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The senators of Ottawa may be technically the home team against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday in Quebec City. However, they had a good reason to be booed from the Videotron Center and to lose 5-0 to the Habs in a game in which the “visitors” let them pay to the Power Play time and time again due to their lack of discipline in a filled affair.

Summary

Canadiens Keeper Jakub Dobes remained perfect in the preseason To earn the shutout. In the meantime, Forward Kirby Dach closed the score in the third on an impressive representation of hand-eye coordination, causing a Brendan Gallagher to turn from the air behind senators keeper Leevi Merilainen. Halfway through the last frame it came the third Power-Play goal of the Habs of the game (officially on seven chances), which with senators ahead Nick Cousins ​​in the penalty box for an unnecessary sloping line on Ivan Demidov.

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While Dach’s goal, his second point, effectively ended the match with a chance of almost zero on a comeback, the senators had other plans, but not with regard to the scoreboard. Five minutes later, SENS -defender Donovan Sebrango decided to put their frustrations on one hand by putting on a fight with the Canadiens and taking him to the ground, building 17 penalties in minutes at stake.

The indiscipline of the senators resulted in another (seven minutes) Power Play for the Canadiens, on which an apparent (and Happy) No-Worse-For-Wear Dach I have ice age. However, people get the feeling that they were satisfied to just get up the clock in a game that had long been decided and the risk of (more) got out of hand. Dating out until late in the second period, when the Poederkeg initially exploded after senators attacker Hayden Hodgson Canadiens faced Alex Newhook from behind and then took the physical exception to Alexandre Carrier who stopped for his teammate, the HABS had long proven their point:

This edition of the Canadiens will not be easily pushed around.

Hodgson may have had his way with Carrier. Before the next Faceoff, however, Arber Xhekaj and Jayden won their own, simultaneous fighting against Zack Macewen and Jan Jenik. While Strurle Jenik had checked in the face before he had been removed in it, the Canadiens still got a fully two-minute two-man benefit when everything was said and done. In the end, they did not score that Power Play, but they didn’t really have to, with their three total Power-Play goals in the game, the other two came in the second from the sticks of Patrik Line to make the score 2-0 and Lane Hutson in the third to make it 4-0.

Oliver Kapanen opened the score early in the first for a nice pass by Alex Newhook from behind the net. Carrier completed the score of a perfectly placed top-corner shot, making it 3-0 halfway through the game, whereby Hodgson illuminated the wick of the out-of-school activities of the game by fighting the first handful of minutes later.

The two teams exclude their respective preseason schedules on Saturday, against each other in the Bell Center, where the Canadiens will be the clear hosts. The HABS are so far 4-1 This preseason, the Sens, who also visit the St. Louis Blues on Thursday, are 2-2.