Let’s try this again, shall we?
After a dreadful performance on Monday night in Chicago, the Ottawa Senators are in desperate need of a bounce back effort. In a season full of ups and downs, that was pretty clearly a low point. And it came on the heels of one of their best games of the season against the Dallas Stars.
The Senators will look to right the ship as they wrap up a three-game road trip with a stop in Minnesota.
DJ Smith just wrapped up his media availability and as expected, there are a couple changes to the Ottawa lineup. Austin Watson and Michael Del Zotto are in while Dylan Gambrell and Nick Holden come out.
Here’s how the Senators are expected to line ’em up for this one.
Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Stützle-Paul-Brown
Formenton-Tierney-Ennis
Sanford-Shaw-Watson
Chabot-Zub
Del Zotto-Zaitsev
Mete-Brown
Puck drop is scheduled for just after 8:00 PM. The game is available on TSN5, RDS2 and on TSN1200. Links to shady internet streams shall be distributed closer to game time.
A closer look at this evening match-up via the HEAD2HEAD table.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 3-5-0 (6 pts) | 5-3-0 (10 pts) |
| Goals For | 2.50 (21st) | 2.75 (T-16th) |
| Goals Against | 3.13 (20th) | 3.25 (T-23rd) |
| Power Play | 23.1% (13th) | 19.2% (19th) |
| Penalty Kill | 72.7% (26th) | 73.5% (T-24th) |
| Shots For | 29.3 (T-25th) | 34.9 (3rd) |
| Shots Against | 32.8 (23rd) | 29.5 (8th) |
| Leading Scorers | Batherson- 8 pts Norris- 6 pts Brown- 5 pts Ennis- 5 pts Stützle- 4 pts |
Zuccarello- 7 pts Foligno- 6 pts Kaprizov- 6 pts Dumba- 5 pts Walz- 4 pts |
| Starting Goalie | Filip Gustavsson 2-1-0 2.23 GAA, .932 sv% |
Cam Talbot 5-2-0 2.55 GAA, .912 sv% |
