Bruins 3, Senators 1
The Ottawa Senators were good for extended stretches Monday, but good isn’t good enough against a Boston Bruins squad that continues to showcase why they’re the class of the NHL.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
The Senators came into the game on a 3-0-1 roll and with a 6-1-1 record in their previous eight games, including Sunday’s 7-2 romp over the St. Louis Blues at Canadian Tire Centre, keeping alive faint hopes of making the playoffs. They entered the game five points and five teams out of a post-season spot, but they hit a stop sign in Boston.
Coming back against the Bruins when trailing two periods has effectively become Mission Impossible. The Bruins are now 30-0-2 when they’re ahead after 40 minutes. Up until the first Pastrnak goal, Mandolese was fantastic, making several key saves, including a superb left pad stop off David Krejci. Ullmark, a top candidate to win the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goaltender this season, also needed to be at his best to keep the Senators from taking the lead.
They’re the NHL’s stingiest defensive team and Ullmark entered the game with a 28-4-1 record, 1.91 goals against average and .936 save percentage.Article content “We would love to have that back in a tight game like this, but you can’t let it affect the rest of the game and I don’t think it did,” said Smith. “We played hard. That’s a really good team. We checked really hard. was really good. Just at the end of the day, a couple of mistakes made ended up in our net.”Article content
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