Welcome back! I hope you’ve enjoyed yourself over the 3-day break in games.
Ottawa had plenty of opportunity over the last two weeks to drop Boston out of the wild card entirely, but has been the host to a number of gruesome losses that they’ve only recently started to pull themselves out from under.
Of course, that only means that this game is a pretty important matchup, as the Sens have bumbled their way to being exactly one point behind Boston.
The Sens of course have benefited immensely from Boston’s decision to move on from Linus Ullmark, but to the eternal chagrin of the rest of the league, it does seem like they’ve managed to figure out how to make their top six a genuine threat most nights.