GDT: Ottawa Senators vs Minnesota Wildlings - 8PM - TSN5 - The Enemy of the Night’s Watch Edition

[AchtzehnBaby]

Winter storm watch : The Senators did not skate this morning, but all signs point toward goaltender Leevi Meriläinen getting the start in net tonight against the mighty Filip Gustavsson

Senators projected lineup

Brady Tkachuk — Tim Stutzle — Claude Giroux
Cole Reinhardt — Josh Norris — Drake Batherson
Nick Cousins — Shane Pinto — Ridly Greig
Noah Gregor — Zack Ostapchuk — Adam Gaudette

Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen
Jake Sanderson — Travis Hamonic
Tyler Kleven — Jacob Barnard-Docker

Leevi Merilainen
Mads Sogaard

Wildling projected lineup

Batt Moldy — Marco Rossi — Mats Zucchini
Marcus Johansson – Joel Eriksson Ek-blah — Ryan Hartman
Marcus Folignot — Frederick Gaudreau — Yakov Trenin
Devin Snore — Marat Khusnutsov — Ben Jonsen

Bronas Jodin — Frock Baber
Declan Chisholmboy — Jared Splurgeon
Jon Merrill-Linin — Zach Bogosianianian

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Flowerboy

What to look out for

Batherson is due some goals

Wild Record: 22-10-4, 48 points, 2nd in Central Division

Senators Record: 18-14-2, 38 points, 5th in Atlantic Division

2023-24 Series Record: 1-0-1

All-Time Wild Record: 16-10-5 (9-5-2 at Xcel Energy Center)

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[DueDiligence]

Sens win 4-2 behind Levi

 

[Senscore]

If the Sens play like they did yesterday then they have a good chance to win

 

[Sun God Nika]

Sens would have won last night with Levi. I think he is going to have a good game tonight.

 

[thinkwild]

Starts half an hour after the canadian juniors. Remote finger will get a workout. Much more intense battle for the Sens that i hope they find a way through.

 

[SensFanInMTL]

 

[Adrianopolous]

Hell will freeze over before we win a game on the road vs Minneapolis

 

[Relapsing]

 

[darude]

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As Yorkie said, this'll be great motivation for these guys.

I hope the coaches are able to get the guys over the nerves they get when bad goals go in.

One bad one in and they suddenly try to do too much because they don't believe the goalie can stop em, and then that dominoes into actually unsavable goals. No coincidence that goals when we get bad goaltending tend to come in pairs or triples and close together.

 

[SanderSen]

At least it was a short tobbogan ride from Winnipeg to Minnie. Back to back is fine, just rip the bandage off of this road trip and move on. Merilainen will be the most interesting, and hopefully boring, part of the game to watch now that he has time and games with the team under his belt.

 

[StutzlingAway]

The out of town scoreboard has not been nice to us lately, we NEED two points, a 6 game win streak starts to get nullified when you've already went on a 5 game losing streak earlier in the season along with a current 2 game slide. Never lose more than 2 in a row is the motto regardless of who is in net if you want to make the playoffs.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

The out of town scoreboard has not been nice to us lately, we NEED two points, a 6 game win streak starts to get nullified when you've already went on a 5 game losing streak earlier in the season along with a current 2 game slide. Never lose more than 2 in a row is the motto regardless of who is in net if you want to make the playoffs.

Even Montreal is closing the gap

 

[PlayOn]

Glad they changed up the lines, let’s hope this works. Interesting mix.

Also Matinpalo gets to play!

 

[BigRig4]

Glad they changed up the lines, let’s hope this works. Interesting mix.

Also Matinpalo gets to play!

Has anyone watched Matinpalo? Do we have any hope for him?

 

[Ouroboros]

Kleven-Matinpalo were an excellent pairing for Belleville last season. They'll probably struggle to move pucks in the NHL though.

 

[Knave]

Pinto has been more dangerous than Norris when you remove PP time so I hope he makes the most of his audition in the top 6.

Norris needs to get out of his head with the double clutching on the PP and shit. Teams flat out disrespect him and get away with it because he can't one time it or even snap it quickly after receiving a pass. It makes life harder on Stutzle, Batherson, Tkachuk and Sanderson.

Hopefully Merilainen can continue to build on the solid foundation he has shown so far this year. Not amazing goaltending but goaltending a team can live with when they play like they did yesterday.

 

[SensFanInMTL]

That first & third line though lmaoooo.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Pinto has been playing the best hockey of his season. I don't mind moving him up to the "top line"

 

[Sensrule]

The teams behind us are kinda creeping up. Please win tonight boys.

 

[Nova Stutzlia]

Glad they changed up the lines, let’s hope this works. Interesting mix.

Also Matinpalo gets to play!

I was wishing for Gaud on Timmy's left side, and viola!

 

[Micklebot]

Kleven-Matinpalo were an excellent pairing for Belleville last season. They'll probably struggle to move pucks in the NHL though.

No worse than Hamonic in the respect, but yeah, I'd agree.

 

[Relapsing]

Pinto getting an upgrade after that sweet sweet play last night. Love to see it

 

[thinkwild]

JBD injured?

 

[Micklebot]

JBD injured?

Not according to tsn1200

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

No worse than Hamonic in the respect, but yeah, I'd agree.

Hamonic is fine...

Summary​

Travis Hamonic has played 15 seasons for 4 teams, including the Islanders and Senators. He has 52 goals and 185 assists in 875 games.