Canadiens Lineup

Jonathan Drouin – Owen Beck – Mike Hoffman

Rem Pitlick – Jake Evans – Joel Armia

Michael Pezzetta – Filip Mesar – Jesse Ylonen

Rafael Harvey-Pinard – Mitchell Stephens – Anthony Richard

Mike Matheson – Justin Barron

Kaiden Guhle – Chris Wideman

Jordan Harris – Otto Leskinen

Cayden Primeau – Kevin Poulin

Sam Montembeault, Corey Schueneman, Juraj Slafkovsky, Madison Bowey, Nick Suzuki, Josh Anderson, Jake Allen, Mattias Norlinder, Arber Xhekaj, David Savard, Xavier Simoneau, Brandon Gignac, Alex Belzile, Evgenii Dadonov, Christian Dvorak, Brendan Gallagher, Cole Caufield, Kirby Dach, Emil Heineman

Carey Price (knee), Paul Byron (hip), Joel Edmundson (back), Logan Mailloux (shoulder) 

Game Report

The Canadiens first win of the exhibition schedule will have to wait. On a night when their limited offence took advantage of suspect goaltender to score four, the Habs could not fend off the potent Senators power-play. As a result, Montreal has started the pre-season with four consecutive losses.

Ottawa dominated offensive zone time throughout in this game but the Canadiens held a 4-2 lead midway through the third period thanks to some opportunistic scoring. Jake Evans had his first two goals of pre-season to open the scoring.

But Montreal was playing with fire spending most of the game chasing the puck. The result could have been worse but the Senators top line of Josh Norris, Brady Tkachuk and Drake Batherson was sitting this one out.

The Canadiens will meet them in the week ahead however. The Sens and Habs will meet three more times in the next seven days.

For this game, Habs fans will have to be content with outstanding individual plays: Jesse Ylonen’s brilliant pass to set up Montreal’s third goal, Justin Barron’s quick release for his first of the pre-season and Mike Matheson’s aerial lob to Evans for his second goal.

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