Based on their sloppy performance on Saturday night, not to mention some key injuries, the 4 Nations Face-Off break did not serve the Ottawa Senators very well.
Off, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators had been rusty on Saturday night, but that wasn’t the case. It took less than three minutes for the Habs to open the score,
Brendan Gallagher: I'll talk you through today as an example. I'm in Dublin the day before the big game between Wales and Ireland. We had to be at Croke Park for 10 o'clock. Warren Gatland and the Wales team came down to do 10 minutes with the media.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to five games with a 4-1 victory against the Seattle Kraken.
Brendan Gallagher scored and added an assist, leading the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-2 win over the host Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.