Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nOttawa Senators News & Notes<\/p>\n
Linus Ullmark is back in the Ottawa crease. The goaltender was activated off injured reserve and returned Thursday against Colorado after a nine-game absence, earning the win as the Senators took the Avalanche 4-3 in overtime. Shane Pinto scored the winner on his birthday. The game also served as the debut of Ottawa\u2019s black-and-gold Hometown Remix jersey, unveiled late last month and the subject of a split reaction among the club\u2019s supporters. <\/p>\n
General manager Steve Staios has been surveying the trade market for scoring help, a search first reported a little over two weeks ago and one that has continued while the club finds ways to win. The team\u2019s travel also drew attention: per TSN\u2019s Bruce Garrioch, the Senators landed in Pittsburgh on Thursday before the FAA\u2019s nationwide ground stop halted flights across the United States, an order since lifted after thousands of cancellations worldwide. <\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes<\/p>\n
Defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk has returned to team practice, a step forward in his recovery and the first indication he is nearing availability. His progress gives the coaching staff another option on a blue line that has been shuffled through the opening month. Pittsburgh\u2019s most recent practice also featured new line combinations, roster exits and what one report characterized as a message delivered to the group, with goaltender Sergei Murashov among the names in the mix. <\/p>\n
Ottawa Senators Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Fabian Zetterlund \u2013 Tim St\u00fctzle \u2013 Dylan Cozens<\/p>\n
Line 2: Philip Tomasino \u2013 Shane Pinto \u2013 Drake Batherson<\/p>\n
Line 3: Claude Giroux \u2013 Ridly Greig \u2013 Michael Amadio<\/p>\n
Line 4: Sammy Blais \u2013 Stephen Halliday \u2013 Hayden Hodgson<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Jake Sanderson \u2013 Artem Zub<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Thomas Chabot \u2013 Jordan Spence<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Tyler Kleven \u2013 Nikolas Matinpalo<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Linus Ullmark \u2013 Samuel Ersson<\/p>\n
Ottawa Senators Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Drake Batherson \u2013 Claude Giroux \u2013 Dylan Cozens \u2013 Tim St\u00fctzle \u2013 Jake Sanderson<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Fabian Zetterlund \u2013 Shane Pinto \u2013 Stephen Halliday \u2013 Philip Tomasino \u2013 Thomas Chabot<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Shane Pinto \u2013 Ridly Greig \u2013 Jake Sanderson \u2013 Artem Zub<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Tim St\u00fctzle \u2013 Michael Amadio \u2013 Thomas Chabot \u2013 Nikolas Matinpalo<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Rickard Rakell \u2013 Sidney Crosby \u2013 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Line 2: Tommy Novak \u2013 Ben Kindel \u2013 Egor Chinakhov<\/p>\n
Line 3: Nicholas Robertson \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Line 4: Connor Dewar \u2013 Blake Lizotte \u2013 Rutger McGroarty<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Spencer Stastney \u2013 Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Samuel Girard \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Declan Carlile \u2013 Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Sergei Murashov \u2013 Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Ben Kindel \u2013 Tommy Novak \u2013 Rickard Rakell \u2013 Erik Karlsson \u2013 Sidney Crosby<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Justin Brazeau \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Egor Chinakhov \u2013 Kris Letang \u2013 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Blake Lizotte \u2013 Connor Dewar \u2013 Declan Carlile \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Rickard Rakell \u2013 Nicholas Robertson \u2013 Spencer Stastney \u2013 Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Players To Watch<\/p>\n
Shane Pinto \u2014 Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n
Pinto comes in off a three-point night, scoring twice and adding an assist on just two shots in 22:34 of ice time last time out. That was the heaviest forward workload on the sheet outside Stutzle\u2019s 23:33, and that usage makes him a reasonable anytime-goal look if the minutes hold.<\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin \u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n
Box Score Junkie has Malkin at 60.2% Corsi-for this season with 70.8 shot attempts for per 60 across 297 minutes, and he has six goals on 4.2 expected, a plus-1.8 finishing edge. He assisted on three shots in 20:04 last game. Territorial tilt plus conversion makes him a points-market play.<\/p>\n
Injury Report<\/p>\n
Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n
Nick Cousins (C) \u2014 Out, Upper Body, expected back Thursday, November 19<\/p>\n
Andre Burakovsky (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Friday, November 27<\/p>\n
Warren Foegele (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Knee, expected back Wednesday, November 25<\/p>\n
William Eklund (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Ankle, expected back Tuesday, January 5<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom (LW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Thursday, November 19<\/p>\n
Bryan Rust (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Saturday, December 5<\/p>\n
Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Saturday, November 14<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Knee, expected back Saturday, November 28<\/p>\n
Betting Odds<\/p>\n
Moneyline (DraftKings, as of November 14 at 4:12\u202fAM ET): Ottawa Senators -130, Pittsburgh Penguins +110.<\/p>\n
Odds change through the day; check the sportsbook before betting. 21+. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n
Next Up<\/p>\n
Ottawa Senators: visit the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday, November 17.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins: host the St. Louis Blues on Thursday, November 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside The Rink Gameday Graphic The Ottawa Senators visit the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[73000,1495,5,5236,3714,539,4,5573,72,25,5157,100,8874,73,102,1795,30241],"class_list":["post-711348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-2026-27-nhl-regular-season","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-line-combinations","tag-linus-ullmark","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ppg-paints-arena","tag-senators","tag-sergei-murashov","tag-shane-pinto","tag-trevor-van-riemsdyk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117614759411739133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711348","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=711348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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