There are certain times in the schedule where you just kinda gotta dig deep.
That’s exactly where the Ottawa Senators find themselves right now. The Sens are just three days away from a long and honestly, well-deserved break.
Between the lengthy road trips, bizarre scheduling and recent run of bad luck on the injury front, the Senators have been put through the wringer a little bit recently. Yet they’ve managed to stay afloat. Still not a lot of breathing room in the standings but Ottawa is holding on to that 3rd spot in the Atlantic for dear life. Two more games to go.
The Senators visit the Tampa Bay Lightning again on Thursday night.
They’ll do it without the services of two of their top three centres. Shane Pinto left the game on Tuesday night and while the team is still not saying much about his injury, we know he ain’t playing tonight. He hasn’t been ruled out for Saturday though.
Here’s how Travis Green lined up his remaining hockey players at the Game Day skate. Plan is to go with 11 forwards and 7 defenceman.
Tkachuk-Greig-Giroux
Perron-Stützle-Amadio
Highmore-Ostapchuk-Batherson
Reinhardt-Gaudette
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Jensen
Kleven-Hamonic
Matinpalo
Anton Forsberg gets the start in goal for Ottawa.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM in Tampa Bay. The game is on TSN5, TSN1200 and on streaming sites all across the information super-highway.
