Saturday night\u0027s matchup with the Canucks is another in a long run of must\u002Dwin games if they hope to have any chance at the playoffs.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s ugly or it’s nice, you’ve just got to find a way to get the points. Everybody was pretty dialled in.”
While many wrote the Senators off a couple of months ago, they have gone 17-10-1 in the 28 games since Jan. 1. Even so, they’ll have to step up that pace to 12-5-1 in the final 18 games if they want to get to 95 points. With the puck out of reach of defencemen Travis Hamonic and Jake Sanderson, Senators right-winger Claude Giroux clears it out of the crease area during the third period of Thursday’s game against the Kraken.Head coach D.J. Smith and his staff found a recipe for success, but there are still hurdles ahead. The good news is that the Senators have leapfrogged four teams that ranked ahead of them less than a month ago and were in ninth place in the East as of Friday morning.
“I thought we just showed good resilience,” said veteran defenceman Nick Holden, who had two assists. “They’re a good team, they showed that, and they even took the lead. We just stuck to our game and got the result we wanted.Article content
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