{"id":547235,"date":"2026-04-08T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:11:31","slug":"panthers-take-losing-streak-into-matchup-with-the-senators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547235\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers take losing streak into matchup with the Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Florida Panthers (37-37-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (41-27-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers, on a three-game losing streak, play the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Thursday&#8217;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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (37-37-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (41-27-10, in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[62234,301,5,4,292,72,25,5157,73,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-547235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-62234","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-hockey","13":"tag-ottawa","14":"tag-ottawa-senators","15":"tag-ottawasenators","16":"tag-senators","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368787732040563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547235","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=547235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}