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Ottawa Senators (17-13-4) at Boston Bruins (20-15-1)
Venue: TD Garden
Date: Sunday, December 21
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: NESN, ESPN+
Radio:1200 TSN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster
Ottawa Senators News & Notes:
The Senators have won four of their last five games after a 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday. Ottawa snapped the Bruins seven-game winning streak with a 5-3 win on November 13.
Boston Bruins News & Notes:
The Bruins suffered their first overtime loss, 5-4, to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Boston is now a percentage point out of a playoff berth.
Ottawa Senators Projected Lines
Tkachuk-Stutzle-Zetterlund
Perron-Cozens-Batherson
Amadio-Greig-Giroux
Lycksell-Halliday-Cousins
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Jensen
Spence-Matinpalo
Ullmark
Merilainen
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Boston Bruins Projected Lines:
Khusnutdinov-E. Lindholm-Pastrnak
Mittelstadt-Zacha-Geekie
Steeves-Minten-Eyssimont
Jeannot-Kuraly-Kastelic
Zadorov-McAvoy
H. Lindholm-Peeke
Lohrei-Soderstrom
Korpisalo
Swayman
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Players To Watch:
Ottawa Senators
Tim Stutzle leads the Senators with 37 points. Drake Batherson has contributed 32 points.
Boston Bruins
Morgan Geekie scored his 25th goal of the season on Saturday. Pavel Zacha scored his tenth marker of the season.
Injury Report:
Ottawa Senators
D Thomas Chabot – IR
C Lars Eller – IR
C Shane Pinto – IR
Boston Bruins
D Jordan Harris – IR
D Henri Jokiharju – IR
RW Matej-Blumel – IR
D Michael Callahan – OUT
LW Viktor Arvidsson – IR
D Jonathan Aspirot – Out
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