Sens lines

We expect Travis Green’s group to line up the same way they did yesterday. The only question is whether JoJo will get another crack in goal, or if they’ll deem Ersson’s workload minimal and give him another start in a back-to-back situation:

Ottawa Senators Line Combinations

Check out the latest Ottawa Senators lines for tonight. Complete Senators line combination, game stats, and season stats updated daily.

Ducks lines

The Sens will be facing Laurent Brossoit’s Ducks, which feature plenty of skill in the top-six despite missing Troy Terry due to injury. Ryan Poehling and Ian Moore are also likely to miss out, while 67s legend Pavel Mintyukov might draw in after missing a couple of games with a lower-body injury.

Ducks practice lines (10/31):

Killorn-Carlsson-Caulfield
Gauthier-Granlund-Sennecke
Greer-Washe-Colangelo
Malott-McQueen-Nesterenko
Vatrano-Terry*

LaCombe-Helleson
Mintyukov-Warren
Mitchell-Luneau
Hinds-Moore*

Dostál | Brossoit | Husso

#FlyTogether

— Derek Lee (@dereklee27.bsky.social) 2026-10-31T17:55:34.323ZGame notesLike Ottawa, the Ducks are expected to take a step this season, and their 5-7-1 record in October isn’t going to cut it. They’re bleeding goals against, while overperforming their shots on offence, which isn’t a good combination. The Sens could take inspiration from Anaheim’s sixth-ranked powerplay, which looks deadly to start the year. They lean heavily on the five-player unit of LaCombe, Carlsson, Granlund, Sennecke, and Gauthier, with the primary role of the top of the umbrella being to set up the two flank players for half-wall opportunities. The Sens love to pressure the point on the penalty kill, but LaCombe is skilled at passing around pressure, so it’ll be a key matchup to watch. This will be Laurent Brossoit’s first start of the year. He has a 0.910% save-percentage through six AHL starts, and is being asked to support a Ducks’ tandem that’s really struggled to start the season. Anaheim signed former Sens defender Nick Jensen to a two-year, $2.25M per year contract in the offseason, and placed him on waivers earlier this week. The 36-year-old was the elder statesman by… 10 years on Anaheim’s blueline. Every other regular defender is 26 or younger. I loved the fact that Philip Tomasino had a great game yesterday. The former first-round pick has produced in the NHL, but hasn’t stuck around. With Foegele and Burakovsky out for most of November, there’s a great opportunity for him to stick as a regular left-winger, and he showcased strong hockey sense, good playmaking, and solid defensive awareness alongside Shane Pinto and Drake Batherson last night. Moving Shane Pinto up to a more offensive line leaves Ridly Greig and Claude Giroux to play shutdown minutes alongside Michael Amadio. I’m curious to see how they fare against Carlsson or Granlund tonight.

It’s an 8:00pm EST start, tonight. For people watching from time zones that have shifted (hello, BC and Alberta!), make sure you fix your clocks!

Statistics

Regular seasonSenatorsDucks
Category#Rank#Rank
Goals/GP3.1318th3.3112th
Goals against/GP312th3.8531st
Shots/GP25.923rd24.429th
Shots against/GP26.813th27.917th
Powerplay %12.929th28.66th
Penalty Kill %78.217th7521st
Corsi % (5v5 SVA)49.4918th47.9923rd
xGF% (5v5 SVA)48.7121st45.7926th

SenatorsDucks
CategoryPlayer#Player#
GoalsTim Stützle, Drake Batherson9Beckett Sennecke8
AssistsStützle12Leo Carlsson14
PointsStützle21Carlsson18
ShotsBatherson36Cutter Gauthier48
TOI/GPChabot24:31Jackson LaCombe26:39