Monday night Ottawa saw Craig Anderson make 25 saves in a 4-2 win for the Senators over the Boston Bruins.
Craig Anderson picked up the win over the Bruins – file by Lewis Bleiman
Ottawa got goals from Derick Brassard, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Mike Hoffman, and Alexandre Burrows as the Sens improved to 36-22-6.
“It was a big challenge for us tonight, but I think we came out with the right attitude,” Brassard said. “We expected a push from them at the end of the first period, early second, but I thought we stuck with it. We had four lines going and I thought we managed the game really well. We had some short shifts, really intense out there. If we keep doing that, we’re going to be hard to beat.”
The loss was the third for the Bruins in the 11 games under Bruce Cassidy.
“They played their game better than we played ours, in a nutshell. It was a little disappointing at times that we were that stubborn, but then we would get going a little bit. That was it, to me. I thought they played their game better than we wanted to execute our plan,” Cassidy said.
Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins.
“It was like a playoff game. That’s how we took it. That was our motivation,” Pageau said. “All the sacrifices we did, the blocked shots, put somebody in front of their goalie, good box out from our D, good first pass, all the little details made the difference tonight.”
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Tuukka Rask made 25 saves in the loss as the Bruins dropped to 34-26-6.
“I thought they did a really good job standing in front and creating the screens. That was one of the better teams I’ve faced in a long time. They get big bodies moving around and finding open space. We didn’t do a very good job defending a lot of times,” Rask said after the game.
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