Numbers Game: Senators @ Canadiens

MONTREAL - Here's a numerical look at Saturday night's game against the Ottawa Senators at the Bell Centre.

3 - This was the third game in 12 days between the two teams. Montreal took the first two during the sequence, beating Ottawa 5-2 in a home-at-home series last week. This is the fourth and final meeting this season between the Atlantic division rivals. The Habs lost the first contest 4-3 in overtime back on October 20 in Ottawa.
600- The Habs' win was head coach Claude Julien's 600th in the NHL. He currently ranks 18th all-time in the category among the League's bench bosses. He is the fifth active coach to reach the plateau; Ken Hitchcock, Barry Trotz, Paul Maurice, and Mike Babcock are the others. Julien holds a 134-120-10-34 record in 298 games coached over two stints with the Canadiens.
2 - Number of consecutive games in which Matthew Peca has scored a goal. The centerman lit the lamp for the second time since returning to the lineup on Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes. Peca also added an assist in the third period and now has 10 points (3G, 7A) in 24 games this season.

6 - Number of hits dished out by Brendan Gallagher in the first, matching his personal high in a game in just one period. Gallagher finished the game with 7 hits on the Sens.
3 - Number of shots against the Canadiens allowed in the second period. The Sens registered only 11 shots on net in the first 40 minutes of play. The Habs, meanwhile, launched the puck at Ottawa goalie Mike McKenna in the middle frame and had 28 shots in total through two periods.
5 - With an assist on Jesperi Kotkaniemi's fourth goal of the season, defenseman Jeff Petry extended his points streak to five games. Petry has seven points (4G, 3A) in that span.

9 - Number of times Phillip Danault has finished a game with at least a 60% success rate in the faceoff dot this season. The Habs pivot took the most draws of anyone on the ice on Saturday, and won 67% of them. Danault also thought he had scored the Habs' go-ahead goal in the third period when the game was tied at 2-2, but the goal was waved off because coincidental minors had been called against Thomas Chabot (hooking) and Artturi Lehkonen (embellishment). He did earn an assist on Shea Weber's go-ahead goal with 9:54 to play, however - his third assist in two games.
4 - Number of goals captain Shea Weber has in nine games this season, which places him second in scoring among defensemen on the Canadiens. Only Jeff Petry sits above him, with seven markers in 2018-19.

7 - Andrew Shaw was credited with an assist on the Weber tally. The helper allowed Shaw to keep his points streak alive, now at seven games. He has seven points (2G, 5A) during the string.