It seems like a lifetime since the Ottawa Senators have been in Tampa Bay, but 72 games after the Sens took the season\u2019s opener 5-4, they\u2019ll finally be back.<\/p>\n
The Senators have won six of their last eight games, while the Lightning have won five of their past eight heading into the Saturday matinee. Both teams picked up a single point on Thursday night, with the Lightning falling to the Kraken in overtime and the Sens in a shootout to the Penguins.<\/p>\n
Linus Ullmark established a season-high by stopping 35 shots in the shootout loss, including 15 alone in the second period of the game, where he was able to weather the storm and only allow a single goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great, you know, it\u2019s not surprising to us,\u201d said Travis Green after the game. \u201cI\u2019ve said it all year, we believe in him, he\u2019s a good goalie, you need your goalie to pick you up sometimes, and obviously, that 20 minutes he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ullmark led the Sens to that season-opening win, which also saw a three-assist performance from Brady Tkachuk, a one-goal, three-point showing from Artem Zub, and a two-goal, three-point effort from Shane Pinto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems like a lifetime since the Ottawa Senators have been in Tampa Bay, but 72 games after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-209691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209691","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=209691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}