Ottawa Senators (42-27-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (43-31-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Elmont, New York; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators visit the New York Islanders after Fabian Zetterlund scored two goals in the Senators’ 5-1 win against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n
New York has a 22-14-2 record in home games and a 43-31-5 record overall. The Islanders have gone 31-9-3 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Ottawa is 42-27-10 overall and 20-15-4 in road games. The Senators have committed 307 total penalties (3.9 per game) to rank 10th in the league.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the third time these teams square off this season. The Senators won 3-2 in the last matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Schaefer has 23 goals and 36 assists for the Islanders. Brayden Schenn has four goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Drake Batherson has 32 goals and 36 assists for the Senators. Brady Tkachuk has three goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 4-6-0, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.3 assists, 2.8 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.3 assists, 3.2 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Senators: Dennis Gilbert: out (upper-body), Tyler Kleven: out (upper body), Nick Jensen: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (42-27-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (43-31-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[62411,301,5,4,292,72,25,5157,73,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-549679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-62411","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\/116381496395529710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549679","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=549679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549679\/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=549679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}