The Ottawa Senators play their final home game before a three-game road trip tomorrow afternoon when they take on the Boston Bruins at 3:00 p.m. ET.
The Bruins are currently in a playoff spot but a lot of times are coming for them. First up on Saturday, the Ottawa Senators.
Sidney Morin scored her second goal of the game 1:45 into overtime and the Boston Fleet edged the Ottawa Charge 2-1 on Saturday.
Knocking on the door along with Ottawa are perennial Atlantic Division also-rans Montreal and Detroit. Also in the Eastern Conference mix are the Columbus Blue Jackets, who hopped over the Bruins in the standings on Thursday and are everyone’s sentimental favorite in this surprise run after the Johnny Gaudreau tragedy last summer.
Kicking off a busy end-of-January stretch for both teams, the Ottawa Senators host the Boston Bruins in a key Saturday afternoon clash of clubs on the Eastern Conference playoff bubble.
Ullmark has been out of Ottawa's lineup since Dec. 22 when he left a game after one period of play in Edmonton with back tightness. It sounded precautionary at the time but turned out to be reasonably serious. This is Ullmark's second stint on the injury list. He missed a couple of weeks of action back in mid-October.
The Ottawa Charge have one of the best fan bases in the league. Here's a look at the Ottawa Charge's two games from this week through the lens of The Hockey News' Ellen Bond.
TD Place, as the Ottawa Charge returned home after a lengthy, albeit successful, road trip to face off against the Boston Fleet on Minor Hockey Day. While the Charge entered on a hot streak, but were plagued by injuries and illness with forwards Katerina Mrázová and Anna Meixner,
The Boston Bruins had good news and bad news this morning at practice at Warrior Ice Arena. Forward Mark Kastelic was back at practice in a non-contact red jersey.
Boston was far less physical than usual, totaling just five hits in what was their fourth straight overtime game across 10 days, but found a way to win via Aerin Frankel and Morin.
Sidney Morin scored her second goal during the opening minutes of overtime to lead the Boston Fleet to an impressive 2-1 win against the Ottawa Charge in front of a sold-out crowd of 9,862 fans at TD Place Arena.
The 39-year-old winger took a pass from Rasmus Sandin on a 2-on-1 breakaway and fired it past rookie Leevi Merilainen, the record 179th goaltender he's scored on.