OTTAWA — As a hometown kid, Jean-Gabriel Pageau feeds off the noise of the crowd here. Sometimes, he feeds off more than that. “I thought I ate too much before the game,” he said. “I had two chicken parms.”
In which case, the Senators are a good bet to bolster the Italian buffet. By the end of a vibrant Game 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs second round, he had twice as many goals as he did lunch entrees. Four goals scored, including two in the final 3:19 of regulation, one on a desperate 6-on-5 situation and one in the second overtime, made his team feel and its fans feel like satisfied guests at Thanksgiving dinner.