13 games to go.
Even though the Ottawa Senators have been one of the league’s hottest teams, it feels like that gap remains stuck in the three to five point range. And that’s because every time the Sens win, everyone else does too. No cursed out-of-town scoreboard watching tonight though because the Sens are the only game in town.
The Senators visit the New York Rangers on Monday night at Madison Square Garden.
One change to the lineup this evening as Dennis Gilbert joins the list of walking wounded on the Ottawa blueline. Lassi Thomson takes his spot. Plenty of forward juggling the last couple games so would not be surprised to see this shift a little bit…
Batherson-Stützle-Giroux
Tkachuk-Cozens-Greig
Cousins-Pinto-Amadio
Foegele-Eller-Zetterlund
Chabot-Zub
Kleven-Spence
Thomson-Matinpalo
James Reimer starts.
Puck drops just a shade after 7:30 PM. The game is available on Amazon Prime and on the radio at TSN1200 and 104.7 FM. Brave internet pirates will be stealing from Jeff Bezos and sharing the links a little closer to game time.
A closer look at this evening’s match-up via the HEAD2HEAD table.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 36-24-9 (81 pts) | 28-33-9 (65 pts) |
| Goals For | 3.35 (9th) | 2.79 (26th) |
| Goals Against | 3.09 (21st) | 3.19 (23rd) |
| Power Play | 22.9% (10th) | 24.2% (7th) |
| Penalty Kill | 74.6% (30th) | 77.6% (24th) |
| Shots For | 29.0 (8th) | 15.2 (29th) |
| Shots Against | 24.1 (1st) | 29.5 (25th) |
| Leading Scorers | Stutzle-72 pts Batherson-61 pts Cozens-51 pts Sanderson-48 pts Tkachuk-47 pts |
Zibanejad-67 pts Trocheck-48 pts Lafreniere-47 pts Miller-41 pts Fox-37 pts |
| Starting Goalie | James Reimer 5-3-1 2.44 GAA, .884 sv% |
Igor Shesterkin 22-14-6 2.53 GAA, .912 sv% |