Holy moly, talk about a dominant effort. The Senators went into Washington with a mediocre 3-4-1 record. They leave Washington riding high, with their best effort of the season. The offense was great, as shown by their season’s best seven goals. The defense was just as good, as shown by giving up one goal on just 13 shots against. Let’s dive into the details on the Senators 7-1 win against the Capitals.
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Big Nights for Cozens & Batherson
Both Cozens and Batherson score two goals as an assist in tonight’s game. Those were Batherson’s first two goals of the season. For Cozens, they were goals five and six, putting him amongst the best 15 goal scorers in hockey to start the season. These two players need to be putting up 30 or so goals and 60 plus points for the Senators to be seen as true threats in the Eastern Conference. This is the type of game that makes you believe that they can put up those type of season long numbers.
Ullmarks Entertaining Night
Ullmark made just 12 saves tonight. The entertainment came from him skating down the ice in the attempt to fight Charlie Lindgren towards the end of the second period. The refs were quick to break that up, which ended with both goalies receiving two minute penalties for leaving the crease. Nonetheless, this is the type of action that Senators players likely love to see. If your goalie is willing to fight for the team, everyone should follow suit.
Additional Notes
Where to begin? There was Pinto, scoring his league leading eighth goal of the season. How about the veterans Giroux and Perron with two assists each. Also with two assists- Stutzle and Zub. It felt like the Senators hadn’t quite done enough after one. They were clearly the better team, but were only up 1-0. As it turns out, they found their scoring touch in the second on their way to the blowout win. Ridly Greig took a massive hit from Tom Wilson in the second period. Shortly after, Tyler Kleven leveled Ryan Leonard. That was a great answer by Kleven, showing that the Senators can stand up physically, even without Brady Tkachuk.
