Bernier was fined an undisclosed amount and is suspended for Saturday’s match at D.C. United.

Team president Joey Saputo shared his displeasure with the evening’s entertainment, tweeting a short and far from sweet “Absolute disgrace, enough said,” at the conclusion of play.

MLS is supposed to have a hard cap, but it doesn't. Allocation money, which is never publicly declared, shifts around the league. So no one really knows who has what. And that includes the people who cover the game.

If tonight’s physically demanding game and the reaction of the fans in attendance at Saputo Stadium is any indication, there’s a mighty rivalry developing between the Houston Dynamo and the Montreal Impact.

Dropping a 2-1 decision to Chivas USA, Montreal fell victim to errant marksmanship, placing only four of its 14 shots on target, as well as to home-team gaffer Robin Fraser’s timely substitutions.

It was too good a story to ignore. The membership of the North American Soccer Reporters voted Canadian midfielder Patrice Bernier as the MLS Player of the Week.

“It’s the kind of game soccer players want to play, from the time they’re very little, in a stadium like this one and in front of a crowd that is as supportive as this one.”

But these ticket prices beg the question — now that the Montreal Impact gives local soccer fans MLS action on a weekly basis, will we see the same kind of “friendly fatigue” there that’s become so evident in Toronto, where so many of these international games are now greeted with cynicism?

If that is indeed the case — and, the Jamaican Football Federation has yet to provide an official update on Ricketts — that would mean that Greg Sutton would likely take over as the Impact’s keeper through the summer.

“I am very pleased to confirm that we will be playing our first game at Saputo Stadium on June 16th, as planned,” he declared. “At the outset of the work in October, 2011, we explained that our timetable was very tight but that we only had one scenario — to play here on the 16th of June.