The Ottawa Senators return home once again to collide with the New York Islanders for their first meeting of three this season. Puck drop is from the Canadian Tire Centre at 7pm from TSN5, RDSI, MSGSN2.

Ottawa continues their woeful struggles on the road, which Green says the effort "isn't good enough."

At home, they have been cooking with a 5-1-0 record. Their only loss was against New Jersey.

The Senators are getting some good news as defenseman Artem Zub is returning to the lineup for the first time since Oct. 14 (9 games missed).

The Islanders come in tonight full of injuries as they are without the services of former Senators' Anthony Duclair and Mike Reilly; and top stars Matt Barzal, Adam Pelech; and youngster Alex Romanov.

Anton Forsberg could be earning his third shutout of the year as he is getting the start against Semyon Varlamov for Isles.

Projected Lineups

New York Isladners

Anders Lee -- Bo Horvat -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Maxim Tsyplakov -- Brock Nelson -- Kyle Palmieri
Pierre Engvall -- Casey Cizikas -- Simon Holmstrom
Matt Martin -- Kyle MacLean -- Oliver Wahlstrom

Scott Mayfield -- Ryan Pulock
Isaiah George -- Noah Dobson
Dennis Cholowski -- Grant Hutton


Semyon Varlamov
Ilya Sorokin

Scratched: none

Injured: Anthony Duclair, Matt Barzal, Adam Pelech, Alex Romanov


Ottawa Senators

Brady Tkachuk -- Tim Stutzle -- Ridly Greig

Claude Giroux -- Josh Norris -- Drake Batherson

Noah Gregor -- Zack Ostapchuk -- Michael Amadio

Nick Cousins -- Adam Gaudette -- Zack MacEwen

Jake Sanderson -- Artem Zub

Thomas Chabot -- Nick Jensen

Tyler Kleven -- Travis Hamonic

Linus Ullmark

Anton Forsberg

Scratched: David Perron, Jacob Bernard-Docker

Injured: Shane Pinto (undisclosed)


Players to Watch

NY Isles — Brock Nelson— the veteran forward has been whispered in the rumor mill for divisional rival Toronto. Nelson is behind Palmieri in goals on the offensively lacking Islanders at 5.

Ottawa — Noah Gregor -- both his Ottawa goals are game winners. Is a third on the way?

Predicted Final Score

OTT - 2

NYY - 0


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