Paul MacLean didn’t pretend otherwise.
He knew goaltender Ben Bishop stole two points for the Ottawa Senators in Monday’s 2-1 shootout victory over the Montreal Canadiens.
Ben Bishop wasn’t overly excited about being named the NHL’s third star of last week Monday morning.
Go figure, hockey experts.
The Eastern Conference-leading Montreal Canadiens are at Scotiabank Place Monday night, sporting a sparkling road record of 4-1-1, undefeated in their past three games away from Montreal. Meanwhile, the red-hot and injury-depleted Ottawa Senators, who have won four consecutive games and own a brilliant home record of 8-1-2, can pull into a tie with Montreal with a victory
Ottawa Senators winger Erik Condra was searching Friday for the ideal way to sum up the latest developments for the injury-plagued team.
Early in his tenure as Ottawa Senators coach, Paul MacLean said that young NHL players must learn that having a great game once in a while isn’t enough. MacLean said that incoming players have to remember the best game they had in junior and duplicate it every night in the big leagues.
Daniel Alfredsson ends the Senators’ goal-scoring drought and Ottawa ends its losing slide with a 2-1 shootout victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday.
Eleven games into the NHL season and Ben Bishop is still in training camp.
Well, at least that’s the way the Ottawa Senators back-up goaltender is choosing to look at his long waiting game to get off the bench and see some shots in an actual game.