OTTAWA SENATORS NOTES:
LAST GAME: Jan. 12, 5-3 win at Arizona: The Senators received goals from five different skaters to sweep a season-series from Arizona for the first time since 2016-17 with a 5-3 victory in the club’s first career visit to Mullett Arena. Tkachuk scored his first career goal at Arizona (the state of his birth) to open the game’s scoring and saw him equal Havlat for most goals by a Senator within their first five seasons (105). Brassard and DeBrincat would also find the back of the net for Ottawa before Kastelic registered his second career goal against Arizona and first in the Grand Canyon State for the former Phoenix Jr. Coyote. Zub into an empty net also hit the score sheet for the Senators. Giroux (on his 35th birthday) and Sanderson both provided two-assist contests. Guenther, Crouse and Hayton scored for the Coyotes. The win saw head coach Smith become the 150th bench boss in NHL history to reach 100 for his career. Forsberg made 26 saves to earn the win for Ottawa while Vejmelka turned aside 42 of 46 shots in taking the loss for Arizona.
Scratches: None; Injuries: Chartier, Joseph, Motte, Norris, Zaitsev; Shots: OTT – 47, ARI – 29; PP: OTT – 1-4, ARI – 1-2.
BROADCAST INFORMATION: This evening’s game against Colorado will be broadcast nationally on Sportsnet ONE and TVAS2 as a part of Hockey Night in Canada. On the radio, the game will be available locally via TSN 1200 (English) and 94,5 Unique-FM (French).
WHAT’S NEXT: Ottawa concludes a three-game road trip against St. Louis on Monday at 8 p.m. ET. The contest will mark the first of two regular-season meetings and the lone matchup at Enterprise Center.
INJURY REPORT: C Chartier, RW Joseph, LW Motte, C Norris and D Zaitsev are on IR and will not oppose the Avalanche this evening. Total man-games lost: 141.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS: Re-assigned D Bernard-Docker to Belleville (AHL) on Jan. 2.
OTTAWA vs. COLORADO – History:
2022-23 (0-0-0): Jan. 14 @ Colorado, March 16 @ Ottawa
2021-22 (1-1-0): 11/22/21 @ Colorado (7-5 loss), 12/4/21 @ Ottawa (6-5 OT win)
Series record (includes Quebec): Overall: 19-29-4-3; Home: 13-13-3-0; Away: 6-16-1-3
Last Ottawa win: @ Ottawa: 12/4/21 (6-5 OT); @ Colorado: 11/10/17 (4-3 OT)
Last Colorado win: @ Ottawa: 2/6/20 (4-1); @ Colorado: 11/22/21 (7-5)
Last OT result: 12/4/21 (6-5 OT win) @ Ottawa
Last shootout: None
Most goals, game: Scored: 6, (4x, Last: 12/4/21, 6-5 OT win); Allowed: 11, (3/26/95, 11-4 loss); Both teams: 15, (3/26/95, 11-4 loss)
Last Game: 12/4/21, 6-5 OT win @ Ottawa; OTT Goals: Tkachuk (x2), Stützle (x2), Watson, Norris; COL Goals: Helm, Landeskog, Newhook, Jost, Toews; OTT Scratches: Del Zotto, Gaudette, Mete; OTT Injuries: Brannstrom, J. Brown, Pinto, White; OTT Goalie: Forsberg; COL Goalie: Johansson (22:49, 4 GA), Annunen (37:22, OTL, 2 GA); OTT PP: 1-3; COL PP: 1-2; Shots: 34-31. Career vs. Colorado: Brassard leads all players in career games played (38), in assists (13) and in points (20); Giroux leads in goals (11); Watson leads in penalty minutes (49) against Colorado.
ROAD SCHOLARS: The Senators have a record of 8-9-2 on the road this season … Alex DeBrincat, Claude Giroux and Brady Tkachuk leads with seven goals on the road this season while Tkachuk ranks first with 13 assists while the Senators serve as visitors … Through 19 road games this season, Tkachuk maintains the club lead with 20 points … The Senators registered an 18-20-3 record over 41 road contests in 2021-22.
FRANCHISE RECORD: Ottawa has posted an all-time record of 1,023-1,001-115-179 over 2,318 games … The Senators are 559-445- 60-98 through 1,162 all-time home games and 464-556-55-81 through 1,156 all-time road games.
BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: Ottawa will play back-to-back games on 12 occasions in 2022-23 and will open their fourth set of the season on Jan. 20 when the team visits Pittsburgh ahead of welcoming Winnipeg to Canadian Tire Centre the following evening … The Senators played 17 back-to-back sets last season and earned a record of 6-9-2 in the first half of contests on consecutive nights (2-1-0 this season) while posting an 8-8-1 record (2-1-0 this season) in the second half of games on consecutive days.
ON THE POWER PLAY: The Senators are 42 for 155 (27.1%) on the power-play in 2022-23 … Drake Batherson leads with 10 powerplay goals while Batherson and DeBrincat maintain the club lead with 19 points while the team enjoys a man advantage … Ottawa has recorded multiple power-play goals 11 times in an individual contest in 2022-23 after having done so 11 times in 2021-22.
ON THE PENALTY KILL: Ottawa has overcome 117 of the 142 occasions the team has been shorthanded in 2022-23 to maintain an efficiency of 82.4% through 41 regular-season games … The team has registered four (Joseph, Motte, Watson x2) shorthanded markers this season after recording nine such goals in 2021-22.
COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
UPCOMING GAMES
Date Opponent Time (MT) TV Radio
Sat, Jan. 14 OTTAWA 5 p.m. Altitude / SN1 92.5 FM
Mon, Jan. 16 DETROIT 1 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
Wed, Jan. 18 at Calgary 7:30 p.m. Altitude 2 950 AM
Fri, Jan. 20 at Vancouver 8 p.m. Altitude 950 AM
Sat, Jan. 21 at Seattle 8 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
TONIGHT’S GAME
COLORADO vs. OTTAWA
5:15 p.m.
Altitude, SN1 / 92.5
The Colorado Avalanche opens a two-game homestand tonight against the Ottawa Senators at Ball Arena … The Avs will host Detroit on Monday afternoon in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee … Tonight is Game No. 41 and thus Colorado will reach the halfway point of its season following this evening’s contest … Colorado, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and Tampa Bay are all playing their 41st games tonight and will be the last NHL teams to be halfway done with their respective seasons.
ON THE CALL
Altitude: Marc Moser (play-by-play), Mark Rycroft (analyst), Katie Gaus (reporter)
SN1: Michael Luck (play-by-play), Jamal Mayers (analyst), Sean Reynolds (reporter)
Radio: Conor McGahey
LAST GAME
Jan. 12 – Chicago 3, Colorado 2 at United Center
Taylor Raddysh scored the go-ahead goal in the third period to break a 2-2 tie and give the Blackhawks a 3-2 victory over the Avalanche at United Center … Evan Rodrigues and Cale Makar scored for Colorado, and Nathan MacKinnon had two assists … Pavel Francouz made 27 saves in his first start since Dec. 13
SF: 33 SA: 30 PP: 0-5 PK: 3-3
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – OTTAWA SENATORS
Tonight is the first of two meetings between the Avalanche and Senators … The Avalanche will travel to Ottawa on March 16 as the second half of a back-to-back (Avs play in Toronto on March 15) … The Avs are 4-0-1 in their last five games versus Ottawa … Colorado is 11-5-2 at home against the Senators since relocating to Denver from Quebec.
SCHEDULE vs. SENATORS
Jan. 14 vs. OTTAWA
Mar. 16 @ OTTAWA
RECORD vs. SENATORS
THIS SEASON 2021-22 ALL-TIME SINCE 1995-96 ALL-TIME PLAYOFFS
Overall: — Overall: 1-0-1 Overall: 32-17-6 Overall: 19-14-4 No meetings
Home: — Home: 1-0-0 Home: 19-5-2 Home: 11-5-2
Road: — Road: 0-0-1 Road: 13-12-4 Road: 8-9-2
2022-23 SEASON NOTES
HALFWAY HOME
Tonight is Game No. 41 and thus Colorado will reach the halfway point of its season following this evening’s contest … Colorado, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and Tampa Bay are all playing their 41st games tonight and will be the last NHL teams to be halfway done with their respective seasons … Heading into tonight, the Avs have played exactly 20 games at home and 20 on the road.
GRAND CENTRAL
Colorado is 8-4-1 against Central Division teams this season, 4-1-1 at home and 4-3-0 on the road.
BACK-TO-BACK
The Avalanche will play 13 back-to-backs this season … They have completed four back-to-backs so far, going 2-2-0 in the first game and 2-2-0 in the second … The Avalanche posted a 15-5-2 (.727) combined record in back-to-back games last season, the second-best mark behind Minnesota (.732, 19-6-3) … The Avs finished 7-3-1 in the first game and 8-2-1 in the second (.773), with only Tampa (10-0-2, .917) posting a better record in the second half of a back-to-back.
2022-23 SEASON INJURIES
Gm Player — injury (games, dates)
15 Shane Bowers – upper body (Nov. 12 – Dec. 13)
30 Bowen Byram – lower body (Nov. 5 – present)
2 Andrew Cogliano – upper body (Dec. 21-23)
1 Jean-Luc Foudy – lower body (Dec. 5)
7 Pavel Francouz – illness (1 game, Dec. 15); lower body (6 games, Dec. 27 – Jan. 7)
6 Samuel Girard – lower body (Nov. 10-21)
35 Darren Helm – lower body (Oct. 12 – Dec. 31)
6 Martin Kaut – illness (3 games, Nov. 29–Dec. 3); upper body (3 games, Dec. 27-31)
40 Gabriel Landeskog – lower body (Oct. 12 – present)
3 Artturi Lehkonen – lower body (Dec. 5-9)
3 Jacob MacDonald – upper body (Oct. 12-17)
16 Kurtis MacDermid – lower body (Nov. 14 – Dec. 17)
11 Nathan MacKinnon – upper body (Dec. 7-29)
3 Dennis Malgin – upper body (1 game, Jan. 7 – present)
19 Josh Manson – lower body (Dec. 3 – present)
25 Valeri Nichushkin – lower body (17 games, Oct. 28 – Dec. 7); lower body (8 games, Dec. 27 – present)
11 Evan Rodrigues – lower body (9 games, Nov. 26 – Dec. 13); upper body (2 games, Jan. 2-5)
2 Devon Toews – upper body (Oct. 21-22)
235 TOTAL
2022-23 TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 2 – Pavel Francouz placed on Injured Reserve (retro to Dec. 23) … Darren Helm activated from Long-Term Injured Reserve
Jan. 10 – Pavel Francouz activated from Injured Reserve … Jonas Johansson reassigned to the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
Jan. 14 – Denis Malgin placed on Injured Reserve (retroactive to Jan. 5) … Sampo Ranta recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
