-Ottawa defeated Boston 4-2 last night to clinch seventh place and face Montreal; Robin Lehner made 34 saves for the win, while Erik Condra, Jared Cowen, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, and Kyle Turris (empty-net) scored the goals. The Sens are a different team when they have the lead and although they gave up a 2-0 advantage they were able to pull out the victory. Ottawa has secured the best possible match-up given the scenarios last night so they have to be happy. Here’s the boxscore.
–The Hockey News offers its Eastern Conference preview and gives Ottawa the edge over the Habs (seeing the team has having better goaltending, defense, special teams, and coaching).
–Pierre LeBrun goes through the Ottawa-Montreal match-up and see’s the Habs winning in a long series.
–NHL.com previews the series without making predictions, but says for the Sens to win they need Craig Anderson at pre-injury form and Erik Karlsson to be all he can be. One other note: amusingly they include future AHLer Mike Lundin as part of Ottawa’s blueline.
–Sylvain St-Laurent thinks the Sens will win in six, believing the pressure of being the favourite will get to the Habs.
-Here’s my preview of the series.
-Habs blogger Andrew Berkshire see’s Fenwick monster Montreal dominating the Habs (even suggesting Montreal is a worse match-up for Ottawa than Boston or Pittsburgh).
-Binghamton lost 3-2 to Wilkes-Barre again last night (minus the overtime of the first game); Nathan Lawson made 21 saves in the loss, while Matt Puempel and Chris Wideman scored the goals. The B-Sens once again played from behind and have yet to lead in the series. I wonder if Luke Richardson will make some tweaks to his lineup before game three. Here’s the boxscore.
This article is written by Peter Levi (@eyeonthesens)
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