It feels like only yesterday we were watching Tim Stützle punch and shoot the Ottawa Senators to victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
Hang on, that was yesterday.
The Sens are right back at it though as they visit the similarly lazy New York Islanders in their last game before going their separate ways for the NHL All Star Game. Enjoy the session while you can folks because we won’t see our dear ol’ Senators again until Monday of next week. Eeep.
DJ Smith met with the media many moments ago and gave us the inside scoop on this evening’s lineup. One change on the blueline as Victor Mete draws in for Lassi Thomson. Everything else stays the same except they’ll wear their road jerseys because this is a road game.
Here’s how the Senators might arrange the hockey-playing humans.
Tkachük-Stützle-Ennis
Sanford-Paül-Watson
Formenton-Tierney-Sokolov
Kastelic-Bishop-Gaüdette
Chabot-Züb
Mete-Holden
Brannstrom-Brown
Anton Forsberg gets the start for the Senators.
Puck drop is scheduled for just a shade after half past 1900 hrs. Okay, that just made things even more confusing. The game starts at 7:30, k? TSN5 has the television broadcast, TSN1200 has the radio call, Bort is serving up the illegal internet feedz and the SensChirp comment section will be providing the real-time, stream of consciousness over-reactions.
Wondering how these two teams match-up? Well that’s none of your damn business, I’m afraid. Okay, that was mean. Here’s a HEAD2HEAD table to make up for it.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 14-21-4 (32 pts) | 15-16-6 (36 pts) |
| Goals For | 2.77 (22nd) | 2.38 (30th) |
| Goals Against | 3.36 (25th) | 2.65 (6th) |
| Power Play | 18.5% (21st) | 17.2% (23rd) |
| Penalty Kill | 81.1% (15th) | 82.3% (10th) |
| Shots For | 30.6 (18th) | 29.0 (27th) |
| Shots Against | 33.4 (27th) | 31.0 (13th) |
| Leading Scorers | Batherson- 34 pts Tkachuk- 29 pts Norris- 26 pts Chabot- 23 pts Stützle- 21 pts |
Barzal- 27 pts Nelson- 21 pts Bailey- 20 pts Wahlstrom- 17 pts Dobson- 16 pts |
| Starting Goalie | Anton Forsberg 7-7-1 2.95 GAA, .911 sv% |
Ilya Sorokin 12-8-5 2.37 GAA, .923 sv% |
