Toronto Maple Leafs @ Ottawa Senators
07:00 PM at Canadian Tire Centre
Watch on: SN, CBC, SN360, TVAS2

The Leafs last game was at home on January 22 against the Columbus Blue Jackets, which Toronto lost by a score of 5-1 in regulation. The Leafs have a record of 30-17-2 for a 0.633 Points %.

The Ottawa Senators last played away on January 23 against the Boston Bruins. The Senators lost by a score of 2-0 in regulation, and their current league record is 24-20-4 for a 0.542 Points %.

Them

You can't even count on the Sens to beat the Bruins.

I don't know why it feels like we've played this team a million times – maybe preseason – but this is only the second meeting of the regular season. Let's remind ourselves how the first one went:

Leafs lose by doing pretty much everything badly
Sens did everything pretty good.

Oh. Yeah, that game. In the Leafs defence it was during Auston Matthews trip to a European spa, so Max Domi was the 1C. But they were all really awful. The Sens were not anything other than okay, and their record this season says that's what they usually are.

The Sens have had some injuries on defence, but Jake Sanderson is back and so is Travis Hamonic. Linus Ullmark is practicing, but hasn't played yet.

Lines

Morning skate

Brady Tkachuk - Tim Stützle - David Perron
Claude Giroux - Ridly Greig - Drake Batherson
Nick Cousins - Shane Pinto - Michael Amadio
Matthew Highmore - Zack Ostapchuk - Adam Gaudette

Jake Sanderson - Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot - Travis Hamonic
Tyler Kleven - Nikolas Matinpalo

Anton Forsberg - starter
Levi Merilainen/Linus Ullmark

Us

Matt Knies is not ready to play, so the practice lines from yesterday will be the likely lineup tonight. Connor Dewar has been put on IR and Nikita Grebenkin was recalled.

Lines

Mark Masters via Daily Faceoff

Bobby McMann - Auston Matthews - Mitch Marner
Max Domi - Pontus Holmberg - William Nylander
Steven Lorentz - David Kämpf - Nicholas Robertson
Jacob Quillan - Fraser Minten - Ryan Reaves

Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Chris Tanev
Morgan Rielly - Jake McCabe
Simon Benoit - Philippe Myers

Joe Woll - starter
Matt Murray

The Game

It's not possible to do worse than the last game against the Sens.