Just over 24 hours after dropping a Saturday matinee game to the Minnesota Wild, the Ottawa Senators will get a chance to avenge their loss when they meet the Carolina Hurricanes at 5 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it helps,\u201d said Shane Pinto on Saturday night about the opportunity to bounce back. \u201cI think obviously it stings right now, but we\u2019ve got to get ready, get our bodies ready to battle a little bit harder tomorrow and come out with a good effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators welcomed back star defenceman Jake Sanderson to their lineup on Saturday, a welcome sign for their battered blueline and for a team looking to hold down the final wild card spot in the East.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat to play again, a little bit rusty for sure, but as expected,\u201d said Sanderson. \u201cBut yeah, I think just excitement, and trying to help this team, the guys have been absolutely grinding lately, so super excited to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sanderson played a team-high 24:55 in his return to the lineup, recording three shots. He played primarily with Artem Zub (12:46 of TOI at five-on-five), but also saw action with Jordan Spence (6:48 of TOI at five-on-five).<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys have been playing awesome, definitely that next man up mentality,\u201d said Sanderson. \u201cI think it doesn\u2019t really matter who\u2019s out of the lineup right now, we\u2019ve dealt with injuries all year and I think our guys have handled it great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sens have dropped both meetings this year against the Hurricanes, who arrived in Ottawa late Saturday night after defeating the New York Islanders on home ice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve liked them, I\u2019ve liked both games,\u201d said Travis Green ahead of the game when asked how he\u2019d assess the Sens\u2019 play in those games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of similarities in our game, a couple differences, of course, that\u2019s going to happen, but both teams want to play aggressive, both teams want to play on top of you, and it\u2019s going to be a little bit of a battle of who can get to their game first tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over 24 hours after dropping a Saturday matinee game to the Minnesota Wild, the Ottawa Senators will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542570","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=542570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}