Schedule and 2014-15 Results
Regular Season Records: Montreal 50-22-10=110pts, Ottawa 43-26-13=99pts
Game 1 on Wednesday, 15 April: Ottawa loses at Montreal, 4-goals-3
Game 2 on Friday, 17 April: Ottawa loses at Montreal, 3-goals-2 (OT)
Game 3 on Sunday, 19 April: Montreal wins at Ottawa, 2-goals-1 (OT)
Game 4 on Wednesday, 22 April: Montreal loses at Ottawa, 1-goal-nil
Game 5 on Friday, 24 April: Ottawa wins at Montreal, 5-goals-1
Game 6 on Sunday, 26 April: Montreal wins at Ottawa, 2-goals-nil

SERIES NOTES:

After Game 6: The Montreal Canadiens visited and shut out the Ottawa Senators 2-goals-nil to complete a 4-games-2 best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1254 victory. With the series 1254 win, the Montreal Canadiens improve their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record to 77-39 overall and 14-7 in the Preliminary round. With the series 1254 loss, the Ottawa Senators see their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record fall to 9-15 overall and 6-9 in the Preliminary round. The win order for the victorious Montreal Canadiens in series 1254 was WWWLLW: Series 1254 thus becomes the fourth NHL Preliminary-round series, the 11th NHL series (all rounds), and the 22nd MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion.

After Game 5: The Ottawa Senators visited and bested the Montreal Canadiens 5-goals-1 to reduce the Montreal Canadiens best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL series 1254 lead to 3-games-2. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-2, the Montreal Canadiens have a series record of 25-3 and a Game 6 record of 19-9. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-2, the Ottawa Senators have a series record of 0-4 and a Game 6 record of 2-2. Ottawa is thus half-way to a comeback from a three-games-nil deficit.

After Game 4: The Ottawa Senators hosted and shut out the Montreal Canadiens 1-goal-nil to reduce the Montreal Canadiens best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL series 1254 lead to 3-games-1. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-1, the Montreal Canadiens have a series record of 27-0 and a Game 5 record of 21-6. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-1, the Ottawa Senators have a series record of 0-6 and a Game 5 record of 2-4.

After Game 3: The Montreal Canadiens visited and defeated the Ottawa Senators 2-goals-1 in overtime to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1254 lead of 3-games-nil.

After Game 2: The Montreal Canadiens hosted and bested the Ottawa Senators 3-goals-2 in overtime to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1254 lead of 2-games-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-nil, the Montreal Canadiens have a series record of 49-5 and a Game 3 record of 31-23. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-nil, the Ottawa Senators have a series record of 0-8 and a Game 3 record of 4-4.

After Game 1: The Montreal Canadiens hosted and defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-goals-3 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1254 lead of 1-game-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Montreal Canadiens have a series record of 60-11 and a Game 2 record of 54-17. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Ottawa Senators have a series record of 2-10 (with an active five-series losing streak) and a Game 2 record of 4-8. Montreal's first two goals of the game were tallied 15 seconds apart, and were thus the fastest two goals by one team in Game 1 of a best-of-7 NHL playoff series (all rounds) since series 1032, in which the Pittsburgh Penguins hosted the New York Rangers and scored their first two goals 14 seconds apart in Game 1 of their 2008 NHL Quarterfinals series.

Pre-series assessment: In the 2014-15 NHL regular season, the Montreal Canadiens finished 11 points ahead of the Ottawa Senators. From 1939 through the 2014 NHL Finals round, when NHL teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by 11 regular-season points, they have posted a best-of-7 playoff series record of 10-11 (.476) in those series against those opponents. MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1254 is the 116th best-of-7 NHL playoff series for the Montreal Canadiens, and the 24th for the Ottawa Senators. In best-of-7 NHL playoff series, the Montreal Canadiens have an all-rounds series record of 76-39, a Preliminary-round series record of 13-7, and a Game 1 record of 71-44, while the Ottawa Senators have an all-rounds series record of 9-14, a Preliminary-round series record of 6-8, and a Game 1 record of 11-12. Series 1254 is the second best-of-7 NHL playoff series meeting between the Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators. Ottawa defeated Montreal in five games in series 1189, in the 2013 NHL Preliminary round.