It\u2019s been 25 days without an NHL game. That stretch ends Wednesday night, when 16 of the league\u2019s 32 teams are in action. On Thursday, each of the remaining teams return, including the Ottawa Senators, who will welcome the Detroit Red Wings to Canadian Tire Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the whole league\u2019s probably ready to get back into action, for sure,\u201d said Travis Green after the Senators practiced on Wednesday morning, the team\u2019s sixth practice in that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a lot of good work, wasn\u2019t overtaxing, there were parts of the last 10 days that were obviously hard and needed, but I think our guys are excited to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nikolas Matinpalo donned a green no-contact jersey for the practice, the first he\u2019d appeared in since winning bronze with Team Finland at the Olympics. Green said that Matinpalo was \u201ca little banged up,\u201d and deemed his status day-to-day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played a couple of days ago, so it\u2019s going to be maybe a little bit easier than some guys here,\u201d said Matinpalo about how ready he was for game action. \u201cBut [I\u2019ve] just tried to get [used to] the time zone here and ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matinpalo appeared in four of five games for Finland, scoring the opening goal in their preliminary win over Sweden. \u201cMaybe second biggest goal of my life after my first NHL goal,\u201d said Matinpalo about his wrister from the point that beat Filip Gustavsson.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into the Olympics I know that I haven\u2019t been playing much here, so I was really happy that I got games there too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tim St\u00fctzle didn\u2019t practice, though Green said that St\u00fctzle had been skating on his own and was sick on Wednesday. Green said that he also expected Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson to return on Wednesday night and take part in morning skate with the team on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been 25 days without an NHL game. That stretch ends Wednesday night, when 16 of the league\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-499277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}