OTTAWA SENATORS NOTES:
LAST GAME: Oct. 24, 6-4 loss vs. Buffalo: Skinner and Thompson (who had a game-high three points) both scored twice in pacing the Sabres to a 6-4 win over the Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. Girgensons and Tuch also scored for Buffalo while Chychrun, Joseph, Norris and Tarasenko replied for Ottawa. Joseph’s marker, which brought the home side to within one at 18:58 of the third period after it had trailed by four with less than five minutes to play, was the Senators’ 3,500th goal on home ice and the team’s 6,700th in franchise history. Luukkonen made 34 saves to earn the win in goal for the Sabres. Forsberg made 13 saves on 18 shots through 40 minutes in taking the loss for Ottawa. Korpisalo stopped each of the five third period shots he faced in relief. Scratches: None; Injuries: Zub; Shots: OTT – 38, BUF
- 24; PP: OTT – 1-5, BUF – 1-2.
BROADCAST INFORMATION: Tonight’s game on Long Island will be broadcast regionally on TSN5 and on RDS2. 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 brief two-game road trip when the team visits the Penguins at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena on Saturday at 7 p.m. The contest will mark the first of three meetings between the teams this season but the lone contest in the Keystone State.
INJURY REPORT: Defenceman Artem Zub has missed the team’s two most recent games with an upperbody injury and is not expected to oppose the Islanders this evening. Total man-games lost: 6.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS: Recalled defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker from Belleville (AHL) under emergency conditions on Oct. 23.
OTTAWA vs. N.Y. ISLANDERS – History:
2023-24 (0-0-0): Oct. 26 @ N.Y. Islanders, Nov. 24 @ Ottawa, March 16 @ N.Y. Islanders
2022-23 (2-1-0): 11/14/22 @ Ottawa (4-2 L), 1/25/23 @ Ottawa (2-1 W), 2/14/23 @ N.Y. Islanders (3-2 SOW)
Series record: Overall: 56-31-11-7; Home: 28-16-5-3; Away: 28-15-6-4
Last Ottawa win: @ Ottawa: 1/25/23 (2-1); @ N.Y. Islanders: 2/14/23 (3-2 SO)
Last N.Y. Islanders win: @ Ottawa: 11/14/22 (4-2); @ N.Y. Islanders: 3/22/22 (3-0)
Last OT result: 12/5/15 (3-2 OT win) @ Ottawa
Last shootout: 2/14/23 (3-2 SO win) @ N.Y. Islanders
Most goals, game: Scored: 9, (1/30/99, 9-2 win); Allowed: 9, (12/17/92, 9-3 loss); Both teams: 12, (12/17/92, 9-3 loss)
Last Game: 2/14/23, 3-2 SO win @ N.Y. Islanders; OTT Goals: Stützle, Tkachuk; NYI Goals: Pulock, Nelson; OTT Scratch: Brassard; OTT Injuries: Forsberg, Holden, Norris, Sanderson, Talbot; OTT Goalie: Mandolese; NYI Goalie: Sorokin; OTT PP: 1-3; NYI PP: 1-6; Shots: 34-48.
Career vs. N.Y. Islanders: Giroux leads all players in career games played (67), in goals (25), in assists (47), in points (72) and in penalty minutes (34) against New York.
ROAD SCHOLARS: The Senators have a record of 0-1-0 on the road this season … Mathieu Joseph, Parker Kelly and Tim Stützle are tied for the team lead in having tallied one goal each while Ottawa’s been on the road … Kelly, Joseph and Artem Zub share the road assist lead with one each … Joseph and Kelly also pace the club by way of sharing the team scoring lead with two points respectively while the Senators have served as visitors in 2023-24 … Ottawa registered a 15-21-5 record in 2022-23.
FRANCHISE RECORD: Ottawa has posted an all-time record of 1,046-1,020-115-184 over 2,365 games … The Senators are 575-451-60-100 through 1,186 all-time home games and 471-569-55-84 through 1,179 all-time road games.
BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: The Senators will play back-to-back games on 14 occasions in 2023-24 with the next set scheduled to begin when the team visits Toronto on Nov. 8 before it hosts Vancouver for the only time this season the following 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 (1-0-0 this season) while posting an 6-5-1 record (1-0-0 this season) in the second half of games on consecutive days.
ON THE POWER PLAY: The Senators are 6 for 27 (22.2%) on the power-play in 2023-24 … Josh Norris and Jake Sanderson share the team lead with two power-play goals each and are tied with Tim Stützle (one goal, two assists) with three power-play points respectively 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 six power-play goals this season while having overcome 17 of 23 shorthanded situations to maintain an efficiency rating of 73.9% … 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.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS NOTES:
LAST GAME
DATE NYI RESULT SCORE NYI SCORERS IN GOAL
Oct. 24, 2023
vs. Colorado
Loss COL 7 vs. NYI 4 Clutterbuck, Palmieri,
Holmstrom, Lee
Sorokin (32/38)
Islanders forward Cal Clutterbuck tallied a goal and an assist, while Kyle Palmieri extended his point streak on home ice to four games, but the New York Islanders fell to the Colorado Avalanche, 7-4, Tuesday night at UBS Arena. Anders Lee and Simon Holmstrom each scored their first goals of the season, and Noah Dobson tallied two assists as the Islanders suffered their first regulation loss on home ice in the 2023-24 campaign.
INJURIES DATE (GAMES MISSED)
Scott Mayfield Oct. 17 (Four)
2023-24 Man Games Lost: 4
2022-23 Man Games Lost: 209
SEASON SERIES
DATE LOCATION RESULT/TIME
Oct. 26, 2023 UBS Arena 7:30pm
Nov. 24, 2023 Canadian Tire Centre 7:30pm
Mar. 16, 2024 UBS Arena 7:30pm
THE ISLANDERS VS. OTTAWA
LAST FIVE MEETINGS (3-1-1)
Feb. 14, 2022 UBS Arena L/SO (3-2)
Jan. 25, 2023 Canadian Tire Centre L (2-1)
Nov. 14, 2022 Canadian Tire Centre W (4-2)
Mar. 22, 2022 UBS Arena W (3-0)
Feb. 1, 2022 UBS Arena W (4-1)
THE ISLANDERS VS. OTTAWA
2022-23 1-1-1
Franchise History 38-51-11-5
NYI Home 19-26-6-2
NYI Away 19-25-5-3
ACTIVE NYI LEADERS
Points Nelson (17), Barzal (16), Lee (16)
Goals Lee (12), Nelson (9), Cizikas & Martin (5)
Assists Barzal (12), Nelson (8), Mayfield (7)
UPCOMING GAMES
Oct. 28 at Columbus 6:00pm
Oct. 30 vs. Detroit 7:30pm
Nov. 2 at Washington 7:00pm
Nov. 4 vs. Carolina 7:30pm
Nov. 6 vs. Minnesota 7:30pm
TEAM NOTES
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
Tonight, the New York Islanders host the Ottawa Senators in the first of three matchups between the two clubs this season. The last time these teams met was February 14, 2024, when Brock Nelson and Ryan Pulock each scored to help the Islanders collect a point in the shootout. Tonight’s game is the Islanders’ third of the season against an Atlantic Division opponent (1-1-0), and they enter the matchup with a 7-2-1 record in their last ten home meetings with Ottawa. The Islanders have collected points in their last six consecutive home games against the Senators. They enter tonight’s matchup with a 5-0-1 record against Ottawa, dating back to December 18, 2018.
RECORD BY MONTH
MONTH RECORD HOME AWAY
October 2-2-1 2-1-1 0-1-0
