Florida Panthers (37-37-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (41-27-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers, on a three-game losing streak, play the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has a 41-27-10 record overall and a 10-8-6 record in Atlantic Division play. The Senators are 8-11-4 in games their opponents commit fewer penalties.<\/p>\n
Florida has gone 37-37-4 overall with an 11-10-2 record in Atlantic Division play. The Panthers are third in NHL play with 361 total penalties (averaging 4.6 per game).<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the fourth time these teams match up this season. The Panthers won 6-3 in the previous matchup. Carter Verhaeghe led the Panthers with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Stutzle has 34 goals and 47 assists for the Senators. Drake Batherson has four goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sam Bennett has 26 goals and 32 assists for the Panthers. Seth Jones has one goal and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.5 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 3-6-1, averaging 2.7 goals, four assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 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
Panthers: Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Evan Rodrigues: out for season (finger), Sam Reinhart: out for season (foot), Niko Mikkola: out for season (knee), Anton Lundell: out for season (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out for season (foot), Aaron Ekblad: out for season (finger), Jonah Gadjovich: out for season (upper body), Matthew Tkachuk: day to day (personal), Aleksander Barkov: out for season (knee), Dmitry Kulikov: out for season (finger).<\/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 Florida Panthers (37-37-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (41-27-10, in the Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-547105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368378655164130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547105","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=547105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547105\/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=547105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}