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Artturi Lehkonen’s disallowed goal provided Montreal with the spark they couldn’t muster on their own

The Montreal Canadiens opened the scoring early in the first, but the Ottawa Senators immediately responded, and the game settled into a lull with few completed passes, let alone dangerous scoring chances. Despite a few battles between Brady Tkachuk and Brendan Gallagher, the game was largely emotionless, which is a rare occurence in the recent history of this rivaly.

Clearly the better team, the Habs controlled the pace despite only firing on a few cylinders. Yet a goal from the Senators in the second period seemed to remove what little will the Canadiens had to pull off a third consecutive win over the club.