" NHL Highlights | Canadiens vs. Senators - January 17, 2026"

Welcome to Ottawa as Hockey Day becomes Hockey Night in Canada. Sanderson up with the puck. He'll get it into the Canadian zone. Suzuki after Hickory. Through the crease. Demidov. Centered. It goes off the scale. And Maryland in at the bucket. Caulfield again. Canadians buzzing. Caulfield for Suzuki. Holds on. Checked by two. Got it back to Caulfield. Harper Slapkowski scores! Uri Slapkowski with his 60th career goal and 150th career point. Lights the lamp first in Ottawa. Trochek who takes the penalty in New York on the offensive zone. Ottawa lit them up early. And now you take a penalty in the offensive zone. And all of a sudden Montreal gets... Got it ahead to Lars Eller. Eller kicked it around in Hudson. Anderson takes a hit from Nick Cousins. Here's Jensen. Both are struggling. They bring up Fowler. Fowler kind of seals it early. Gets a couple of wins. Now, he wasn't winning as much at the end as Kelly was talking about. But you know what? The other guys started playing better. Scores! A turnover in the slot. And the Canadians make it a 2-0 game. Thanks to Zachary Volter. To me, if I'm... If I had to make a choice, I would say it looks like it's offside. That was a quick decision. Here's Francis Charon. After coach's challenge, a bit of review. The play was deemed to be offside. We have no goal. Turn feed. Suzuki waiting. Caulfield for Suzuki. Fanned on it. Volteru trying to get in his way. Montreal. ...position to squeeze this puck off along the wall. On the fan by Suzuki. There. He leans into him right there. But Suzuki ends up winning the battle for the puck. And then Chabot gets too close to it. As the battle's going on, Chabot is going to get uptight right there. You see him in the picture. And they don't win that battle. And now all of a sudden, you got a 2-on-1 coming down to the net. If Chabot just sits off a little bit and waits, he could contain the area a little bit more. Sanderson. Quickly into the canyon. It's all right to the net. Stop. Come on to the rebound. Kachat scores! Bernie Kachat. And what a job by Jake Sanderson. He just is blowing up the ice. He backs everybody off. And then he goes, You know what? I have a crack at this. I'll take it right to the net. And he does. Giroux comes in, because everybody from the Canadiens kind of peels off. And Giroux redirects this puck back across to Kachat. And Montembeault makes the read. Keller. Brings it back. The Cousins will dump it in. Dukes up. On the puck. He's got room. That's just dirty. That is... Wow. They don't look at it as a disadvantage whatsoever. Stutzler goes in with Carrier. And wins the battle for the puck. As he pulls it out, it goes back through his legs. And then up on the short side, over the stick side of Montembeault. And this is just taking what they give you. And by putting the puck backwards through his legs, he protects it from anybody poking it off his stick, like Devidoff is coming in. Back for Matheson. He'll throw it to the net. Kicked up by Marolina. Anderson is on it. He'll shoot. Scores! Josh Anderson snaps it home. And the Canadiens get their lead right back. What a bounce-back shift for the Montreal Canadiens. I gotta tell you, Bart, I have a seeing-eye view of that shot coming off of Anderson's stick, short side of the net. And I watch that thing go right in. The shot comes to the net. Here's the rebound. Anderson's gonna walk into the middle. Look at the traffic. You've got Gallagher and Jensen together, as Deddo just fanned on that one off the rebound. And good retrieval by Montreal. And then it's a quick snapshot. And when that thing left his stick, you could see from my vantage point, you could see it. Giroux. What a point. Sanderson at the line. Down into the corner for Stutzle. Up high. Chance for Cousins. Scores! Dylan Cousins ties it at three. Nice job by Sanderson at the blue line to keep this in. It gets dumped back and gets pointed out. He's got Evans all over him. So he lobs it in. Stutzle knocks it out of the air as it's going around the glass and then settles it down and lays it out in the slot to Cousins. And he doesn't make a mistake. He's got some traffic in front of Montevaux and he just pulls the trigger on it. Stops up with it. Right eye. Sanderson has got it. Feeds it over to Giroux. Thrown towards the net. It's in the goal! They score! Should have been a call. He was yelling at the referee. The puck moves down the other end and then this little wrist shot to the net is going to get by to the right of Montevaux. And as it's bouncing along, it either hits Dobson or Perron. It's hard to tell. This one might show us a little more. Oh, it got off Perron's stick, I think. I think Perron got a stick on that. The veteran, the KG veteran. Now a wing watch by Jensen. To the line. Dobson on it. Dobson shot. Off the leg of Craig. He'll race after it. Chabot and Pinto join the rush. Craig drops. Sanderson shoots. Scores! Marvelous job after that first goal. A shot tried to get through by Dobson gets blocked by Greg. Now it's a two-on-one, but Chabot comes out of the box. So it's a three-on-one and nobody really thinks about it being a four-on-two, which is Sanderson's joining this thing. And good on Sanderson to jump on in this play. A lot of players will see the three-on-one taking place and they'll just watch it happen. Not Sanderson. He gets up in the play and he ends up being the guy that Greg decides to drop. Got a real low pulse to play in high-anxiety situations. To no one. The toss goes! Hudson shot tipped in front. Indians are within one as they get the goal with an empty on a deflection by Juraj Slepkowski. You got to win the face-off. That's the key. You got to win the draw. You got to win the- Oh, Deneau, excuse me. Deneau wins the draw and then here comes the shot to the net. The tip by Slepkowski. He's a bit higher up than expected, but Hudson does the right thing. He can't wait very long. This shot's got to come to the net quickly. So he's not going to get as much mustard on it because his weight is shifting over, but he gets enough on it to get it to the net and Slepkowski- Jensen at the point, kept it in. Hudson is on a long pass up at center. Anderson will back his way in the Ottawa zone. Chopping at it with Kachuk. Here's Demidov with it. Demidov- Simply step up to play this. Here's the indirect. Look at Chabot. He steps up and goes by Anderson. Like you're defending a one-goal lead. You got to stay underneath him. I understand you want to step up and intercept the puck, but you have to contain Anderson. Don't let him in the zone. And then Carrier follows the play up. Rips this thing top shelf. A bit of a flutter, but nonetheless, it finds the top of the- For Matheson. Matheson shooting. Lose puck in front now, and then down a great chance for Nick Suzuki. Couldn't lift it over the goal tenner. Kachuk will fire it down the ice, and this game will go to overtime. It's Anderson. Off the boards, close. Giroux has got it. Caulfield hustling back. Trying to get Moran. Giroux's pass. He put it over to Stutzle and he fanned on it. 2-on-1 Canadians. Caulfield tees it up. Scores! Mr. Saturday Night is the hero, and overtime again, and the Canadians win it 6-5. I think Dobson might have got a piece of it. There's the stretch pass to Caulfield. Sanderson is taking away the one-timer to Suzuki. He knows his goal tenner will have no chance on that one, so he lets the shot come. Marilinen gets a piece of it, and this thing is going to squeeze through him and into the net, and Mr. Saturday Night, who leads the league with 21 Saturday Night goals, finishes this one off for the Montreal Canadiens.