The Ottawa Senators lost Sunday's series-ending Game 6 to the Montreal Canadiens by a score of 2-0, marking the first time Ottawa has been shut out in the past 130 games, per Sportsnet Stats.
Despite struggling last season and throughout the better part of 2014-15, the Senators previously had not suffered a shutout since losing 5-0 to the Boston Bruins on Dec. 27, 2013.
Of course, while that stretch does include Ottawa's torrid final two months of the 2014-15 regular season, it also includes the team's lousy first four months of the campaign as well as the final three-and-a-half months of a 2013-14 season that ended with a middling 37-31-14 record and no playoff appearance.
The impressive streak wasn't an easy one to stop, as Canadiens goaltender Carey Price made 43 saves to hold the Senators scoreless in Sunday's deciding Game 6, getting a bit of help from the referees along the way.
Six minutes and 55 seconds into the second period, it briefly appeared that Senators center Jean-Gabriel Pageau had scored a game-tying putback goal to take advantage of Price's rare mistake.
Unfortunately for Ottawa, an early whistle from re ...
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