My friends, this has all the makings of a legendary game. <\/p>\n
The Philadelphia Flyers have lost… nine straight games to start their season. Your Ottawa Senators? A lucky 6-2-0, persisting through a slew of injuries to start the year. <\/p>\n
The venue? Xfinity Mobile Arena, home of the Broad Street Bullies and a passionate fanbase that will explode tonight either way. Will it be joy? Or will it be anger. We will find out at 7:00pm EDT. <\/p>\n
Sens lines<\/p>\n
As a reminder, here’s how the Sens lined up last time out against the Islanders. If Sanderson plays, I imagine he might line up with Jordan Spence in a second-pair role for his first game, before Travis Green resets his defenders into his preferred configuration of Sanderson – Zub, Chabot – Spence. <\/p>\n
Today’s alignment #Sens<\/a> <\/p>\n Will see if Sanderson plays. This is the first time he’s been with the team.<\/p>\n Halliday-Stutzle- Batherson Chabot -Zub \u2014 Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) October 15, 2026<\/a> Here’s how the Flyers have been lining up this week, as they wait for Konecny, Grebenkin, Ristolainen, and York to return from injury. Ristolainen is the closest to returning, and if he plays, it’ll likely be in place of Oliver Bonk. <\/p>\n Flyers lines and pairs (Vladar in net) in pregame warmups:<\/p>\n Barkey – Dvorak – Foerster Sanheim – Bonk \u2014 Charlie O’Connor (@charlieoconn.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-10-13T22:35:11.361Z<\/a>Game notesI’ve seen some analysis blame the Flyers goaltending for their bad start and I just don’t see the evidence for that. While Dan Vladar had a poor game 1, he’s only given up -2.2 goals more than expected. Joseph Woll is definitely not the problem \u2013 he ranks as the league’s ninth best goaltender (4.3 GSAx) coming into tonight’s game. Linus Ullmark? A league-best 7.7 GSAx. The Sens have been “goalie-ing” the other team, not the other way around like last season. What will happen tonight? Outside of Philadelphia’s fourth line, I see skill spread out quite evenly across their other units. Konecny and Grebenkin are big blows, but the Sens got to see Tyson Foerster, Owen Tippett, and Matvei Michkov look dangerous in their earlier meeting this season. Since beating Philadelphia last week, Travis Green has continued to shuffle his lines. I thought St\u00fctzle and Greig’s lines looked great against the Islanders, while Dylan Cozens continues to try to find his feet. Claude Giroux always turns up against his former team, so if those two play together tonight, this would be a good time for a big game from #24. If Jake Sanderson plays, I’ll be watching his skating carefully. We know that one of his injuries was a lower-body injury, and all of Sanderson’s game depends on his skating as his elite physical tool. How does it look on retrievals? Does he have the confidence to jump into the rush? Ottawa’s 5-on-5 statistics are near the bottom of the league to start the season, in part because they didn’t have Sanderson and Zub on the ice for ~20+ minutes tilting the ice in their favour. That needs to change now that they’re back. <\/p>\n Regular seasonSenatorsFlyers SenatorsFlyers
Burakovsky- Cozens- Giroux
Cousins -Pinto- Amadio
Foegele -Greig- Zetterlund
MacDermid-Hodgson <\/p>\n
Sanderson -Spence
Kleven\u2026<\/p>\n
\nFlyers lines<\/p>\n
\nZegras – Couturier – Tippett
\nMartone – Cates – Michkov
\nBunting – Studnicka – Acciari<\/p>\n
\nSeeler – Drysdale
\nBenoit – Jiricek<\/p>\n
\nCategory#Rank#Rank
\nGoals\/GP2.6324th1.2232nd
\nGoals against\/GP2.57th3.5624th
\nShots\/GP22.829th20.432nd
\nShots against\/GP2614th33.732nd
\nPowerplay %13.528th7.731st
\nPenalty Kill %80.616th82.913th
\nCorsi % (5v5 SVA)43.3629th38.4832nd
\nxGF% (5v5 SVA)43.0628th32.8632nd<\/p>\n
\nCategoryPlayer#Player#
\nGoalsTim St\u00fctzle5Matvei Michkov3
\nAssistsSt\u00fctzle6Travis Konecny3
\nPointsSt\u00fctzle11Many players3
\nShotsThomas Chabot18Owen Tippett21
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