watching McNiven today, the first period was all OS, they really took it to Oshawa. McNiven wasn't tested much, I missed the PP goal he gave up. But he did make a nice series of saves. In the 2nd he just gave up his 2nd goal of the game, he didn't control the rebound and his defensemen couldn't control it so it got passed right into the slot and the Oshawa player scored with a real bomb of a shot.
edit: Well that game turned around quickly. Went from OS dominating the 1st and had a 4-1 lead, but Oshawa woke up in the 2nd and really brought it. After scoring on a blast to make it 4-2, the scored again on an impressive play as the puck was going past the Oshawa player but he stuck out his leg and deflected the puck to his stick and he was all alone right in front of McNiven so he was able to burry it 5 hole. McNiven then made a great save when the puck was lose and he stuck out his leg to keep it from going in. He stayed down on the ice a long time afterwards, but appears to be ok (although we'll see if he's out there when the 3rd starts). On the other hand he seems ok so I wonder if he just took some extra time since the game was all Oshawa, he already made a smart play when his defensemen got pushed into the net hard, he saw the refs called a penalty but got in between his teammate and the Oshawa player so that the call wasn't evened up.
edit 2: Oh well they lost in 3 on 3 OT. First Oshawa got a PP with 2 minutes in the 3rd when OS was up 4-3 but they were able to tie it up off a rebound as the defensemen didn't tie up his man and had a wide open net. Then in OT it was a lot of back and forth but Oshawa put it home as McNiven got a piece of it. Overall a great game to watch in what looked like was going to be a boring blowout turned into a very exciting game. But not good for McNiven who gives up 5 and while he didn't play bad and had he gotten some help on the others he would have won easily, he made some great saves in the 2nd and 3rd.
interview with him on the Habs site,
http://canadiens.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=869118