Silver Seven · Apr 17, 2021
Game 45 Preview and Open Thread: Ottawa Senators @ Montreal Canadiens
Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesRight now the Senators lead the season series four games to three while Montreal has had the lion’s share of the shot volume and scoring chances. While Ottawa may have enjoyed some lucky bounces along the way, wins against Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary have felt like some of the only bright spots in another long, losing season in Ottawa so I’ll take them any way I can get them. Ottawa probably won’t win the nerd stats battle but that doesn’t preclude scoring some garbage goals and getting an aberrational goaltending performance to compromise Montreal’s playoff odds. Ottawa ran these lines at practice yesterday: