

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– Will there be suspensions on both sides?

Suspension coming for Struble? https://t.co/WP38t6QCUr –

Jimmy Murphy (@MurphysLaw74) October 1, 2025

– Laval and Belleville face off in two days.

Worth noting that the Laval Rocket play the B-Sens on Friday in Belleville in AHL preseason. Will we see the same sort of spectacle we saw in Quebec City on Tuesday night?

– Andrew Zadarnowski (@AZadarski) October 1, 2025

– On a lighter note,