While it seems a bit snowy outside for ducks to be migrating north for the summer, that is the task facing the Senators on Saturday afternoon\u00a0in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
The Anaheim Ducks have already defeated Winnipeg (4-1) and lost to Toronto (6-4) on their northern road trip, which will continue\u00a0at 1 p.m.\u00a0in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cA very offensive group, lot of skill throughout their lineup, very mobile back end,\u201d said Travis Green of the challenge that the Ducks pose. \u201cTheir goalies have played well, there\u2019s a reason they\u2019re where they\u2019re at in the standings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa is coming off a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens\u00a0on Wednesday night, which served as the opener of a three-game homestand that continues on Sunday against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
With Jake Sanderson (week-to-week) and Nick Jensen (day-to-day) out with injuries, the Senators will insert Dennis Gilbert into the lineup on Saturday. The left-shot defenceman skated alongside Nikolas Matinpalo at practice on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Gilbert is a] veteran guy, he understands the defensive side of the game,\u201d said Travis Green ahead of the game. \u201cBigger body. Looking for him to play a hard and heavy game. Take away time and space against a very offensive team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it seems a bit snowy outside for ducks to be migrating north for the summer, that is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-536279","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\/536279","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=536279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}