The Chicago Blackhawks will be playing their final game in a four-game Canadian road trip as they take on the Ottawa Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre on Friday night — you know, that team that has former Blackhawks sweetheart Alex DeBrincat on it.
Prior to this season, the Senators were looking like a potentially up-and-coming team, having picked up stars like DeBrincat and Claude Giroux to supplement their own homegrown talent like Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stützle, Drake Batherson, Jake Sanderson, and Thomas Chabot.
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It looked to all be for naught as Ottawa lost 13 of their first 20 games out the gate, but it’s steadily improved as the season progressed: the Senators are near the top 10 in every shot share statistic and have jumped from a lackluster .