Okay, okay I’m back.
Although full disclosure, at this point I am 100% convinced that I am the problem. During the first period of last night’s convincing win over the Buffalo Sabres, I was nowhere near a television. It doesn’t happen often but in this case, I didn’t even know what the score was.
By about 7:30, I finally had a chance to check-in and learn that in what was basically an unprecedented start, the Senators had blitzed the Sabres for five unanswered goals.
Well I have good news and I have bad news, depending on where you stand on the whole tanking thing. I am going to be watching the hell out of this game.
The Ottawa Senators host Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night in Ottawa.
Here’s how the Sens are expected to lineup for this one
Tkachuk-Pinto-Batherson
Crookshank-Stutzle-Giroux
Kubalik-Greig-Joseph
Katchouk-Kastelic-Kelly
Sanderson-Zub
Kleven-Brannstrom
Chychrun-Bernard-Docker
Anton Forsberg starts.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM in Ottawa. The game is available on TSN5, on the radio at TSN1200 and all across Al Gore’s internet.
Wondering how these two juggernauts match up and like to receive your hockey intel in neatly arranged columns and rows? Well have I got a HEAD2HEAD table for you!
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 21-46-5 (47 pts) | 31-36-4 (66 pts) |
| Goals For | 2.21 (31st) | 3.21 (14th) |
| Goals Against | 3.56 (29th) | 3.54 (28th) |
| Power Play | 16.2% (27th) | 17.6% (24th) |
| Penalty Kill | 77.1% (22nd) | 73.2% (31st) |
| Shots For | 27.1 (29th) | 32.2 (9th) |
| Shots Against | 32.4 (25th) | 30.1 (17th) |
| Leading Scorers | Bedard-56 pts Kurashev-47 pts Foligno-35 pts Dickinson-33 pts Jones-29 pts |
Stutzle-68 pts Tkachuk-63 pts Giroux-59 pts Batherson-57 pts Chychrun-36 pts |
| Starting Goalies | TBD | TBD |
