The term “measuring stick” gets thrown around a lot in professional sports.
It refers to those rare in-season opportunities where you get a chance to see how you match up against the best of the best. And while the Colorado Avalanche may not sit at the top of the league in the standings, they are at or right near the top of most lists of Stanley Cup favourites. We’ll see how the Sens measure up tonight.
The Ottawa Senators host the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night in Ottawa. And they’ll do it in their fancy new shirts.
One change to the lineup as Sammy Blais draws in for the injured Nick Cousins. Cousins is out seven to ten days after that hit the other night. Some good news on the injury front too though as the Sens have their starting goalie back!
Here’s how Travis Green is going to line ’em up.
Zetterlund-Stutzle-Cozens
Tomasino-Pinto-Batherson
Amadio-Greig-Giroux
Blais-Halliday-Hodgson
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Spence
Kleven-Matinpalo
Linus Ullmark starts.
Puck drops at 7:08 PM. Game is on TSN5, TSN1200 and on all your favourite illegal streaming sites across the world wide web.
A closer look at this evening’s match-up via the HEAD2HEAD table.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 11-6-2 (24 pts) | 11-6-2 (24 pts) |
| Goals For | 4.11 (1st) | 3.05 (17th) |
| Goals Against | 3.04 (14th) | 3.00 (12th) |
| Power Play | 22.6% (12th) | 12.5% (31st) |
| Penalty Kill | 78.6% (13th) | 76.5% (20th) |
| Shots For | 30.4 (3rd) | 25.8 (25th) |
| Shots Against | 27.4 (15th) | 26.8 (13th) |
| Leading Scorers | MacKinnon-30 pts Necas-24 pts Makar-23 pts Lehkonen-18 pts Toews-18 pts |
Stutzle-23 pts Batherson-18 pts Pinto-14 pts Amadio-11 pts Giroux-11 pts |
| Starting Goalie | Scott Wedgewood 1-3-1 4.03 GAA, .867 sv% |
Linus Ullmark 7-1-0 1.33 GAA, .945 sv% |