GIONTA GETS HIS FIRST GOAL AS CAPTAIN AS THE CANADIENS BEAT THE SENS

(1-3-1) Ottawa Senators 3-4 Montreal Canadiens (3-1-1)
                                      Final

Last night in Montreal, the Canadiens took an early lead with a Goal by their captain Brian Gionta on a breakawy. Then with time winding down in the first period the Senators tied the game with a goal by Milan Michalek. In the second period, it was all montreal until 13 minutes in the Senators took their first shot of the period and scored on it. The goal was scored by Karlsson. Then just a minute later Milan Michalek scored on a backhand to give the Sens a 3-1 lead on just their second shot of Period 2. But the Canadiens didn't give up.

With 7 minutes to play in the period Jeff Halpern's centering pass went off the Senators defensman's skate to put Montreal within 1. Then with 3 minutes left in the second Andrei Kostitsyn skated in pass the defenders and scored to tie the game going into the 3rd. Then with just 4 minutes remaing Kostitsyn skates in and took a shot that was stopped by Elliot but the reabound went right to Plekanec who scored five hole to give the Canadiens the 4-3 lead. That would be the game winner as the Canadiens come from behind and win it 4-3.

In the victory, Carey Price made 16 saves on 19 shots."I didn't face a whole lot of work, but it just shows our guys are working out there to help me," said Price who has started in all 5 of Monteal's games."We battled hard, but we've got to close the game off when we've got a two-goal lead," said Senators defenceman Karlsson. "But I think we're on the right track." In the Sens lose, Brian Elliot made 33 saves on 37 shots and the other Sens golie that played in this game (due to Elliots skated problems) made 3 saves on 3 shots and it was his NHL debut and his name is Lehner. "It was nice for me to have my first little bit of a game played here in the show," Lehner said. "And an extra bonus, I think I'm the youngest Swedish goalie ever to play in the show so I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done more."

The Canadiens played well in this game and they will hope that there will be many more of these kind of games  to come. The Habs next game will be a while from now as they play Thursday night against the Struggiling Devils.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo