Ottawa Senators. Toronto Maple Leafs. Game 7. Well...the seventh game of the 2020-21 season. Each team had won three times in this season series, so it sort of counts!
The Senators came into tonight going 3-0-2 in their last five games and had won the last meeting against the Leafs on March 14th, 4-3. They had played the night before in a win against the Flames, and they had been much worse on the second half of back-to-back games this season.
The first period against Toronto wasn’t too eventful for a game between two rivals, although the refs missed one of the funniest things you’ll see: the Senators played with six skaters for a good 10 seconds:
Ottawa was extremely lucky to get out of that without a penalty, although they still went to the box three times in the first period, twice thanks to Thomas Chabot.