After eight years of watching meaningless regular season games, you think I’d be used to it by now.
The fact is, it is almost unthinkable to me that there are still four regular season games remaining. While some jostling is still possible in the standings and the results down the stretch will ultimately determine who the Senators play in Round One, it’s gonna be hard to focus on these remaining games. If I’m being perfectly honest, it’s hard to focus on anything that isn’t playoff hockey.
The playoff-bound Ottawa Senators play a hockey game on Friday night in the Nation’s Capital.
Lineups and ice time are going to be the story in these last four games. Brady Tkachuk is expected to skate today but there’s obviously no rush to get him back. Maybe one tuneup game at some point but hard to say.
In an ideal world, the Belleville Senators would come up play these last few but the league has rules against such things. We’ll see how Travis Green balances the rust <=> rest equation over the next couple weeks.
Here’s how they lined up at practice…
Perron-Stützle-Batherson
Giroux-Cozens-Zetterlund
Greig-Pinto-Amadio
Highmore-Gaudette-Cousins
Crookshank
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Jensen
Kleven-Matinpalo
Gilbert-Hamonic
No word on a starting goalie just yet.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM at The Tire. Le Tire for our Francophone friends heading to this one. The game is on Sportsnet, TSN1200 and on streaming sites all across the information superhighway. Whilst you wait on gametime, you can get your choice of trusted hockey betting platform ready to go.
Ya know what, this seems like a good time to reward a hard-working toilet seat picture. Get out there HEAD2HEAD table. Show ’em what you can do.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 39-30-9 (87 pts) | 42-30-6 (90 pts) |
| Goals For | 3.00 (15th) | 2.86 (22nd) |
| Goals Against | 3.21 (24th) | 2.79 (10th) |
| Power Play | 20.6% (20th) | 23.1% (13th) |
| Penalty Kill | 80.9% (10th) | 77.6% (20th) |
| Shots For | 25.9 (30th) | 29.2 (9th) |
| Shots Against | 29.0 (24th) | 28.8 (19th) |
| Leading Scorers | Suzuki-86 pts Caufield-67 pts Hutson-64 pts Slafkovsky-48 pts Gallagher-38 pts |
Stutzle-72 pts Batherson-62 pts Tkachuk-55 pts Sanderson-54 pts Giroux-49 pts |
| Starting Goalie | TBD | TBD |
