Entertaining game? Check
Young players like Batherson and Hogberg standing out? Check
Dramatic 3rd period comeback featuring two shorthanded goals? Check
Ultimately losing to a team lower in the standings? Check
The scoreboard suggests the Senators ended up on the wrong end of last night’s 4-3 final but for the tank-loving type, that was pretty much a dream game.
Zero points would be better but one point is better than two points. What am I even talking about?
Anyway, here’s a video of Brady Tkachuk beating up PK Subban.
The Ottawa Senators are right back at it tonight when they visit Jack Eichel and the forever rebuilding Buffalo Sabres.
Keys to the game you ask? Containing Curtis Lazar.
That’s it really. An old hamburger should do the trick. Seriously though, Lazar has four points in his last four games and might finally be carving out a role for himself in the NHL.
No morning skate today and DJ Smith won’t meet with the media until 4:45 PM so we’ll have to wait on a line up.
Tkachuk-Pageau-Duclair
Namestnikov-Tierney-Brown
Chlapik-Anisimov-Batherson
Ennis-White-Boedker/Sabourin
Chabot-Hainsey
Borowiecki-Zaitsev
Reilly-DeMelo
Craig Anderson is the likely starter tonight but again, we’ll have to wait until later in the day to find out for sure.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM with the game available on TSN5, RDS and maybe a stream will be available but who even knows anymore?
In this time of great uncertainty- no line up, no starting goalie, no streams- the stability of the HEAD2HEAD table will get us through.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 17-23-9 (43 pts) | 22-20-7 (51 pts) |
| Goals For | 2.71 (T-23rd) | 2.94 (19th) |
| Goals Against | 3.33 (29th) | 2.08 (T-16th) |
| Power Play | 12.8% (31st) | 19.2% (19th) |
| Penalty Kill | 81.2% (15th) | 75.3% (26th) |
| Shots For | 29.9 (24th) | 29.6 (26th) |
| Shots Against | 33.6 (29th) | 31.2 (14th) |
| Leading Scorer | Duclair- 33 pts Brown- 32 pts Pageau- 31 pts Tkachuk- 28 pts Ennis- 27 pts |
Eichel- 62 pts Reinhart- 41 pts Olofsson- 35 pts Dahlin- 28 pts Ristoleinen- 23 pts |
| Starting Goalie | Craig Anderson 6-12-1 3.32 GAA, .897 sv% |
Linus Ullmark 16-13-3 2.70 GAA, .914 sv% |
