Montreal Canadiens 5-4 Ottawa ‘meh’ Senators
TopShelf’s Completely professional GameReport:
Jaroslav Halak stopped the 2 shootout attempts against him while Maxim Lapierre and Alex Kovalev scored, enabling the Montreal Canadiens to beat the Ottawa Senators 5-4 on Saturday night.
Ottawa came into the game on the back of two straight wins, riding rookie goaltender Brian Elliott’s stellar performances.
Montreal opened the scoring early, once again on the powerplay. Robert Lang found Kovalev unmarked at the side of the net and the veteran Russian winger had no trouble beating Elliott to the short side with a one timer.
The Senators’ response didn’t take long to come though. Jarkko Ruutu, who was in posession of the puck behind the net, spotted the incoming Chris Kelly and fed him beautifully for Kelly to net his 6th of the year.
The Habs struck back even quicker though, barely 90 seconds later Lang once again found an open teammate in the form of Andrei Kostitsyn who scored his 16th of the season.
The Canadiens pressured on more and more, hoping to capitalise on a rookie goaltender.
That came 14:46 into the middle period when Gregory Stwart, who was making his season debut for Montreal, passed the puck to an unmarked Matt D’Agostini in the slot who made no mistake beating Elliott with a quick snap shot for his 7th of the season.
But just as it looked like the Sens were dead and buried, Dany Heatley came to the rescue. A bit over five minutes into the final period, the All-Star winger received Brian Lee’s pass and found himself on a 3-on-1 opportunity with his linemates, but the West Germany native beat Halak himself with a beautiful snap shot.
But Montreal restored its 2 goal lead via Tom Kostopoulos. Kostopoulos gained control of the puck in the neutral zone and entered the Ottawa zone where he took a seemingly harmless shot which beat Elliott to the short side.
But just as the game looked like it was about to get out of hand for the Senators, Heatley came to the rescue once again.
Jason Spezza avoided Mike Komisarek’s impending hit and the puck went to Heatley, and it may have taken him two attempts but he finally got the puck past Montreal’s Slovak netminder to give the home team a lifeline.
And with just less than 90 seconds to play, Mike Fisher wired an electric snap shot past Halak to put the home fans into delirium and tie the game.
After both teams had their chances to win it in overtime, Halak made the stops necesarry in the shootout while Alex Kovalev and Maxim Lapierre both undressed Elliott to give their team a second straight win.
TopShelf’s notes o’ da day:
-Maxim Lapierre – FUCKEN OFFENSIVE FORCE! Did you see that move? He deked me out while I was at my buddy’s watching on the couch. I went high glove and he went high pad. Fucken amazing.
-Greek Sleek finally gets a fucken goal. Thank you Brian Elliott.
-Speaking of sleekness, Elliott’s not all that bad. Guy made some very good saves and were it not for his heroics on the TurtlePleks and Hollywood Rob breakaways, game would have been long gone.
-I fucken love Greg Stewart. Fucken stalwart man! OHHHH BRYAN MCCABEEEE!!! REMEMBER THAT TIME YOU GOT YOUR ASS KICKED BY A KID PLAYING HIS FIRST NHL GAME!?!?!? Man, fun times eh!?
-Game shouldn’t have gone to shootouts. We just went to sleep in the third period and decided to give the Sluts hope. But like I always say, “NO MERCY! NO MERCY! SCORE! SCORE! SCORE! FINISH! KILL!! IMPRISON! TORTURE! RAPE! RAPE! RAPE!”.
-…too much?
-I thought Polish Thunder was done. Seriously man, watch that shit in slow-no. His arm bent in ways not seen since Sleepless in Seattle.
-Hollywood Rob is fucken awesome. ‘Consolation prize’ my bum.
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