Oilers’ Gerber Gets 4-1 Win Over Senators

Added on Nov 30, 2010 by J Merrill in

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Martin Gerber is happy to have this win under his belt for his first game back home. The Edmonton Oilers managed to beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1. The former Ottawa goalie won for the second time in two starts for Edmonton since he was recalled from Oklahoma City of the AHL. He spent last season in Russia.

Gerber, who played three seasons with Ottawa, backing up Ray Emery when the Senators reached the Stanley Cup finals in 2007, Said “It’s definitely nice to have this one, It’s always emotional to play somewhere you’ve been around for a while and it was really great to see the guys out there compete and, for most of the game, we had a good game.”

After the Senators were able to get the scoring going in the first, it was Tom Gilber (in the second) and Andrew Cogliano (in the third) who got the game going for the Oilers. Cogliano said of Gerber “He’s obviously played here and this is a big game for him. The games that he’s been in, we’ve produced well in front of him. He was in the game all game, and we came out in the third and got a couple of goals, which was nice.”

Cogliano deflected Brule’s shot from the point past Brian Elliott to give Edmonton a 2-1 lead at 4:19 into the third. Also, Brule tapped home Cogliano’s centering pass at 12:48 to put the Oilers up 3-1. Dustin Penner assisted on both goals. Cogliano said “I feel comfortable with Pens and Bru, I feel like we did a good job defensively all night playing against some pretty good guys in Mike Fisher and Alex Kovalev, and we were patient…I think that’s the most important thing, patient with the game and did a good job in the third.”

Brian Elliott stopped 21 shots for Ottawa, which lost for the third time in the past four games and has just two wins in its last eight. In the past ten games, they have only managed to score more then twice , and have only won 3 of those contests.”We came out pretty strong and scored the first goal, that’s what you want to do ahead of the game,” Elliott said. “But it kind of looked like we got into a lull there then we took a bunch of penalties in the second period and we got tired-out killing all of those. It’s not the kind of effort we want on any given night and they kept coming and they took their chances and scored.”

The Edmonton Oilers (7-12-4, 18pts) will face the Montreal Canadiens (15-8-1, 31pts) on Wednesday night, and the Ottawa Senators (11-13-1, 23pts) will face the San Jose Sharks (11-7-4, 26pts) on Thursday.