The Ottawa Senators aim to recover from a disappointing and pointless three-game home stretch with a game on Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio. They will take on the Blue Jackets, who have a very similar record to Ottawa, trailing by just two points. Despite the Senators’ recent struggles, including three straight losses and five defeats in their last six contests, resulting in a drop in the Eastern Conference standings, the focus shouldn’t be on the strength of their opponent.<\/p>\n
Senators head coach Travis Green keeps adjusting the forward lines in hopes of discovering the right chemistry. Nick Cousins has moved back to the fourth line after playing with Tim St\u00fctzle and Fabian Zetterlund in the previous game. Brady Tkachuk replaces Cousins on that line, while David Perron moves up from the fourth line to line up with Dylan Cozens and Drake Batherson.<\/p>\n
Curtis McDiarmid will return to the lineup, replacing Stephen Halliday and Ole Rixell. A confrontation may be brewing between McDiarmid and Blue Jackets enforcer Mathieu Olivier. Interestingly, in McDiarmid\u2019s eight games this season, the Senators have posted a strong 5-1-2 record.<\/p>\n
Goalie Linus Ullmark is expected to start for Ottawa.<\/p>\n
Projected Senators lineup:<\/strong> Sanderson \u2013 Teeth Starting goalie: Ullmark<\/p>\n A quirky fact: Daniel Alfredsson celebrated his 53rd birthday in Columbus. According to NHL.com, Alfredsson has only played on his birthday three times during his long NHL career.<\/p>\n The Blue Jackets come into this game with a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n Projected Blue Jackets lineup (per NHL.com):<\/strong> Werensky \u2013 Provorov Starting goalie: Merzlikins<\/p>\n Steve Warne Fan Take:<\/strong> The Ottawa Senators aim to recover from a disappointing and pointless three-game home stretch with a game on Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio. They will take on the Blue Jackets, who have a very similar record to Ottawa, trailing by just two points. Despite the Senators’ recent struggles, including three straight losses and five defeats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[734],"class_list":{"0":"post-32430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTkachuk \u2013 St\u00fctzle \u2013 Zetterlund
\nPerron \u2013 Cozens \u2013 Batherson
\nAmadio \u2013 Greig \u2013 Giroud
\nMcDiarmid \u2013 or \u2013 Cousins <\/p>\n
\nCleve \u2013 Spence
\nMatimparo \u2013 Jensen <\/p>\n
\nVoronkov \u2013 Monaghan \u2013 Marchenko
\nJohnson \u2013 Fantilli \u2013 Jenner
\nWood \u2013 Coil \u2013 Syringer
\nGauns \u2013 Lundestr\u00f6m \u2013 Chinahoff <\/p>\n
\nMatejczuk \u2013 Severson
\nSmith \u2013 Blacksmith <\/p>\n
\nHockey News Ottawa<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis matchup is crucial for both teams trying to end their losing skids and regain momentum. Hockey fans should pay attention because these games highlight the intense battles of rebuilding teams striving to rise in the standings, which adds unpredictability and excitement to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"