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    Mike Condon makes glowing first impression on Senators with shutout

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    Mike Condon makes glowing first impression on Senators with shutout Empty Mike Condon makes glowing first impression on Senators with shutout

    Post by jedi17 Sat 05 Nov 2016, 8:01 pm

    Mike Condon makes glowing first impression on Senators with shutout
    Senators 1, Canucks 0
    It was a perfect start for Mike Condon.
    Less than 24 hours after arriving in Ottawa, the newly-acquired goaltender landed in the Senators’ net and immediately played the role of Zero Hero.
    The conversation Senators GM Pierre Dorion and coach Guy Boucher had with Condon Thursday morning was short and to the point.
    “They just said I’m playing tonight,” Condon said before facing the Vancouver Canucks. “Whatever happens after that happens.”
    Couldn’t have scripted it better himself.
    Picked up from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick, there was no time to waste for Condon. With Craig Anderson granted a leave of absence to be with his ill wife Nicholle, the Senators opted to give Condon the start in a 1-0 shutout win over the Canucks at the Canadian Tire Centre.


    With a sparse gathering of 13,260 on hand, Condon made 27 stops on the Canucks — who have been shut out in four of their past five games — to have a debut to remember while Mike Hoffman’s second of the season turned out to be the winner in what was sometimes a dull game.
    “The guys played their hearts out in front of me and they really showed their character,” said Condon, who became the first Ottawa goalie to post a shutout in his debut since Anderson did it with 47 saves in a 1-0 shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Feb. 19, 2011.
    “(The first) two periods with 15 shots kind of gave me a chance to get my groove, especially after a transcontinental flight (Wednesday), so it felt really good to get the win. Why would I be surprised? When I got picked up on waivers and went to Pittsburgh, it’s just a daily test of faith and I knew I’d get rewarded for it.”
    This was probably the ideal game for Condon to make his first start with the Senators. He didn’t face a whole lot from the Canucks until the third period when they pressed a bit and that was probably good because the Senators weren’t getting many offensive chances on Jacob Markstrom, either.
    Condon made a glove stop on Sven Baertschi and halted Jannik Hansen twice late in the third, including on a breakaway.
    Change is nothing new for Condon. He has bounced around during his career and was with the Penguins as a waiver pickup with Matt Murray injured to start the season. He can just add this one to his list of debuts.
    “(He) was very good, very calm and as advertised,” said Boucher. “I was expecting nervous but our goalie coach (Pierre Groulx) had said he’d be calm and that’s exactly what he was throughout the entire game. They had their big push and that’s where he had to be at his best.
    “The team had done a terrific job shutting them down and keeping the scoring chances down. We had to do that.”
    Through 40 minutes, the Senators were clinging to a 1-0 lead on the Canucks, who are having a terrible time scoring goals. There wasn’t a lot to write home about for the Senators but they were ahead on the scoreboard while having a difficult time against a team that played 24 hours earlier in Montreal.
    The Senators opened the scoring at 14:42 of the second on what was a terrible gaffe by Markstrom. He left his net to try to poke a puck away in the slot, but fell and left Hoffman, one of the league’s purest goal scorers, all alone with an empty net and he deposited it home to give Ottawa a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
    “I was just trying to forecheck and, all of a sudden, I had a mini-breakaway,” said Hoffman. “I was going to try to drop it to Bobby (Ryan) initially. The goalie came out and pokechecked and I knew I had open net so I just tried to get it away as quick as I could.”
    That better start didn’t exactly materialize, but neither team looked very good in a scoreless tie in the first period, for that matter. While the Senators outshot the Canucks by a 9-6 count, there wasn’t a whole lot of great scoring chances on either Condon or Markstrom.
    Blueliner Marc Methot noted this is the way the Senators want to play.
    “We’re night and day defensively now with our new system and guys are buying in,” Methot said. “We’re much more disciplined now. Defensively guys are blocking shots and getting in the way because we know how important now, after missing the playoffs and being inconsistent, how important it’s to do all those little things out there.”
    It helps when you’re getting the stops, as well.
    “(Condon) was fantastic,” said Methot.

    The Senators host the Buffalo Sabres on Hockey Fights Cancer Night on Saturday at 7 p.m.
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