Ryan helps Senators beat Canadiens
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Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - Bobby Ryan had one goal and two assists to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 4-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.
Marc Methot, Kyle Turris and Mark Borowiecki added one goal apiece and Clarke MacArthur finished with a pair of assists for the Senators, who have won two straight on the heels of a five-game skid. Robin Lehner made 33 saves in the win.
"We made up some valuable points. That's essentially a four-point game there and we've got a game in hand on a team that's right ahead of us, so I think the thing we'll take from tonight is that we won a divisional game but we took care of our home ice," Ryan said.
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Andrei Markov had the lone goal for the Canadiens, losers in four straight. Carey Price made 20 saves in defeat.
"It's disappointing but at the same time we controlled a lot of that game tonight," Price said. "I think going forward we can build on the way we're playing. We lost two tough games recently and I thought we deserved better."
Markov opened the scoring 12:32 in with his power-play marker from the blue line. After a P.K. Subban shot was stopped, Tomas Plekanec was able to control the rebound before sending it back to Subban. Markov received a cross-ice pass from Subban and blasted the disc into the back of the net.
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It was all Ottawa from there, though.
Ryan answered with a wrister from the slot just 28 seconds later. MacArthur centered a pass to Ryan, who positioned himself in between the circles before tickling the twine for his ninth goal of the season.
Methot put the Sens in front for good 11:31 into the middle stanza when he cleaned up a miss that bounced off Price.
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Borowiecki scored 37 seconds later after one-timing a McArthur feed for a 3-1 Ottawa edge.
Turris' empty-netter with just over a minute remaining accounted for the final difference.
Game Notes
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Ottawa eliminated the Canadiens from the playoffs last season in five games ... Turris has a point in six straight games ... Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson had his five-game point streak snapped.