Ottawa Senators (28-22-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (27-23-9, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs are looking to stop their five-game home skid with a victory against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
Toronto has a 6-9-3 record in Atlantic Division play and a 27-23-9 record overall. The Maple Leafs have a -12 scoring differential, with 190 total goals scored and 202 given up.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has a 28-22-8 record overall and a 5-5-6 record in Atlantic Division play. The Senators have committed 232 total penalties (4.0 per game) to rank seventh in league play.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams play this season. The Maple Leafs won 7-5 in the previous matchup. Matthew Knies led the Maple Leafs with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: William Nylander has scored 18 goals with 36 assists for the Maple Leafs. Auston Matthews has one goal and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tim Stutzle has 28 goals and 33 assists for the Senators. Stephen Halliday has scored four goals and added one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 3-6-1, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.1 assists, 2.3 penalties and 4.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.3 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Maple Leafs: None listed.<\/p>\n
Senators: None listed.<\/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 (28-22-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (27-23-9, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226127,966,4,450,451,3,13145,99,452,453],"class_list":["post-493770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-226127","tag-article","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}