The Ottawa Senators host the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, with both clubs mired in a four-game losing slide. Ottawa is tied for last place in the Eastern Conference. Vancouver is last in the Western Conference and overall in the NHL. So something’s gotta give.<\/p>\n
We’re providing live updates for this one tonight, so check back off and on for updates.<\/p>\n
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FIRST PERIOD<\/p>\n
2:34 \u2014 The Senators control play in the Vancouver zone, creating several opportunities, including Fabian Zetterland in the high slot taking a nice pass from Drake Batherson, but the Canucks are in shot-blocking mode so far, getting in the way of three or four opportunities.<\/p>\n
3:56 \u2014 Merilainen looks unsteady early on. A puck gets flipped to the front of the net and he freezes it. But at no point did it look like anything but awkward.<\/p>\n
4:26 \u2014 Brady Tkachuk breaks over the blue line up the middle and gets a clean shot on goal. Lankinen cuts down the angle and makes the save.<\/p>\n
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10:00 \u2014 Senators outshooting Vancouver 6-1.<\/p>\n
13:42 \u2014 Fabian Zetterlund hits Tim Stutzle with a nice saucer pass sending him free on a 2 on 1 with Drake Batherson. Stutzle has a lane to shoot and takes it, but Kevin Lankinen makes a skate save to keep the score tied at zero.<\/p>\n
15:30 \u2014 Ridly Greig hits Shane Pinto with a pass to the high slot and Pinto rings a quick shot off the cross bar and out of play. Senators leading in shots now 10-1.<\/p>\n
15:36 \u2014 OTTAWA GOAL \u2014 Artem Zub gets his first goal in 18 games. After a faceoff win, he steps in from the right point and beats Lankinen with a wrist shot over the glove on the short side. 1-0 Ottawa. Pinto and Amadio draw assists.<\/p>\n
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15:51 \u2014 OTTAWA GOAL \u2014 The Sens get their second goal in 15 seconds, an exact replica of the Zub goal, also coming off a nice faceoff win. This time, it’s Jordan Spence who rips another wrist shot to beat Lankinen on the far side. 2-0 Ottawa. Stutzle and Batherson draw assists.<\/p>\n
17:30 \u2014 The Canucks push back with some opportunities, crowding Merilainen, with one puck trickling just wide.<\/p>\n
19:10 \u2014 Eller almost crams home a juicy rebound, but Lankinen deflects it wide.<\/p>\n
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19:57 \u2014 After some great low to high puck movement by the Senators, Stutzle unleashes a wicked one timer but Lankinen makes a great save, although he didn’t seem sure that was the case as the first period siren went.<\/p>\n
20:00 \u2014 Senators lead the Canucks 2-0 after one, outshooting them 15-5.<\/p>\n
SECOND PERIOD<\/p>\n
0:34 \u2014 Brock Boeser dangles through traffic to the front of Ottawa\u2019s net and just misses the post as he tries to tuck it behind Merilainen.<\/p>\n
1:40 \u2014 Vancouver penalty. Filip Hronek gets called for delay of game after his clearing attempt goes over the glass.<\/p>\n
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2:05 \u2014 Giroux at the right point with a hard slap shot that just misses the right post.<\/p>\n
2:18 \u2014 The second-unit power play starts things off. Along the boards, David Perron makes a hard pass to Zetterlund in front of the net, and it caroms off him, right on goal. It hits Lankinen, luckily for him.<\/p>\n
3:04 \u2014 Cozens gets a hard wrist shot off from the left faceoff circle, and it goes off Lankinen\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n
3:40 \u2014 The Senators end up with four shots on a failed power play.<\/p>\n
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4:34 \u2014 Lankinen makes a spectacular reaching blocker save on what looked like a sure goal. Dylan Cozens was lying on the ice in a crowd and appeared to poke a loose puck toward the net before Lankinen, who was out of position, reached back with his blocker and got just enough of it to keep it out.<\/p>\n
7:04 \u2014 Merilainen makes a couple of big saves: the first in tight on Conor Garland, and moments later a nice save on a slap shot from the point by Tyler Myers.<\/p>\n
9:57 \u2014 Jake DeBrusk takes a nice centering pass and redirects it off the outside of the post. Good to see Merilainen getting a few breaks as he tries to piece his mojo back together.<\/p>\n
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11:49 \u2014 Drake Batherson gets two great chances. He corrals a puck in the high slot with time to pick a spot and snaps a shot wide. Shortly after, Thomas Chabot dances behind the Vancouver net and gets it out to Batherson. Batherson gets a stick on it, the puck ramps up into the air, and Lankinen swats it away like a mosquito.<\/p>\n
12:54 \u2014 Ottawa penalty. Claude Giroux gets a slashing penalty after whacking Zeev Buium\u2019s stick out of his hand 200 feet from Ottawa\u2019s net.<\/p>\n
13:57 \u2014 Tim St\u00fctzle sprints away on a shorthanded breakaway but loses control of the puck at the last moment. Seconds later, Pinto and Greig get a shorthanded two-on-one. Pinto finds Greig, but Lankinen gets a piece of his shot.<\/p>\n
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18:20 – Greig being Greig, he takes a good healthy whack at Lankinen’s trapper, just as the goalie freezes the puck. Hronek isn’t happy.<\/p>\n
20:00 – Senators still lead 2-0 and lead in shots 32-11. If not for Lankinen’s heroics and a lot of missed Sens shots (11), this one could be a lot worse. Instead, it’s still very much a game, heading to the final frame.<\/p>\n
More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators host the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, with both clubs mired in a four-game losing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[1473,536,305,1613,13281,831,1744,7010,4238,36842,5,7747,1735,38555,51221,4,72,25,5157,1188,73,1795,832,681,19654,27,1289],"class_list":["post-406363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-artem-zub","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-brock-boeser","tag-conor-garland","tag-cozens","tag-david-perron","tag-drake-batherson","tag-fabian-zetterlund","tag-filip-hronek","tag-giroux","tag-hockey","tag-jake-debrusk","tag-jordan-spence","tag-lankinen","tag-merilainen","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-ridly-greig","tag-senators","tag-shane-pinto","tag-thomas-chabot","tag-tim-stutzle","tag-tyler-myers","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-zeev-buium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115891030213456539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}