SPECIAL TEAMS

Past
(3-2-0) OTT 5, NYI 3 OTT 4, WPG 1 OTT 4, BUF 3 (OT) MTL 4, OTT 3 (SO) BOS 3, OTT 2 (SO)

SENATORS: PP 19.8% (11th); PK 88.4% (2nd) BRUINS: PP 15.8% (21st); PK 92.2% (1st)

Bruins (19-6-3) at Senators (16-8-6)

GameDay
TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M., Scotiabank place
LEFT WING

past

(2-2-1) WPG 3, BOS 1 PIT 2, BOS 1 BOS 4, WSH 1 BOS 4, FLA 1 PIT 3, BOS 2

TV: SPORTSNET, TVA

RADIO: TEAM 1200

TONIGHTS MATCHUP
FORWARDS DEFENCE
Sun hockey writer Don Brennan breaks it down
Marchand-Bergeron-Seguin line thriving Methot injury will be felt

SENATORS GAMEDAY lines

CENTRE RIGHT WING
Daniel Alfredsson Jakob Silfverberg Chris Neil Jim OBrien Sergei Gonchar Andre Benoit Eric Gryba Robin Lehner Ben Bishop

SENATORS
GOALIES
Player GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% Sergei Gonchar 27 2 18 20 6 14 1 0 2 53 3.8 Kyle Turris 30 8 11 19 3 14 3 0 2 69 11.6 Daniel Alfredsson 29 6 12 18 1 27 2 0 1 67 9.0 Patrick Wiercioch 26 4 10 14 5 29 2 0 0 50 8.0 Zack Smith 30 3 10 13 -4 32 0 0 0 55 5.5 Colin Greening 29 4 7 11 3 4 1 0 1 38 10.5 akob Silfverberg 30 7 4 11 8 10 2 1 2 83 8.4 Milan Michalek 15 2 8 10 5 4 0 0 0 28 7.1 Erik Karlsson 14 6 4 10 6 8 2 1 2 63 9.5 Mika Zibanejad 24 6 4 10 6 6 3 0 0 50 12.0 Chris Phillips 30 4 5 9 5 33 1 0 0 51 7.8 Erik Condra 30 3 6 9 3 24 0 0 0 50 6.0 Chris Neil 30 3 5 8 3 82 0 0 2 56 5.4 Andre Benoit 25 1 7 8 0 4 0 0 1 40 2.5 Guillaume Latendresse 11 3 3 6 5 6 0 0 0 25 12.0 Jim OBrien 26 5 1 6 -1 4 1 0 0 35 14.3 Jason Spezza 5 2 3 5 3 2 1 0 0 12 16.7 Marc Methot 30 1 3 4 -4 20 0 0 0 31 3.2 Peter Regin 21 0 3 3 -2 4 0 0 0 32 0.0 Eric Gryba 16 0 3 3 -5 16 0 0 0 30 0.0 Goalie GPI GS W L OT SA GA GAA SV% SO G A PIM Craig Anderson 15 14 8 4 2 459 22 1.49 .952 2 0 0 0 Ben Bishop 10 9 6 4 0 318 25 2.62 .921 0 0 0 0 Robin Lehner 6 6 2 0 4 222 12 1.90 .946 0 0 0 0

Guillaume Latendresse Zack Smith Colin Greening Kyle Turris Erik Condra Mika Zibanejad Matt Kassian Peter Regin Patrick Wiercioch Chris Phillips Mike Lundin

DEFENCE PAIRINGS

LEFT WING

bruins GAMEDAY lines

CENTRE RIGHT WING
Tyler Seguin Nathan Horton Jordan Caron Daniel Paille Tuukka Rask Anton Khudobin

GOALTENDING POWER PLAY COACHING OVERALL PENALTY KILL

Brad Marchand Patrice Bergeron Milan Lucic Ryan Spooner Jay Pandolfo Rich Peverley Shawn Thornton Gregory Campbell

GOALIES

Rask was solid in loss to Jets

Zdeno Chara Johnny Boychuk Dougie Hamilton Dennis Seidenberg Andrew Ference Adam McQuaid

DEFENCE PAIRINGS

= HOT = COLD

Bruins
Player GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S S% Patrice Bergeron 28 8 17 25 20 10 1 0 3 80 10.0 David Krejci 27 7 17 24 4 14 0 0 4 49 14.3 Brad Marchand 27 13 11 24 18 15 3 2 4 50 26.0 Tyler Seguin 28 10 12 22 19 10 3 0 1 92 10.9 Milan Lucic 27 4 13 17 2 57 0 0 0 45 8.9 Nathan Horton 28 8 8 16 0 11 0 0 0 79 10.1 Zdeno Chara 28 6 7 13 14 39 2 0 2 64 9.4 Dougie Hamilton 28 3 9 12 -1 8 2 0 0 58 5.2 Daniel Paille 26 5 5 10 1 8 0 1 1 33 15.2 Rich Peverley 28 4 5 9 -9 6 1 0 0 57 7.0 Dennis Seidenberg 26 0 7 7 7 6 0 0 0 44 0.0 Chris Kelly 23 2 4 6 -6 12 1 0 0 30 6.7 Andrew Ference 28 1 5 6 4 20 0 0 0 37 2.7 Gregory Campbell 28 2 4 6 -3 31 0 0 0 28 7.1 Johnny Boychuk 28 1 3 4 3 6 0 0 0 49 2.0 Chris Bourque 18 1 3 4 -6 6 0 0 1 24 4.2 Shawn Thornton 25 3 1 4 -1 41 0 0 0 30 10.0 Adam McQuaid 25 1 3 4 4 49 0 0 0 17 5.9 Jordan Caron 7 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 0 5 0.0 amie Tardif 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 Goalie GPI GS W L OT SA GA GAA SV% SO G A PIM Tuukka Rask 21 21 14 4 3 567 41 1.92 .928 2 0 0 0 Anton Khudobin 7 7 5 2 0 200 16 2.30 .920 0 0 0 4

Ottawa has 5 PP goals in past 6

Boston has allowed 1 PP goal in last 9

MacLean earning reputation as Magic Man

Senators have best home record (10-1-3) in the East and fourth best in NHL ... Senators have eight sellouts and are averaging 19,107 fans per game at SBP ... Senators have grabbed one point in each of their two losses to the Bruins this season .... Bruins Milan Lucic has gone 13 games without a goal.

PLUS

Dangerous opponent on losing streak

E. Karlsson, J. Spezza, M. Michalek, C. Anderson, M. Methot Kelly, Krejci, McQuaid

SENATORS

BRUINS

Senators have not defeated the Bruins in Ottawa since a 3-2 shootout victory April 7, 2009 ... Senators are 39-61-8-6 all time vs. Boston, and 21-29-3-3 in games played in Ottawa.

MINUS

Milan Lucic