The Ottawa Senators have lost just two games in regulation this season.
If I had told you that’s where they’d be 12 games in back at the start of October, you would have felt pretty good about things. Yet despite banking 15 of a possible 24 points in the first month, their start has been filled with inconsistency. And they closed the month out with their worst performance to date.
The Senators will look to bounce back from that ugly loss and get November started on a high note as they play host to the Detroit Red Wings.
Ottawa plays just two more games before their schedule takes a strange turn because of the trip to Sweden.
After the game against Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon they play just two games in the span of eleven days. They pay for that down-time when they get back though as they follow that up with a stretch of six games in ten days beginning with Pittsburgh on November 16th.
Predicted to be on the outside looking in come playoff time, that’s exactly where the Detroit Red Wings find themselves early in the season. They’ve probably done a little better than expected though putting together a 6-6-1 record, which has them sitting two points behind Ottawa in the Atlantic. They’ve won two straight though including a 5-3 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Halloween.
Tonight is 14th Annual Canadian Armed Forces Appreciation Night at the Canadian Tire Centre. More than 3,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families will be in attendance. Funds raised tonight will benefit Support Our Troops to specifically support family resiliency projects like summer camp and post-secondary school bursaries for dependents of members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Boro, Isaac, and the combat patch. #SensCAFNight pic.twitter.com/0iMaI6YSup
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) November 2, 2017
Sounds like the Senators will finally get some good news on the injury front. Kyle Turris is expected to return from that mysterious viral infection that seems to be making it’s way through the team to varying degrees. He will draw in on the team’s second line with Zack Smith and Ryan Dzingel. With Turris returning, Max McCormick was returned to Belleville.
Morning skate scheduled for 10:30 AM today so we’ll get a better sense of the line up then. Here’s how Guy Boucher lined his team up at yesterday’s practice.
Pyatt-Brassard-Stone
Smith-Turris-Dzingel
Hoffman-Pageau-DiDomenico
Burrows-Thompson-Rodewald
Oduya-Karlsson
Phaneuf-Ceci
Claesson-Wideman
Craig Anderson gets the start in goal for Ottawa. Puck drop is scheduled for just after 7:30 PM with the game available on TSN5.
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| Record | 6-6-1 | 5-2-5 |
| Goals For | 2.69 (24th) | 3.58 (7th) |
| Goals Against | 2.92 (T-16th) | 3.08 (T-19th) |
| Power Play | 13.6% (T-26th) | 19.6% (11th) |
| Penalty Kill | 83.6% (T-10th) | 88.2% (4th) |
| Shots For/Shots Against | 31.5 (T-17th) 34.7 (30th) |
32.0 (14th) 32.1 (T-15th) |
| Ice Time Leaders | Green- 23:18 Daley- 22:13 Zetterberg- 20:23 |
Karlsson- 25:12 Ceci- 22:30 Phaneuf- 21:38 |
| Leading Scorers | Larkin- 12 pts Green- 11 pts Mantha- 10 pts |
Stone- 12 pts Hoffman- 11 pts Brassard- 11 pts |
| Team Save % | .916 (T-9th) | .904 (17th) |
