Well, this one was looking like a good ol’ Edmonton blow out, and it wasn’t.
GAME RECAP
The first period got off to a quick start, and Ottawa looked good. Mike Hoffman opened up the scoring in the 1st as he continued his hot streak. Scrivens wasn’t in the zone, and Edmonton suffered. Hoffman sniped it over Scrivens’ glove. 1 – 0 Ottawa.
Alex Chiasson picked up his 4th goal of the season, on a re-direct by Chris Phillips. Chiasson’s 4th is his first even strength goal. It was Milan Michalek who widened the gap, after a feed from Bobby Ryan was buried into an open cage.
3 – 0 Ottawa after the 1st, and we wouldn’t see anything from Ottawa until OT.
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In hockey’s “dreaded 3 goal lead”, Edmonton came roaring back. It was Leon Draisaitl who tallied his 2nd NHL goal, in the 2nd periodon a rebound in front of Craig Anderson. There were 3 fights at this point and for what was a silent Edmonton crowd, the fans had come alive.
The 3rd was hard to watch as a Senators fan. First it was Jordan Eberle scoring another “garbage goal” and then it was Jeff Petry from the faceoff circle. A 3 – 3 tie heading into OT.
Just a few seconds in, Jordan Eberle walks in on Anderson with a wrist shot and rings if off the post. The Oilers came a few inches away from winning this game. However, Mike Hoffman stepped up and scored his 2nd of the game for an OT squeaker past Ben Scrivens.
GAME NOTES & OBSERVATIONS
- Mike Hoffman is on a 3 game scoring streak, has 6 goals in his last 5 games
- Cody Ceci had another brilliant night, showing his tireless skating
- Craig Anderson was solid again, a .919 SV% is worse than his average, but will take it for the win.
- Other than the Petry goal, Edmonton’s chances could have gone either way, edmonton applied the pressure in the 3rd; but I don’t think you can blame the d-corps for this one
- Mike Hoffman was a 5th round pick.
- Bobby Ryan has to get some sort of a goal scoring monkey off his back, 3 in 15 isn’t going to cut it.
COLIN GREENING
I’ve covered it here on Senshot, and the possibilities the Senators have with Colin Greening, it is interesting to see on TSN’s insider trading that the Senators will be able to get a “3rd, 4th or 5th round pick” out of him.
The Senators are able to trade Greening as GM’s around the league are trying to squeeze this guy for free. While, the Senators are still looking to make a “hockey trade” in which case, where do the Senators need other NHL talent? Unless Greening is being packaged a trade with NHL talent coming back solely for Greening wouldn’t make sense.
Maybe the Senators are looking at some much needed help for Binghamton with a potential future. If you haven’t read up on Bingo’s struggles just check out Jeff’s coverage here.
UP NEXT
The Sens travel to Calgary to face a hot Flames squad as they will look to douse the flame but it will be no easy task.