Tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET, the Ottawa Senators (19-18-7, 45 points) and Colorado Avalanche (26-12-4, 56 points) faceoff for the first of two meetings this season live from the Pepsi Center in Colorado. The game can be live streamed here. Ottawa fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action by turning their dials to TSN 1200 while Colorado fans can do the same on KRWZ 950.
Ottawa enters play on a four-game winning streak while Colorado had its three-game victory streak snapped and enters the sixth contest of its seven-game homestand.
The Avalanche is coming off of a 4-3 loss to the Calgary Flames on Monday and will look to bounce back.
"No easy game in this league. We have to learn this sometimes the hard way," goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere told the Denver Post. "You beat some good teams, and after that you have a day off and come out against a team that's behind you in the standings [and] sometimes it's hard to get going. As a group we have to find a way to win those games."
The Senators are coming off of a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday and know that this Western Conference swing won't be an easy task as it searches to extend its winning streak.
"It's going to be a good challenge," forward Kyle Turris said per the Ottawa Citizen of the next three games against western teams. "We've been playing better lately and it's going to be a better test for us now that we have kind of gotten on a bit of a roll."
Turris is third on the team with 32 points off of 10 goals and 22 assists while Bobby Ryan is second with 36 points off of 18 tallies and 18 helpers and Erik Karlsson leads the way with 39 points while lighting the lamp 10 times and adding 29 assists. Ottawa expects to have Jason Spezza (11-19-30) back from a hip injury.
Matt Duchene paces the Avalanche with 38 points off of 16 goals and 22 assists while Gabriel Landeskog is on a seven-game point streak and has 31 points while finding the twine 12 times and adding 19 helpers and Paul Stastny has one goal and four assists in his past two games for a total of 12 markers and 18 assists for 30 points.
Semyon Varlamov will likely start for Colorado and is 19-8-4 with a 2.35 goals-against average and a .927 save percentage while Craig Anderson is the probable starter for Ottawa and is 14-9-4 with a 3.16 GAA and a .904 save percentage.
The Senators look to extend their winning streak to five games while the Avalanche looks to start on a new winning streak when the puck drops tonight at the Pepsi Center in Colorado.
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