After securing two wins to round out their West Coast road trip, the Senators returned to the Canadian Tire Centre for the first game of a home-and-home with the skidding New York Rangers. Fresh off three losses in a row, the Rangers turned to Jaroslav Halak as their goaltender. Since Halak had yet to win a game this season, the feeling around Sens Twitter was that the Rangers’ netminder would post a 40 save shut out. Let’s see what happened.
The first period looked very familiar to the faithful at the CTC. The Sens played well, outshot and outchanced their opponent, but ended up surrendering the first goal of the game nonetheless.