Sens journey to Washington for first assembly of the 12 months

The Senators will look to proceed their momentum from Thursday’s 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at Canadian Tire Centre once they face one other Metropolitan Division opponent, the Washington Capitals.

Olle Lycksell’s game-winner — his first aim as a Sen — was a terrific encapsulation of the effectiveness of the workforce’s depth forwards that evening.

Ridly Greig centered the third line. He led the workforce with 4 blocked photographs, together with essential ones on the finish of the second interval when the Sens have been hemmed in their very own zone, and one other through the third on the penalty kill. He additionally drew a penalty quickly after when he was interfered with by Flyers defenceman Nick Seeler.

Another a type of depth forwards, Nick Cousins, skated with the highest line at observe on Saturday morning on the left wing of Tim Stützle. “We played around with different lines [for] tonight,” mentioned Travis Green.

“We’re going to probably see changes to our lineup as we go along, part of it’s just to spread out our centremen, we’re going to put Timmy back in the middle. I thought [Cousins] played pretty well the last few games, adds a different look to that line, and we’ll see if we go with it.”

Coming off an time beyond regulation loss to Edmonton and the win over Philadelphia, the Sens wish to string collectively back-to-back wins for the primary time this season. “I thought [we were] playing a little bit more to how we wanted to play, committed to both sides of the puck,” mentioned Green.

“It was a good step and we’re going to continue to have to improve our game,” added Green. “I believed these have been good steps, however we’re not fairly there. I believe our execution generally is a bit higher and that can lead to extra scoring possibilities.”