The sky fell in Ottawa this week
A little dramatic perhaps but that’s sort of the way things felt around here over the last five days. Three ugly losses and then an off-ice circus of sorts and in the blink of an eye it feels like a once promising season is slipping away. Yet with 39 games left and the Eastern Conference tighter than ever, the show must go on.
The Senators look to right the ship as they host the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers on a Saturday night in Ottawa.
Some tinkering in the forward combinations and on defence based on what we saw at the morning skate. This is how Travis Green lined his guys up.
Tkachuk-Stutzle-Zetterlund
Perron-Cozens-Batherson
Amadio-Pinto-Giroux
Eller-Greig-Cousins
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Jensen
Kleven-Spence
Leevi Merilainen starts.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM in Ottawa. The game is on TV and radio and on the internet, I bet. Also available for in-person viewing, if that’s your kind of thing.
A closer look at the match-up via the HEAD2HEAD table.
| HEAD2HEAD |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Record | 22-18-3 (47 pts) | 20-18-5 (45 pts) |
| Goals For | 3.02 (19th) | 3.16 (11th) |
| Goals Against | 3.23 (22nd) | 3.37 (27th) |
| Power Play | 17.5% (22nd) | 23.6% (7th) |
| Penalty Kill | 83.0% (6th) | 73.4% (31st) |
| Shots For | 29.3 (7th) | 28.4 (14th) |
| Shots Against | 26.3 (6th) | 25.5 (4th) |
| Leading Scorers | Marchand-46 pts Reinhart-44 pts Bennett-33 pts Lundell-31 pts Verhaeghe-29 pts |
Stutzle-45 pts Batherson-39 pts Sanderson-32 pts Cozens-31 pts Giroux-30 pts |
| Starting Goalie | TBD | TBD |