{"id":667859,"date":"2026-09-21T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/667859\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:30:41","slug":"nhl-preseason-game-preview-ottawa-senators-vs-montreal-canadiens-with-projected-line-combinations-09-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/667859\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Preseason Game Preview: Ottawa Senators vs. Montreal Canadiens with Projected Line Combinations 09\/21\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottawa Senators (0-0-0)\u00a0vs. Montreal Canadiens (2-0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-venue-bell-centre-date-saturday-september-19-time-7-00-pm-est-tv-espn\">Venue: Colis\u00e9e Vid\u00e9otron<br \/>Date: Monday, September 21<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>TV: NHL Network\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senators last season snuck in the playoffs as the second wild card with a 44-27-11 record and 99 points finishing fifth in the Atlantic Division. Their season came to an end in the first round against the Carolina Hurricanes. They went 1-1-2 against Montreal, averaging 3.8 goals per game against them.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Canadiens swept their split-squad games on Saturday winning 4-1 in Toronto and 4-3 in overtime at the Bell Centre. The Canadiens went 3-1-0 against Ottawa last season, averaging 3.8 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burakovsky-Stutzle-Batherson<br \/>Eklund-Cozens-Giroux<br \/>Blais-Cousins-Amadio<br \/>Greig-Halliday-Tomasino<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hutton-Matinpalo<br \/>Hamara-Andonovski<br \/>Harrington-Toure<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ullmark<br \/>Ersson<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/ottawa-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get your Ottawa Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens Lineup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caufield-Suzuki-Kreider<br \/>Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov<br \/>Davidson-Beck-Pastujov<br \/>Thorpe-Belzile-Nadeau<\/p>\n<p>Hutson-Bentley<br \/>Struble-Xhekaj<br \/>Mittelstadt-Samson<\/p>\n<p>Dobes<br \/>Fowler<\/p>\n<p>Buy Montreal Hockey Gear Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/montreal-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=montreal&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Montreal Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Halliday appeared in 30 games for Ottawa last season. He had 11 points on four goals and seven assists; he was even in plus\/minus. He also appeared in 29 games at Belleville where he had 29 points on two goals and 27 assists; he was a -14. <\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lane Huston had a goal and two assists in Saturday\u2019s win over Toronto at the Bell Centre. His goal was the game tying goal and one of his assists came on the game-winner. Last season he appeared in 82 games recording 78 points on 12 goals and 66 assists. He was a +36 with two power-play goals.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottawa\u2013 September 23 vs. Split-Squad vs. Toronto Maple Leafs<br \/>Montreal\u00a0\u2013 September 26 Split-Squad vs. Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators (0-0-0)\u00a0vs. Montreal Canadiens (2-0-0) Venue: Colis\u00e9e Vid\u00e9otronDate: Monday, September 21Time: 7:00 pm ESTTV: NHL Network\/ Purchase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,502,21,4,72177,72,25,5157,73,1087],"class_list":["post-667859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-hockey","tag-lane-hutson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-preseason-game-preview","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-senators","tag-stephen-halliday"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117309513732412986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667859","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=667859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}