Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators face-off in Game 4 of their opening round best-of-seven series as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs live from the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa.
Montreal is looking to sweep away their first round opponent for the second time in as many years while Ottawa is hoping to do what only four teams in history have done by winning four straight games, starting with a victory tonight at home.
The Canadiens have won each game by one goal this series after falling behind 1-0 in the first period of each one. Montreal won Games 1 and 2 at home with a 4-3 triumph followed by a 3-2 overtime victory then took another win in an extra frame in Ottawa Sunday by a 2-1 score.
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The Canadiens defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in four games to open up last year's playoffs and then went all the way to the Eastern Conference Final.
Though it's up 3-0, Montreal will look for a better start to this game.
"We're just going to take the same approach we've taken every game," goaltender Carey Price said per NHL.com "It's all about trying to get off to a good start in this next game, make a push in the first period and go from there."
Price, a favorite to win the Vezina Trophy and possibly even the Hart Trophy, has won all three games in this set thus far while allowing six goals on 98 shots.
The Senators are likely to once again start Craig Anderson after benching Andrew Hammond for Game 3.
Anderson yielded two tallies and turned aside 47 shots in the loss on Sunday.
Dale Weise had a huge game for the Canadiens last time out, beating Anderson for the tying goal late in the third period and then notching the game-winning tally in overtime. Brandon Prust and Torrey Mitchell each collected their third assist of the series in the contest.
Clarke MacArthur was the lone Senator to find the twine in Game 3, his second marker of the postseason, while Erik Karlsson notched an assist to give him a helper in all three games. Bobby Ryan has failed to register a single point thus far in the series.
"That's what our team is," coach Dave Cameron told NHL.com. "We're a balanced hockey club. No disrespect to anybody on my team, but I don't know if we have a pure goal-scorer in that group, so you need contributions from everybody and we got it all year. That's the reason we got in the playoffs."
The Canadiens look to become the first team to advance to the second round with a sweep while the Senators try to stave off elimination when the puck drops on Game 4 of this Round 1 Stanley Cup playoff series live from the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa.
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