Game Day- Senators Host Panthers in Final Home Game

SensChirp April 28, 2022 0
Game Day- Senators Host Panthers in Final Home Game

The last home game of the season.

There are always mixed feelings that go along with it. Six months without live Sens hockey is just too long, for starters. At the same time, over the past few years anyway, there’s a bit of relief. Another long losing season is finally reaching an anticlimactic finale.

Except this year feels different. This is a team just hitting its stride and really, playing some of their best hockey of the year. Having the opportunity to watch Tim Stützle, Josh Norris, Drake Batherson, Brady Tkachuk and Thomas Chabot on a nightly basis- and especially lately- has been a treat. Worth the price of admission. And it’s a damn shame it’s coming to an end.

The Ottawa Senators host the Florida Panthers in their last home game of the season tonight at the Canadian Tire Centre.

Here’s how the Sens are expected to line up for this one.

Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Formenton-Stützle-Gaudette
Kelly-Gambrell-Watson
Tierney-Kastelic-Sabourin

Chabot-Hamonic
Brannstrom-Zub
Holden-Zaitsev

Filly Franchise gets the start in goal for the home side.

Tonight’s game is available on TV, radio and on the internet. As great as those options sound, the real play is heading down to the CTC, cheering on the home side, drinking two to five more beer than you had planned and buying a handful of 50/50 tickets even though you know if you ever won that stupid draw, you’d probably get way too excited and end up spending more than you won.

Anyway, here’s the HEAD2HEAD table.

HEAD2HEAD
Record 57-17-6 (120 pts) 32-41-7 (71 pts)
Goals For 4.14 (1st) 2.75 (24th)
Goals Against 2.90 (12th) 3.23 (22nd)
Power Play 24.4% (7th) 19.5% (20th)
Penalty Kill 79.5% (15th) 80.7% (13th)
Shots For 37.4 (1st) 30.0 (20th)
Shots Against 30.6 (9th) 33.5 (27th)
Leading Scorers Huberdeau- 115 pts
Barkov- 88 pts
Reinhart- 80 pts
Giroux- 65 pts
Duclair- 57 pts
Ekblad- 57 pts
Tkachuk- 65 pts
Stützle- 57 pts
Norris- 54 pts
Batherson- 44 pts
Brown- 39 pts
Starting Goalie Spencer Knight
18-9-3
2.89 GAA, .905 sv%
Filip Gustavsson
5-11-1
3.52 GAA, .893 sv%