Canadiens Lineup

Rem Pitlick – Nick Suzuki – Josh Anderson

Mike Hoffman – Kirby Dach – Evgenii Dadonov

Christian Dvorak – Jesse Ylonen

Michael Pezzetta – Alex Belzile – Harvey-Pinard

Arber Xhekaj – David Savard

Mike Matheson – Justin Barron

Jordan Harris – Johnathan Kovacevic

Chris Wideman

Sam Montembeault – Jake Allen

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Carey Price (knee), Paul Byron (hip), Sean Monahan (lower-body), Kaiden Guhle (lower-body), Brendan Gallagher (lower-body), Jake Evans (lower-body), Joel Armia (upper-body), Jonathan Drouin (upper-body), Juraj Slafkovsky (lower-body), Cole Caufield (shoulder), Joel Edmundson (upper-body)

Game Report

The Canadiens opened the contest once again playing their defensive system that kept them in most games in January. As we have discussed the team has struggled to generate offence at 5-on-5. That trend continued again tonight.

The Senators dominated the first period at even strength with shot attempts 19-7 in their favor. Montreal did not record a high-danger scoring chance in the opening frame and just managed two high-danger scoring chances in the second period.

The good news is that the listless Montreal power-play came to life scoring twice on five chances. And a dose of Rafael Harvey-Pinard playing cleanup around the Ottawa net helped bring the Habs even.

But Brady Tkachuk played hero with the help of David Savard’s skate to give the Senators their fourth straight win. The Canadiens have lost four straight and are winless in seven games wearing their powder blue retro reverse jerseys.

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