Just the facts
- When: Tonight, 7:30 PM
- Where: Canadian Tire Centre – Kanata, ON
- How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Silver Seven Sens
Know your enemy
- 4-4-1, 9PTS, T-5th in the Atlantic Division
- Shane Pinto: 8G-1A-9PTS; Dylan Cozens: 6G-3A-9PTS; Drake Batherson: 2G-5A-7PTS
- Linus Ullmark: 4-3-1, 3.11 GAA, .870 save percentage
Game notes
- Fresh off of winning one in a row (leave me alone, it’s a thing), the Bruins return to Atlantic Division action with a visit to the Ottawa Senators.
- Ottawa has won two in a row, the latest a 7-1 pounding of the Washington Capitals on Saturday night. That game featured Linus Ullmark doing Linus Ullmark things.
- The Senators have been without captain Brady Tkachuk since the third game of the season, as he suffered a thumb injury that required surgery.
- Ottawa has a nice selection of “he’s still playing?” guys, including David Perron and Lars Eller.
- The Bruins will be without Hampus Lindholm, who was placed on injured reserve on Sunday (retroactive to October 9). Jonathan Aspirot was recalled from Providence and should be available tonight.
- Tonight’s game will be an interesting face-off battle, as the Senators have the league’s best win percentage (59.8%) and the Bruins have the second best (56.2%).
- While the B’s aren’t exactly airtight when it comes to goals against, the Senators are actually worse: they’re 29th in the league in GA/G, allowing 3.89 goals per game. That figure includes a whopping eight goals allowed to the Buffalo Sabres two weeks ago.
- On the other side of the ice, Ottawa has a very potent power play, converting on 28.1% of their opportunities (sixth-best in the NHL).
- Fun fact: tonight’s two head coaches, Travis Green and Marco Sturm, were teammates on the 2005-2006 Bruins! I’m sure this isn’t the first time it’s happened, but it’s kind of cool. What a terrible season that was, eh?
See
ya tonight!
