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Saturday, October 31, 2015

{allcanada} Senators try for home-and-home sweep of Red Wings

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OTTAWA – The Ottawa Senators will be looking for their first three-game winning streak of the season when they play the Detroit Red Wings at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday.

The Senators defeated the Red Wings 3-1 on Friday in the first game of their home-and-home matchup.

"It was probably our best all-round game of the year," said Senators center Kyle Turris, who scored his sixth goal of the season. "We have the opportunity to follow it up with another good one and hopefully take both games.

"We were really on top of them in their zone. We put a lot of pressure on them offensively and we really took their space away."

Ottawa coach Dave Cameron said he liked the way the Senators played as five-man units.

"We have to play the way we've been preaching and it's play with some pace and support all over the ice," he said. "The way that we describe it is if I stop my video at any time no matter where the puck is and I see five guys in the picture, we're playing good hockey."

Craig Anderson will be in goal for the Senators after Andrew Hammond got his first win of the season Friday.

Peter Mrazek is expected to start in goal for the Red Wings, who have lost two games in a row.

The Red Wings are 1-5-1 in their past seven games after winning their first three games.

"Especially after such a good start, 3-0," Red Wings rookie Dylan Larkin said. "There's ups and downs and we're really feeling it. I think we just have to get back to working hard and playing our game."

Detroit coach Jeff Blashill juggled his lines on Friday with injuries to forwards Pavel Datsyuk, Brad Richards and Johan Franzen.

"Usually when Blashill moves (lines) around it works and generates some energy," Larkin said. "We're still trying to find combinations that work. We need to start making some plays and playing the way we were playing the first three games."

Here are the projected lineups:

RED WINGS

Justin Abdelkader – Henrik Zetterberg – Dylan Larkin

Tomas Tatar – Riley Sheahan – Gustav Nyquist

Tomas Jurco – Darren Helm – Teemu Pulkkinen

Drew Miller – Luke Glendening – Joakim Andersson

Jonathan Ericsson – Niklas Kronwall

Danny DeKeyser – Alexey Marchenko

Jakub Kindl – Brendan Smith

Peter Mrazek

Jimmy Howard

Injured: Pavel Datysuk (ankle), Johan Franzen (concussion), Brad Richards (upper body), Mike Green (upper body), Kyle Quincy (concussion).

Scratched: Landon Ferraro

SENATORS

Shane Prince – Kyle Turris – Mark Stone

Matt Puempel – Mika Zibanejad – Bobby Ryan

Milan Michalek – Jean-Gabriel Pageau – Alex Chiasson

Max McCormick – Zack Smith – Chris Neil

Marc Methot - Erik Karlsson

Patrick Wiercioch - Cody Ceci

Jared Cowen – Mark Borowiecki

Craig Anderson

Andrew Hammond

Scratched: Chris Wideman

Injured: Chris Phillips (back), Clarke MacArthur (concussion), Mike Hoffman (lower body), Curtis Lazar (upper body).

Status report: Hoffman and Lazar skated Saturday morning. Hoffman could return against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.

Who's hot: Ryan has two goals and two assists in his past two games. … Turris has two goals and an assist in his past two games. … Stone has three assists in his past three games.

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