Oilers vs Senators

Edmonton Oilers continue their post all-star game road trip with a matinee affair in Ottawa. This is a games the Oilers should win.

Taking a look at these lineups there is no doubt as to why the Edmonton Oilers are favoured to win this game. The Edmonton Oilers are on the first game of a back-to-back versus Canadian clubs as they take on the Ottawa Senators today at 10:30 AM. The Oilers are in the middle of a fight for the Pacific Division lead; every point counts right now.

After 11 days of no hockey, a tough team stands in the way of a five-game winning streak.

# - Edmonton, while lacking offensive depth, do have a few weapons outside of their dynamic duo, particularly Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zach Hyman, with 62 and 60 points respectively. - Mark Kastelic is currently playing in Belleville, while Austin Watson and Nikita Zaitsev are likely healthy scratches today. The two would form the best shutdown pair Ottawa could reasonably hope for, to hold off the Oilers’ top forwards, and Chabot’s partnership with Nick Holden hasn’t been bad by any means. It gets more ridiculous the more I look at it. McDavid leads the league with 94 points (including 41 goals) in just 52 games, while Draisaitl is second with 76 in 50.

Connor McDavid and Zach Hyman had a goal and an assist each to lead the Edmonton Oilers past the Ottawa Senators 6-3 on Saturday.

"I was just kind of on Chabot right away and just trying to get the puck back somehow and (create) a chance. The Senators were 3-2 winners in overtime in Ottawa on Jan. The Oilers were 1-4 on the power play. At 1:44, after being hooked by Alex DeBrincat, Hyman scored on his penalty shot to give the Oilers a 2-1 lead. "Just the way he takes care of himself on the ice, off the ice, how great of a pro he is and how good of a person he is too, you never want to see that." Mads Sogaard took over in goal for the Senators stopping all three shots he faced. It's their third game and it's our first from break, so we expected their push and their jump. "It's not a fun play to be a part of. "I think we made two critical mistakes and both end up in our net," Senators coach DJ Smith said. Kulak made a great cross-ice pass into the Senators zone for Jesse Puljujarvi who beat He then sent a pass in front that was literally chopped in by Derek Ryan 7:24. 31 while the [Edmonton Oilers](/hockey/nhl/teams/edmonton-oilers/) were playing their third game this week.

The Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senator played a skilled and spirited game, with the key moment in the game coming off a devastating Jesse Puljujarvi strike…

He made solid saves off of a DeBrincat and Stutzle one-timers in the first, and shut down Brady Tkachuk in the crease, with Pinto hitting the post. He knocked a dangerous loose puck out of the crease in the first. He played the man hard a few times as well as the game went on. But he made up for it with a scintillating stretch pass to send in Puljujarvi on the big goal, then rushed the puck up ice smartly and fed it into the slot for Ryan’s chop shot of an insurance goal. He got clobbered with a hard hit early in the second, then fanned on the puck, kicking off a breakaway for Derick Brassard. He was one of the culprit’s on Ottawa’s second goal, kicking off the Sequence of Pain by allowing a hard pass into the slot. He used his heavy stick to break up a threatening Sens attack on the power play late in the second. He failed to cash in on a great pass from Drai late in the second. He scored a second insurance goal for the Oil in the third on a hot mess of a scramble in front of the Sens net where Nuge dug out the puck and coldly put it upstairs, all alligator blood on that one. Drai rifled a hard shot on net early on a power play, his first shot on net in three games. If a team is looking to pick up Puljujarvi on the cheap, this is the kind of play he has in him, the kind of play he might well more regularly make in the future. He was tardy on the backcheck on Ottawa’s first goal, allowing a hard slot shot from Jake Sanderson.

Connor McDavid collected a goal and two assists on Saturday, helping the Edmonton Oilers extend their point streak to 11 games with a 6-3 win against the ...

It's the fourth point streak of McDavid's career that has lasted at least 15 games. The Oilers reportedly been trying to trade the former No. He was replaced in net by Mads Sogaard, who made three saves.

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Connor McDavid and Zach Hyman had a goal and an assist each to lead the Edmonton Oilers past the Ottawa Senators 6-3 on Saturday.

Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy had 28 saves, allowing only Jamie Benn’s 21st goal this season in the second period. Jesse Puljujarvi, Derek Ryan and Ryan McLeod also scored for the Oilers, while Jack Campbell had 26 saves. Jake Sanderson, Claude Giroux and Erik Brannstrom scored for the Senators, who saw their four-game streak end. Jakob Pelletier, Mikael Backlund, Nazem Kadri and Dennis Gilbert also scored, while Jacob Markstrom made 21 saves. Tage Thompson and Casey Mittelstadt scored for the Sabres, and goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 33 saves. (AP) — Calgary scored four times in just over five minutes in the second period to rally and eventually beat Buffalo.

A serious injury to goalie Anton Forsberg silenced the capacity crowd and took the life out of what had been a wildly entertaining game, which the Senators ...

97 was in the vicinity of the net, Hyman just threw a puck wide of the net, where McDavid played it off the carom and threw it at Forsberg’s feet. The Oilers outshot the Senators 40-29. He’s a leader and it just sucks to see that.” While Edmonton was back in action with two games this week (a win in Detroit Tuesday and shootout loss to Philadelphia Thursday), the Sens hadn’t played since Jan. On a ridiculous solo effort by McDavid while shorthanded, the visitors moved up 3-1. Smith was lamenting a couple of big mistakes that cost the Sens in this game. Given the long layoff before and after the All-Star Game, this matinee figured to be problematic. But the No. A big, strong, tough guy, Forsberg was grimacing in pain as he left the ice with an apparent injury to his leg after he got twisted up with Hyman. To make matters worse, Ottawa’s brilliant rookie defenceman, Jake Sanderson, also left the game in the third period with an undisclosed injury. Sogaard stopped all three shots he faced in the final five-plus minutes of Saturday’s game. Forsberg was trying to make a save on an Edmonton power play when Oilers forward [Zach Hyman](/hockey/nhl/players/zach-hyman/555393) fell on him.

Oilers forward Zach Hyman landed on Senators goalie Anton Forsberg after being checked by Travis Hamonic. Forsberg left the ice on a stretcher.

He also had stopped 21 of 22 shots in a 2-1 victory against the New York Islanders on Jan. Several minutes later, a stretcher was called for and Forsberg left the ice that way. He was checked by Senators defenseman Travis Hamonic and landed on the goaltender's leg.