Music: {allcanada} SENATORS (10-8-4) at LIGHTNING (15-6-2)

Friday, November 28, 2014

{allcanada} SENATORS (10-8-4) at LIGHTNING (15-6-2)

The Original Christmas Classics / Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Saturday, November 29, 2014

7:00 PM ET

SENATORS (10-8-4) at LIGHTNING (15-6-2)

TV: SN, SUN

Season series: The Ottawa Senators defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 in a shootout on Oct. 11. Robin Lehner made 38 saves in regulation and overtime before denying two of three Lightning shooters in the tiebreaker to earn the win. Mika Zibanejad scored the winning goal in the shootout.

Senators team scope: Ottawa dropped to 1-2-0 on its five-game road trip with a 3-2 loss to the Florida Panthers on Friday. The Panthers scored twice in the third period to overcome a 2-1 deficit at second intermission. The Senators, who fell to seventh in the Atlantic Division with the loss, are 1-2-0 so far in the second half of back-to-back sets, their only win in such games coming in a 3-2 shootout victory against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. Goalie Craig Anderson made 43 saves against Florida. Among goalies with 10 or more starts, he is tied with Pekka Rinne and Jonathan Quick for first in the NHL with a .932 save percentage. "You can break it down as much as you want. "It's a mental game. If you didn't play the right way, you were going to get embarrassed. I feel pretty [darn] embarrassed right now," Anderson said, according to the Ottawa Sun. "Mentally, we played a team that wasn't in the playoffs and mentally maybe that was our mindset -- that they're not in the playoffs [so] we should beat them -- and we didn't work for it." Lehner might be in goal against Tampa Bay with Anderson having played Friday.

Lightning team scope: Tampa Bay hasn't played since a 4-3 win against the New York Rangers on Wednesday. The Lightning traded defenseman Eric Brewer to the Anaheim Ducks on Friday for a third-round draft pick in 2015. Brewer played 246 games in five seasons with Tampa Bay, including 17 this season. The trade could mean defenseman Victor Hedman, who has been out since he sustained a broken finger against the Vancouver Canucks on Oct. 18, is close to returning. Hedman, who was supposed to miss 4-6 weeks because of the injury, is listed as day-to-day on the Lightning website. Tampa Bay will be looking to sweep its three-game homestand; they defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1 last Saturday before defeating New York. The Lightning are 9-2-1 at Amalie Arena and in second place in the Atlantic Division.

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