There’s consensus from those who tuned into Monday afternoon’s affair between the Ottawa Senators and Minnesota Wild: the offence was still off for Thanksgiving.
The game was choppy, with 13 (!) penalties called in total — seven for Ottawa, six for Minnesota — that disrupted the flow of play at even-strength. When push came to shove in the third, it was the Wild who emerged victorious. A cheeky slash from Victor Rask took the stick out of Thomas Chabot’s hands, leaving the Sens star defender unable to close in on Rask in tight.