Canadiens Lineup

Tyler Toffoli – Nick Suzuki – Joel Armia

 Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Phillip Danault – Josh Anderson

Artturi Lehkonen – Jake Evans – Cole Caufield

Michael Frolik – Eric Staal – Corey Perry

Ben Chiarot – Alexander Romanov

Joel Edmundson – Jeff Petry

Brett Kulak – Jon Merrill

Cayden Primeau – Jake Allen

Erik Gustafsson

Xavier Ouellet, Charlie Lindgren, Michael Pezzetta, Joel Teasdale, Ryan Poehling, Alex Belzile

Brendan Gallagher (hand), Carey Price (concussion), Paul Byron (lower-body), Jonathan Drouin (undisclosed), Tomas Tatar (lower-body), Shea Weber (upper-body)

Game Report

One day the Ottawa Senators are going to be a legitimately strong team. As we witnessed in the first period, the Senators are a quick squad who do have budding talent. They may have given the Habs fits this season but Ottawa isn’t ready to put it all together on a consistent basis.

With the Canadiens down by two goals with fourteen minutes left in the third, it was the home team who found the energy to dominant the Senators despite playing on consecutive nights. Montreal outshot Ottawa 18-3, scoring twice in a six minute span to tie the game.

After Nick Suzuki’s third period goal was waived off due to goaltender interference by Corey Perry, Suzuki went back to work setting up Tyler Toffoli for his 27th goal of the season.

The stage was then set for the dramatic ending to the contest with Cole Caufield scoring the game-winner, his first goal in the NHL. It was also the re-emergence of Jeff Petry who scored for the first time in 23 games and found Caufield for the OT winner. 

Cayden Primeau received the goal support he needed for his first win of the season. Primeau had an up and down game making some solid saves but sending far too many rebounds into the slot. Primeau was able to spell Jake Allen for a game but it’s clear that he needs at least two more seasons in the AHL to develop his consistency.

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