Sens teammates laud Pageau's 'legendary' Game 2 performance
Jean-Gabriel Pageau's gameday began with what he thought was too much chicken parm. It ended with his name in the history books.
The Ottawa Senators forward performed in grand fashion Saturday in Game 2, netting four goals - including the overtime winner - to give his club a 2-0 series lead over the New York Rangers.
Pageau got the Sens on the board in the first, then cut his club's two-goal deficit in half with 3:19 to go in the third. He followed up with a hat-trick tally with 1:02 to go, and then iced it in double overtime.
Suffice to say, he was the hero.
"What can I say? The kid is a legend," defenseman Marc Methot told TSN's Ian Mendes postgame.
Methot wasn't alone:
Dion Phaneuf, on four goals for No. 44: "Legendary game."
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"Four goals, that's absolutely sick," head coach Guy Boucher said, according to Bruce Garrioch of The Ottawa Sun. "It couldn't happen to a better person."
Pageau, who scored 12 goals in the regular season, and now has five in the playoffs, is already looking ahead.
"I will remember that for the rest of my life but I don't want to stop there," he said.
Pageau became just the second player in NHL history to score four goals including the overtime winner in a playoff game, and he'll look to somehow top the performance Tuesday in Game 3.