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November 10, 2005
Catch-up 11/10
Ken Warren: Martin Havlat isn't expecting any extra attention or nasty crowd reaction when the Senators travel to Boston to play the Bruins tomorrow. It's his first game against Boston since he received a five-game suspension for kicking the Bruins' Hal Gill in the groin on Oct. 15.
"I don't think so, I didn't hurt anyboday and I've done my time," Havlat said. "We'll see what is going to happen (tomorrow), but I think it will be like every other game. Every game is the same. You've got to be aware of other players and players trying to hit you."
Havlat has no intentions of talking or apologizing to Gill about the incident.
"I apologized to my teammates. I did a stupid thing. It was not the smartest thing. I'm not not going to talk to (Gill) unless he wants to talk to me."
Sports Network: Schaefer made it a two-goal game. Havlat came in on the breakaway and beat Raycroft, but his backhander hit the post and wound up in front of the net. Schaefer tapped it in and the shorthanded tally gave the Sens a 3-1 edge.
Havlat made it 4-1 on a two-on-one with Schaefer. Havlat took Schaefer's pass at the right circle and skated to the slot. His wrist shot went over Raycroft's left shoulder with 10:14 left in the second.
Telus: Less than two minutes later, Ottawa scored a shorthanded goal
when Havlat got behind the defense in the neutral zone and put a
backhander off the goalpost that was corraled by Schaefer, who
knocked it home for a 3-1 lead.
"We started to skate a lot more," Havlat said. "We put much
more pressure on their (defense) and we scored some quick goals,
and I think that was the most important (factor)."
Midway through the period, Havlat scored his eighth goal after a
giveaway by blue-liner Nick Boynton. He deked rookie
defenseman Andrew Alberts, drifted left into the slot and beat
Raycroft to the glove side with a wrister.
Posted by jz at November 10, 2005 03:26 PM