While circumstantial evidence supports the argument that the Ottawa Senators may have lost multiple times during their recent road trip, I am limiting my review of this painful losing streak to the loss that occurred in Los Angeles.
So while the standings may suggest the Ottawa Senators have lost five straight and have just one win in their last one million games, it turns out they have only lost one game. Which isn’t bad at all really.
The Ottawa Senators look to snap their one-game losing streak when they host the Vancouver Canucks.
DJ Smith will make a couple changes to his lineup as the team returns home for the first time since November 14th. Adam Gaudette, picked up on waivers over the weekend, will make his Sens debut. Meanwhile Tyler Ennis comes out. Bit of a surprise there but it’s possible he’s dealing with a nagging injury.
On the blueline, Lassi Thomson draws back in while Michael Del Zotto comes out. Oh and Drake Batherson is back! Here’s how the Coach had ’em lined up at this morning’s game day skate.
Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Stützle-Paul-Brown
Formenton-Gaudette-Sanford
Tierney-Gambrell-Watson
Chabot-Zub
Mete-Zaitsev
Holden-Thomson
Filip Gustavsson is expected to start for the Senators but Smith did not confirm that this morning.
Puck drop is scheduled for a less conventional 7:38 PM. The game is available on various elements of the net of sports, on the one-thousand, two hundredth station on the amplitude modulation and streamed via a vast network of interconnected computers across the information superhighway.
Here’s a closer look at how these two teams match up via the HEAD2HEAD table.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 7-14-2 (16 pts) | 4-14-1 (9 pts) |
| Goals For | 2.26 (29th) | 2.42 (27th) |
| Goals Against | 3.17 (25th) | 3.84 (32nd) |
| Power Play | 16.9% (T-21st) | 17.5% (T-19th) |
| Penalty Kill | 32.0 (20th) | 34.3 (31st) |
| Shots For | 34.0 (6th) | 29.3 (24th) |
| Shots Against | 32.0 (20th) | 34.3 (31st) |
| Leading Scorers | Miller- 20 pts Garland- 16 pts Hughes- 16 pts Horvat- 12 pts Pettersson- 11 pts |
Batherson- 16 pts Norris- 13 pts Tkachuk- 11 pts Brown-10 pts Ennis- 9 pts |
| Starting Goalie | TBD | TBD |
