No one wants to give up a hat trick to start out anything, but that’s where the Montreal Canadiens found themselves against the Ottawa Senators.
The first period was scoreless but still had somethings to pay attention to. As fate would have it, Nick Suzuki quickly made his presence known on the ice making crisp plays, but what stood out the most, in my opinion, was his impact on the team’s zone entries.
Whether it was by breaking the puck into the zone himself or finding a teammate ahead, the Habs were able to enter the zone more and more as the period continued and Suzuki was behind a lot of it.