Tampa Bay Lightning (48-23-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (40-27-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Senators -128, Lightning +107; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators host the Tampa Bay Lightning after Brady Tkachuk’s two-goal game against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Senators’ 6-3 win.<\/p>\n
Ottawa is 40-27-10 overall and 9-8-6 against the Atlantic Division. The Senators have a 34-10-5 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is 14-7-1 against the Atlantic Division and 48-23-6 overall. The Lightning rank third in the league with 275 total goals (averaging 3.6 per game).<\/p>\n
The teams square off Tuesday for the third time this season. The Lightning won the last meeting 4-2.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Stutzle has 33 goals and 45 assists for the Senators. Shane Pinto has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov has 43 goals and 83 assists for the Lightning. Jake Guentzel has seven goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.1 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Lightning: 6-2-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.7 assists, 5.6 penalties and 13.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Senators: Dennis Gilbert: out (upper-body), Thomas Chabot: out (forearm), Tyler Kleven: out (upper body), Carter Yakemchuk: out (concussion), Nick Jensen: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Lightning: Brandon Hagel: day to day (undisclosed), Max Crozier: out (abdomen), Anthony Cirelli: day to day (undisclosed), Dominic James: out (leg), Declan Carlile: out (undisclosed), Victor Hedman: out (personal).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Tampa Bay Lightning (48-23-6, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (40-27-10, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-545201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362570939615406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545201","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=545201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}