Carey Price in his element for Canadiens

While many Habs fans were biting their fingernails or wringing their hands due to stress during the final minute of Game 6 between the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators Sunday, goaltender Carey Price was in his element.

"That's what it's all about, that's what makes it so much fun. You know, ever since you're a little kid you dream of being in those types of situations and tonight we found a way to succeed," said Price after Montreal's series-clinching 2-0 win over the Senators.

Price has had more than his share of special performances for the Canadiens this season, and he was in top form in Game 6.

After getting the lead in the first thanks to a goal by Brendan Gallagher, the Habs only managed seven shots the rest of the way, and one of those was on Max Pacioretty's empty-net goal.

The Senators threw everything they had at the Canadiens, at times the ice seemed tilted toward Price. When the final whistle blew, however, Price had turned away 43 shots.

The Senators aren't a team that gets shut out. In fact, Sunday night's game was the first time they didn't score all year. That's 82 regular-season games and five playoff games that the Senators found a way to get a goal.

But not tonight.

"They played a heck of a series, that is a good team over there," Price admitted.

There was a little luck involved, too. In the second period a quick whistle took away what should have been a goal for Senators forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau.

"I'll take it," Price said about the call.

Senators fans are right to feel short-changed by the referee.

But after the way the team battled just to make the playoffs, and then made the Canadiens sweat in a series where Montreal held a commanding 3-0 series lead, it somehow seems only fitting that it would take a game like this to take the Senators down.

For the Habs, they're now off to Round 2, but it's not all rosy. There are plenty of concerns: the power play is still sputtering and the usually reliable Andrei Markov looks like a shadow of himself.

But those "pesky Sens" are no longer a concern for Montreal.

Habs coach Michel Therrien said after the victory that there is nothing wrong with adversity. The players echoed Therrien's sentiments.

Price, cool as always, reacted well and lifted his team into the second round.

It might not have been poetry, but just like Price's response to the quick whistle that prevented Pageau's goal, Habs fans will "take it."