Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Ottawa Senators (10-13-4, 24 points) and Florida Panthers (7-15-5, 19 points) hit the ice live from the BB&T Center in Florida for the second of five meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Ottawa fans can hear all the action on TSN 1200 while Florida fans can do the same on 560 WQAM.
Both teams have an uphill climb after a third of the season has passed as Ottawa enters seven points behind the fifth place Toronto Maple Leafs in the Atlantic Division while Florida is 12 points out of a postseason berth. The first time these two teams met, the Senators beat the Panthers 3-2 in Ottawa on Nov. 9.
The Senators are coming off of a 4-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.
"We're not doing it hard enough," coach Paul MacLean said in the Ottawa Citizen. "We need to be harder. That might be harsh to say."
The Panthers have lost their last two games of their five game homestand after opening it up with a win. The team has lost by a combined score of 10-3 against the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins in their latest losses at home.
"We got guys here that have a lot of upside," Scottie Upshall told the team website. "We got a lot of young, good players that are going to be better professionals and better pros in the short term and in the long term."
Upshall leads the team with 14 points off of six goals and eight assists while Brad Boyes (eight goals, five assists) and Brian Campbell (three goals, 10 assists) each have 13 points.
The Senators, meanwhile, have been led by Erik Karlsson (7-20-27), Bobby Ryan (13-12-25) and Jason Spezza (10-12-22).
In net, the Sens turn to Craig Anderson, who is 6-8-2 with a 3.51 goals-against average and a .894 save percentage while Tim Thomas is 6-9-1 with a 2.89 GAA and a .903 save percentage.
Two teams in need of a turnaround take the ice tonight against each other when the Senators and Panthers go head-to-head in Florida.
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