The Rangers won Game 7 the way they’ve won so often this season, with a defence-first philosophy, getting just enough offence and withstanding surges thanks to solid goaltending and great shot blocking.
Even the most unexpected joy ride can end suddenly, with a thud. So it was in Manhattan Thursday night when the plucky Ottawa Senators, contenders in this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series until the last drop of the puck, fell in seven games to the New York Rangers.
Hundreds of Canadian New Yorkers are expected to watch the last Canadian hockey team standing Thursday, just blocks away from the site of game seven between the Ottawa Senators and the New York Rangers.
The Ottawa Senators take on the New York Rangers in Game 7 of their quarterfinal series. Which team will come out on top? Our prediction panel weighs in.
Join Citizen sports editor James Gordon and hockey writer and columnist Ken Warren at 11 a.m. to discuss the deciding game in Ottawa’s first-round series against New York.
Fans of the Ottawa Senators have already been smacked upside the head by Game 7.
The stage is big and the stakes are enormous, but the equation couldn’t be much simpler as the Ottawa Senators left Scotiabank Place for Thursday’s Game 7 against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.