Ottawa Senators (38-24-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (44-21-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators visit the Tampa Bay Lightning after Drake Batherson’s two-goal game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Senators’ 4-3 shootout loss.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 12-5-1 against the Atlantic Division and 44-21-6 overall. The Lightning are 15-5-3 in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Ottawa is 38-24-10 overall with an 8-6-6 record in Atlantic Division games. The Senators are 8-10-4 in games they have more penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams meet this season. The Senators won 5-4 in the previous meeting. Shane Pinto led the Senators with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nikita Kucherov has 40 goals and 81 assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has six goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tim Stutzle has 32 goals and 42 assists for the Senators. Batherson has scored six goals with two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 5-3-2, averaging 4.4 goals, seven assists, 5.2 penalties and 15.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Senators: 7-2-1, averaging three goals, 4.9 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Dominic James: out (leg), Declan Carlile: out (undisclosed), Victor Hedman: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Senators: Dennis Gilbert: out (upper-body), Jake Sanderson: out (upper body), Thomas Chabot: out (arm), Lassi Thomson: out (lower body), Nick Jensen: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (38-24-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (44-21-6, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95368,1111,2814,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-208198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-95368","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}