Match-up - Senators (41-30-10 - 92 points) @ Devils (47-28-6 - 100 points)
Road/Home records - 21-13-6 -------------- 23-13-4
TV - MSG Plus (HD), CBC (HD)
Puck drop - 3:00 PM ET
Season series - Devils lead 2-1
Last 10: Senators 5-5-0 / Devils 6-3-1
Projected starting goalies - Craig Anderson (OTT) vs. Martin Brodeur (NJ)
Battle of the stats
Goals for/against per game
Ottawa - 2.98 / 2.86
New Jersey - 2.62 / 2.51
Powerplay/Penalty Kill percentage
Ottawa - 18.3% / 82.1%
New Jersey - 16.7% / 89.5%
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Senators:
Senators lines courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com.
Colin Greening - Jason Spezza - Milan Michalek
Nick Foligno - Kyle Turris - Daniel Alfredsson
Zack Smith - Jim O'Brien - Kaspers Daugavins
Erik Condra - Jesse Winchester - Rob Klinkhammer
Filip Kuba - Erik Karlsson
Chris Phillips - Sergei Gonchar
Jared Cowen - Matt Carkner
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Devils:
Zach Parise - Travis Zajac - Ilya Kovalchuk
Petr Sykora - Patrik Elias - Dainius Zubrus
Alexei Ponikarovsky - Adam Henrique - Steve Bernier
Eric Boulton - Stephen Gionta - Ryan Carter
Bryce Salvador- Marek Zidlicky
Andy Greene - Mark Fayne
Adam Larsson - Peter Harrold
Notes: Martin Brodeur is expected to start...Cam Janssen will sit as a healthy scratch...Adam Larsson draws back in for Anton Volchenkov (flu)...Stephen Gionta draws in due to a lower-body injury for David Clarkson. The Devils have won five consecutive games.
Senators to watch out for:
Jason Spezza - He has been quite effective against the Devils this season tallying four points (1G, 3A) in two games against them.
Colin Greening - He hasn't been producing superstar numbers, but he's been very good over the past three games. Greening has two assists, six shots and a plus-2 rating in that span.
Erik Karlsson - He's played in 80 games this season and has 78 points. He'll need a three-point game if he wants to average a point per game this season.
Devils to watch out for:
Petr Sykora - As I've said many times throughout the season, he's a streaky player and when he's on, he's on. In his past three games he has four points (2G, 2A).
Adam Henrique - He's two points behind Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Gabriel Landeskog for the rookie scoring lead entering today. I think it would be big for him if he could tie or pass them.
Eric Boulton - It looks like he'll be in the lineup today on the 4th line. He'll need to be effective and can't afford to take any bad penalties if he wants to be in the lineup Game One next week.
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