{"id":555207,"date":"2026-04-18T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:14:30","slug":"nhl-playoff-preview-ottawa-senators-at-carolina-hurricanes-with-line-combinations-04-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555207\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Playoff Preview: Ottawa Senators at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 04\/18\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-2-4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Spencer Colby\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, 99 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, 113 pts)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Lenovo Center<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 18<br \/>Time: 3:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN\/SN\/TVAS<br \/>Radio: TSN 1200 CFGO-AM\/102.5 The Game<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Senators ended their regular season with a 3-1 win over the Maple Leafs. They come into the playoffs having won five of their last six games; the loss came in overtime to the Devils, 4-3. During their six-game stretch, they\u2019re averaging 4.3 goals per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game. They went 1-2-0 against Carolina in the regular season, averaging 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes ended their season winning four of their last five games as they beat the Islanders 2-1 on Tuesday. Their loss, like Ottawa\u2019s, came 3-2 in a shootout; they lost to the Flyers. During that five-game stretch, they were averaging 4.2 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game. They went 2-1-0 against Ottawa this season, averaging 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Batherson-Stutzle-Giroux <br \/>Tkachuk-Cozens-Greig<br \/>Cousins-Pinto-Amadio<br \/>Foegele-Eller-Zetterlund <\/p>\n<p>Sanderson-Zub<br \/>Chabot-Spence<br \/>Gilbert-Mantipalo<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark<br \/>Reimer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/ottawa-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Get your Ottawa Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Svechnikov-Aho-Jarvis<br \/>Hall-Stankoven-Blake<br \/>Ehlers-Staal-Martinook<br \/>Carrier-Jankowski-Robinson<\/p>\n<p>Slavin-Chatfield<br \/>Miller-Walker<br \/>Gostisbehere-Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Bussi<br \/>Andersen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Carolina&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Carolina Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p>Tim Stutzle had a goal in all three games against Carolina this season. He finished with three goals and an assist in the three games.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Svechnikov has a point in each game against the Senators in the regular season with two goals and an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">D Tyler Kleven \u2013 Out<br \/>D Nick Jensen \u2013 Out<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>G Pyotr Kochetkov \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/pyotr-kochetkov-probably-done-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Colby\/The Canadian Press via AP \u00a0Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, 99 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, 113 pts)\u00a0 Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1742,2216,194,29,5176,5,195,5236,2218,4,5573,15352,25,681],"class_list":{"0":"post-555207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-andrei-svechnikov","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","12":"tag-carolinahurricanes","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hurricanes","15":"tag-injury-report","16":"tag-metropolitan-division","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-nhl-playoff-preview","20":"tag-ottawa-senators","21":"tag-tim-stutzle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116425425631502200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555207","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=555207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}