Big Win for Montreal in SO

This is exactly what Montreal needs going into home match up against Boston: a win. Not as many mistakes as we have seen in the games before, however, there are still a few headaches that need to be sorted out. The puck is taking too long to get out of their end. The transition game has to be much quicker and to do that, passes need to be much more accurate. Nevertheless, a good win for Montreal given the current circumstances that they are under.
The Sens' started the game as Montreal should have done for the past 3 weeks: flying. They were winning the one-on-one battles, finishing their checks and the fore checking was superb. All that hard work payed off when sniper Dany Heatley finished a scramble in front of the net for his 11th of the season. Later in the period on the powerplay, the Lang-Koivu-Kovalev line showed us just how hard they have been working in practise on the powerplay. Koivu received a pass from Kovy, and wrapped around the side of the net to slide his 7th underneath Auld's pads. It's now the second goal in two games on the powerplay for this line. The period ended 1-1.
There was no scoring in the second period, but Carey Price stopped what should have been a gimme. He slid along the ice and stretched out his pad to just deny the Ottawa player from taking the lead.
Foligno scored the go-ahead goal for Ottawa on the PP. It was a penalty taken by Ryan O'Byrne, who has taken many penalties thus far... Later in the game, Montreal was in desperate need for a goal. Finally, after receiving his own rebound, Markov slapped in a rocket from the point to tie the game. At this point, the game was Montreal's to lose. They were putting on the pressure by creating scoring chances, taking lots of shots and moving the puck around really well. The game could have easily gone Ottawa's way when Latendresse took a high-sticking penalty right before the end of regulation, but Montreal managed to kill off the penalty in OT.
Off to the shootout. Spezza marked on the first shot of the shootout followed by a miss by Kovalev. Price then flashed the pad on captain Daniel Alfredsson, followed by a Markov goal through the legs of Auld along the ice. Ruutu went up next for Ottawa but was completly robbed by Price when he gloved it, this was followed by a Koivu miss. Vermette couldn't maintain control of the puck and missed the net completely. So now, a chance to win for Tanguay. He took the puck up the ice, and brought it to his backhand, and glided, and glided in until he slid it right through the pads of Alex Auld to win? Are you kidding me? How did Tanguay even score that? Well, I'll take that any day, but Montreal wins on one of the lamest penalty shot winners I have ever seen.

Notes: Koivu now is tied in the lead with Tanguay for most points on Montreal with 17... Sergei Kostitsyn added two assists tonight (he now has 9 points)... Price made 21 saves... Lapierre was scratched for the third game straight.