{"id":218072,"date":"2025-10-01T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/218072\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:19:45","slug":"nhl-pre-season-roundup-canadiens-power-play-helps-to-sink-senators-5-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/218072\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL pre-season roundup: Canadiens&#8217; power play helps to sink Senators 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QU\u00c9BEC \u2014 Patrik Laine and Alexandre Carrier scored second-period goals two minutes and 41 seconds apart to lift the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-0 NHL pre-season victory over the Ottawa Senators at the Videotron Centre on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Kapanen, Lane Hutson and Kirby Dach also scored for the Canadiens, who led 1-0 after the first period and 3-0 heading into the third. Brendan Gallagher chipped in with three assists, while Alex Newhook and Ivan Demidov added two helpers apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Dobes made 16 saves to post the shutout for the Canadiens, who went 3-for-10 on the power play. The Senators, who took 102 minutes in penalties, went 0-for-2 with the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Leevi Merilainen stopped 18 of the 23 shots directed at the Senators&#8217; net.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>WILD 3 JETS 2<\/p>\n<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn. \u2014 Marcus Foligno&#8217;s short-handed goal at 14:29 of the second period snapped a 2-2 deadlock and lifted the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 win over the visiting Winnipeg Jets at Grand Casino Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Matt Boldy and Kirill Kaprizov (power play) also scored for the Wild, who were tied 1-1 after the first period and took a 3-2 lead into the third.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Koepke and Vladislav Namestnikov scored for the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day the Wild signed Kaprizov to the richest contract in NHL history at US$136 million over eight years. It will kick in after this season.<\/p>\n<p>Wild netminder Jesper Wallstedt stopped 26 of 28 shot to post the victory. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 16 of 19 shots in the Jets&#8217; net.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild went 1-for-2 on the power play, while the Jets were 0-for-4.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QU\u00c9BEC \u2014 Patrik Laine and Alexandre Carrier scored second-period goals two minutes and 41 seconds apart to lift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[633,1603,974,4260,1171,5,638,909,795,4687,537,502,8380,1336,799,38,21,4,1618,25,640,506,34979,3935,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-218072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alex-newhook","9":"tag-alexandre-carrier","10":"tag-brendan-gallagher","11":"tag-cole-koepke","12":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-ivan-demidov","15":"tag-jakub-dobes","16":"tag-jesper-wallstedt","17":"tag-kirby-dach","18":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","19":"tag-lane-hutson","20":"tag-leevi-merilainen","21":"tag-marcus-foligno","22":"tag-matt-boldy","23":"tag-minnesota-wild","24":"tag-montreal-canadiens","25":"tag-nhl","26":"tag-oliver-kapanen","27":"tag-ottawa-senators","28":"tag-patrik-laine","29":"tag-power-play","30":"tag-videotron-centre","31":"tag-vladislav-namestnikov","32":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115297934646589374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}