Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Pittsburgh Penguins (27-10-1, 55 points) and Ottawa Senators (14-17-7, 35 points) hit the ice at the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa for the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Pittsburgh fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on 105.9 WXDX while Ottawa fans can do the same on TSN 1200.
Pittsburgh enters play having won seven straight games while Ottawa has been on the losing end in its last three games entering tonight's game.
The Penguins are coming off of a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday that saw them notch 10 straight home victories. The team embarks on a four-game road trip starting tonight.
"We are just playing with a lot of energy," captain Sidney Crosby said via NHL.com. "Just keeping it simple and playing to our strengths, got a lot of speed in the lineup and trying to take the load off our of defense a little bit. I think our energy has been pretty good considering how many games we've been playing and how depleted our lineup is."
Crosby leads the team with 54 points off of 20 goals and 34 assists and is on a 10-game point streak while Evgeni Malkin has lit the lamp nine times and added 32 helpers for 41 points and Chris Kunitz has 20 tallies and 19 assists for 39 points. Malkin will miss his fifth straight game with a lower-body injury.
The Senators will look to bounce back from a 4-3 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday.
Erik Karlsson has one goal and five points in his last five games and leads the team with 34 points off of nine tallies and 25 helpers while Bobby Ryan has found the back of the net 16 times and added 17 assists for 33 points and Jason Spezza has 11 makers and 18 assists for 29 points.
Marc-Andre Fleury will likely man the crease for Pittsburgh tonight and is 21-8-1 with a 2.04 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage while Craig Anderson will likely be between the pipes for Ottawa and is 9-9-4 with a 3.42 GAA and a .897 save percentage.
The Penguins will look for their eighth straight victory while the Senators will hope to bounce back from a tough loss when these teams faceoff tonight in Ottawa.
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