FLORIDA PANTHERS NOTES:
BAPTIST HEALTH INJURY REPORT
– D Josh Mahura | Games Missed: 4
Total Man Games Lost Due to Injury: 57 Games
PANTHERS vs. SENATORS
ALL-TIME vs. OTT: 49-52-3-5
ALL-TIME ROAD vs. OTT: 24-23-2-4
2022-23 vs. OTT: 2-1-0
CATS STATS
– Aleksander Barkov has amassed 25 points (12-13-25) and a plus-14 rating in 30 career games vs. the Senators. – The Panthers and Devils are the only teams that have not surrendered more than 35 shots against in a game this season.
PANTHERS AND SENATORS
The Panthers will faceoff against an Atlantic Division foe in the Ottawa Senators for the first time this season. Brandon Montour led all Panthers skaters with seven points (2-5-7) in three games played in the 2022-23 campaign. Matthew Tkachuk posted five points over three games (1-4-5) and led all Cats with a plus-five rating and 17 penalty minutes. Captain Aleksander Barkov scored two goals (2-1- 3), including the game winner, on April 6. vs. OTT.
SWEET NOVEMBER
Florida owns an 8-4-0 record thus far this month, tied for the league lead in wins as of games played through Nov. 25. Their 32 goals against ranks fourth fewest among teams with at least eleven games played from Nov. 1-25. The Panthers rank seventh in the league in penalty kill percentage (85.3) through 12 games this month. Sam Reinhart’s 10 even-strength points are tied for fifth in the league. Matthew Tkachuk ranks second among all NHLers with 52 shots on goal from Nov. 1-25. Oliver Ekman-Larsson paces all Eastern Conference defensemen with 4 goals in the month of November.
PACING PLAY
The Panthers average 33.5 shots on goal per game, tied for second-most among NHL teams, while allowing just 28.1 against – tied for fourth fewest in the League. Florida has also surrendered just 32 five-on-five goals against this season through 20 games, tied for second fewest among clubs.
OTTAWA SENATORS NOTES:
INJURY REPORT: Goaltender Joonas Korpisalo has missed the team’s two most recent contests with a lower-body injury; defenceman Thomas Chabot and forwards Ridly Greig and Mark Kastelic are on IR. The three players on IR are unexpected to oppose the Panthers this evening. Total man-games lost: 41.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS:
Re-assigned forward Roby Jarventie and goaltender Mads Sogaard to Belleville (AHL) on Nov. 27.
OTTAWA vs. FLORIDA – History:
2023-24 (0-0-0): Nov. 27 @ Ottawa, Feb. 20 @ Florida, April 4 @ Ottawa, April 9 @ Florida 2022-23 (1-2-0): 10/29/22 @ Florida (5-3 loss), 3/27/23 @ Ottawa (5-2 win), 4/6/23 @ Florida (7-2 loss) Series record: Overall: 57-44-3-5, Home: 27-21-2-3, Away: 30-23-1-2 Last Ottawa win: @ Ottawa: 3/27/23 (5-2); @ Florida: 12/14/21 (8-2) Last Florida win: @ Ottawa: 4/28/22 (4-0); @ Florida: 4/6/23 (7-2) Last OT result: 3/29/18 (3-2 OT win) @ Ottawa Last shootout: 3/26/22 (4-3 SO loss) @ Ottawa Most goals, game: Scored: 8, (12/14/21, 8-2 win); Allowed: 7, (3x, Last: 4/6/23, 7-2 loss); Both teams: 12, (11/19/18, 7-5 loss) Last game: 4/6/23, 7-2 loss @ Florida; OTT Goals: Giroux, Greig; FLA Goals: Montour, Barkov (2x), Reinhart, Luostarinen, Cousins, Forsling; OTT Scratches: Gambrell, Gauthier, Talbot; OTT Injuries: Brassard, Chabot, Chychrun, Forsberg, Hamonic, Joseph, Kelly, Norris; OTT Goalies: Merilainen (3 GA, L, 21:24), Sogaard (4 GA, 38:12); FLA Goalie: Lyon; OTT PP: 0-6; FLA PP: 3-6; Shots: 58-30. Career vs. Florida: Giroux leads all players in career games played (46), in goals (12), in assists (19) and in points (31); Hamonic leads in penalty minutes (44) against Florida.
HOME ON THE RANGE: Ottawa has posted a record of 6-6-0 at home this season … Brady Tkachuk paces the club with eight goals at home … Tim Stützle maintains the assist lead with 11 when the Senators have served as the home team … Stützle (three goals, 11 assists) also owns the team’s home scoring lead with 14 points when the team has last change this season … The Senators earned a record of 24-14- 3 at home in 2022-23.
BACK-TO-BACK GAMES:
The Senators will play back-to-back games on 14 occasions in 2023-24; the third begins Friday when the team visits Columbus before it returns home to host the Seattle Kraken for the only time this season on Saturday evening … The Senators played 12 back-to-back sets last season and earned a record of 7-5-0 in the first half of contests on consecutive nights (2-0-0 this season) while posting an 6-5-1 record (1-1-0 this season) in the second half of games on consecutive days.
ON THE POWER PLAY:
The Senators are 14 for 68 (20.6%) on the power play in 2023-24 … Brady Tkachuk maintains the team lead with three power-play goals this season … Jakob Chychrun and Tim Stützle share the club lead with five power-play assists … Chychrun (one goal, five assists), Josh Norris (two goals, four assists) and Tkachuk (three goals, three assists) are tied for the team lead with six points respectively on the power play this season … Ottawa has tallied multiple power-play goals in an individual contest on one occasion this season after having done so on 18 occasions in 2022-23 … The Senators were 72-for-306 (23.5%) on the power play in 2022-23.
ON THE PENALTY KILL:
Ottawa has allowed 12 power-play goals this season while having overcome 40 of 52 shorthanded situations to maintain an efficiency rating of 76.9% … Parker Kelly’s first shorthanded goal of his career, scored in the Oct. 11 season-opener at Carolina, is the team’s lone shorthanded tally of 2023-24 after it notched nine such markers in each of the past two seasons.
