OTTAWA senators have already made their place in Stanley Cup playoffs this year. However, big games, including a lot of home competitions against a Montreal Canadiens team on Friday, still stay in the normal season program.
OTTAWA (42-30-6, 90 points) is currently the best wild card point at the Eastern Conference, Canadiens (39-30-9, 87 points) in the second point. Although Montreal has not yet endured – Canadiens can be under various scenarios on Friday – the team can catch the senators and turn their seeds before the end of the normal season next week.
For now, Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis is looking at a larger picture as his team is preparing for the last four normal season matches.
St. “I think it is important to play well at a playoff point,” Louis told journalists on Thursday. ” He said. “It is great if we can jump Ottawa, but I think our focus is to continue to progress.”
Thanks to a six -game win line, which is currently the best in NHL, Montreal is in a position to secure its first playoff offer since 2021. Habs made an amazing run to the Stanley Cup final. The team finished last in the Atlantic Department in each of the last three seasons.
Canadiens is managed by a young core. 25 -year -old Nick Suzuki, with 17 points in the last 12 games heated from the stretch. He experienced many points, scored six goals and added six assists in five of the last six.
The center also manages Montreal with 86 points and is connected to 21 -year -old Defenseman Lane Hutson for the most assists for the 58th Forward Cole Caufield.
At the target, Sam Montembeault won the last five beginnings and did not allow more than two goals in any of these games.
Since 2017, Ottawa won the first playoff dock on Tuesday since 2017, when Montreal defeated Detroit Red Wings 4-1. The senators took place a few minutes after seeing a three-game winner with a 5-2 road defeat against Columbus Blue jackets.
Coach Travis Green joked for 30 seconds to celebrate success. While praising the performance of the team this season, the season should be routine in the coming seasons, he added.
“I think we make our main focal game ready for playoffs.” “The points are still important … We want to finish as high as possible.”
Senators can get a support with the return of Nick Cousins, while the team completes the normal season with a four -game host. The center has been cut with a knee injury since the end of January, but on Thursday, the team returned to the application.
Cousins last summer, Florida Panthers signed last season as a free agent with senators last summer after helped to win the first Stanley Cup.
Defendant Thomas Chabot has a three -game line for Otawa. On Tuesday, he was a target in Columbus and helped, and on Sunday, he made two assists in his 4-0 home win through blue jackets.
The goalkeeper Linus Ullmark won five of the last six, and comes from the fourth closure of the season with a win against Sunday’s Columbus.
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