{"id":505916,"date":"2026-02-28T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:18:25","slug":"nhl-game-preview-ottawa-senators-at-toronto-maple-leafs-with-line-combinations-2-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505916\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Ottawa Senators at Toronto Maple Leafs with Line Combinations 2\/28\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maple-Leafs-vs.-Senators.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Preseason Game Preview: Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa Senators with Projected Line Combinations 9\/23\/2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>              <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators (28-22-8, 64 Pts) at Toronto Maple Leafs (27-23-9, 63 Pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Scotiabank Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, February 28<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>TV: ESPN+ \/ Sportsnet \/ CBC<br \/>Radio:<br \/>Ottawa \u2013 TSN 1200<br \/>Toronto \u2013 SN 590<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/mattb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Senators come into tonight\u2019s Battle of Ontario matchup looking to push themselves back into the playoff conversation. After a playoff birth last season, Ottawa has had many ups and downs this season as they look to return to the playoffs, and this has resulted in the Senators finding themselves seven points out of a playoff position less than a week before the trade deadline. Tonight, a win against a divisional rival will help their case, so look for the Senators to come out strong tonight. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs return home for the first time since their five game losing streak at home last month. That losing streak seems to be what shifted the Leafs into the sellers conversation, and if there was any doubt, two losses to divisional rivals since returning from the Olympic break. Tonight the Leafs should push to get back into the win column, to try and give the Leafs fans some hope in an otherwise hopeless season. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Batherson-Stutzle-Giroux<br \/>Tkachuk-Cozens-Greig<br \/>Cousins-Pinto-Amadio<br \/>Halliday-Eller-Zetterlund<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson-Zub<br \/>Chabot-Jensen<br \/>Kleven-Spence<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark<br \/>Reimer<\/p>\n<p>Buy Ottawa Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/ottawa-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Knies-Matthews-Domi<br \/>Maccelli-Tavares-Nylander<br \/>McMann-Roy-Cowan<br \/>Joshua-Laughton-Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Rielly-Carlo<br \/>McCabe-Stecher<br \/>Benoit-Ekman Larsson<\/p>\n<p>Woll<br \/>Stolarz<\/p>\n<p>Buy Toronto Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/toronto-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=tor&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Toronto Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/tim-stutzle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim St\u00fctzle<\/a> has been an \u2018X factor\u2019 for the Senators this season. He has 62 points so far in 58 games with the Senators. His high hockey IQ as well as elite vision has helped the Senators offense, and he will look to have a strong effort against the Leafs tonight. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/william-nylander\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a> continues to be Toronto\u2019s most productive player this season despite the team\u2019s recent struggles, leading the Maple Leafs with 54 points in just 42 games. Nylander came back from the Olympics without a medal, and has returned his focus on Toronto. He has two points in two games since the break and will continue to be an offensive dynamic player for Toronto tonight. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p>F \u2013 David Perron \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Chris Tanev \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa \u2013 March 3 at Edmonton Oilers<br \/>Toronto \u2013 March 2 vs Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (28-22-8, 64 Pts) at Toronto Maple Leafs (27-23-9, 63 Pts) Venue: Scotiabank ArenaDate: Saturday, February 28Time:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[46786,49,48,168422,20739,744,67408,746,8458],"class_list":["post-505916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-atlantic-division","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-tim-stutzle","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-william-nylander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505916","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=505916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}