MONTREAL — For just the second time in their history, the Montreal Canadiens have started their season without a point through five games. They’re on the verge of breaking a record that certainly won’t go up next to the various plaques in their dressing room by becoming the first team in NHL history to follow an appearance in the Stanley Cup Final with a six-game losing streak to start the season. How have the Canadiens found themselves on this precipice? Much of the damage was self-inflicted through the first four losses, and everything else went against them. Everything that was left to go followed in this fifth one — a 4-1 win for the Carolina Hurricanes , who were all smiles after extending their own record to 3-0. Jesperi Kotkaniemi ’s smile was quite wide as he entered the press room to talk about scoring his first goal of the season against the team that drafted him third overall in 2018. He was booed mercilessly in his first return to the Bell Centre since signing a $6....