{"id":291101,"date":"2025-11-17T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:38:09","slug":"sens-prepare-for-longest-road-trip-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens prepare for longest road trip of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senators have enjoyed home cooking for the past week, but the menu is about to change as the team heads out for their longest road trip of the season.<\/p>\n

Before beginning the seven-game swing with a game in Anaheim on Thursday night, the Sens will take advantage of four days between games to reset.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important, there\u2019s not a lot of practice time in stretches this year,\u201d said Green, who said that the Sens will use Tuesday as a travel day and practice again Wednesday in Anaheim.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had these two four-day breaks, so we\u2019re kind of going with a little bit of the same look that we did before. But looking at our game, where we thought we needed some work, today there was a lot of puck touches, some scoring stuff, but also working on our defensive side of our puck as well. Trying to touch all of our areas but extra emphasis on certain parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claude Giroux says the lengthy trip is better served to happen at the beginning of the year and will bring the team closer, with lots of time for bonding. \u201cMore time together, really,\u201d said Giroux. \u201cThis is a long one, obviously, and it\u2019s going to be good for us to see where we stand on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sens will likely need to make use of both of their goaltenders on the trip, and both have rounded into form over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tight league this year, there\u2019s not a lot of room for error. Goaltending\u2019s at a premium in the NHL,\u201d said Green, referencing the team\u2019s seven overtime games so far this season, part of a league-wide trend that has seen almost 30 per cent of games go into extra time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Linus Ullmark has picked up points for the Sens in eight of his last 10 starts dating back to an overtime loss against Edmonton on Oct. 21. Meanwhile, Leevi Meril\u00e4inen has won three straight starts dating back to Oct. 2 and holds a .913 save percentage and 2.33 goals-against average in those games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as far as our goalies have played, I think they\u2019ve tightened things up in the last, I don\u2019t know, 10-to-14 games, it feels that way,\u201d said Green, adding that both are \u201ctrending in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the goalies have rounded into form, so too has the team, even in the absence of Brady Tkachuk. David Perron said that missing their captain during the first quarter of the season has been hard, but not a topic in the dressing room. The Sens have compiled an 8-4-4 record since Tkachuk was injured in the third game of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always like that on every team, you try to move on,\u201d said Perron. \u201cIf we didn\u2019t have success, we would probably hear about it more [from the media], we would talk about it more\u2026 we want to have him back because we know we\u2019re a better team with him, [but] that\u2019s just the reality right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senators have enjoyed home cooking for the past week, but the menu is about to change as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}