Music: {allcanada} PANTHERS (34-26-15) at SENATORS (37-25-12)

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

5:00 PM ET

PANTHERS (34-26-15) at SENATORS (37-25-12)

TV: FS-F, RDS, TSN5

Season series: The Ottawa Senators have won two of three games against the Florida Panthers this season. Ottawa forward Kyle Turris had a goal and two assists in the most recent game, a 4-1 Senators win on Feb. 21. Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo is 0-2-0 with a 2.52 goals-against average and .919 save percentage.

Panthers team scope: Florida is 1-1-1 on a five-game road trip which concludes Tuesday against the Boston Bruins. The Panthers trail the Bruins by four points for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference after a 3-2 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. Florida coach Gerard Gallant stressed the importance of their next two games. "It's just another game," Gallant said. "Obviously there the team we're trying to catch right now, [Ottawa] and Boston, and the next two games are huge but we got to take care of tomorrow and see where we go from there. … I'm happy. We're playing well, we're competing well and we would have liked to get two points tonight." Luongo made 22 saves against the Canadiens and likely will start, trying to win his 400th NHL game. Center Aleksander Barkov scored two goals Saturday for his first multi-goal game in the NHL. Jonathan Huberdeau had two assists and has two goals and four assists in his past six games.

Senators team scope: Ottawa is one point behind the Bruins for the second wild card into the playoffs from the Eastern Conference after a 4-3 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. "We didn't come out and play like we need to right now," Turris said after the loss. "We started a better second. We got up 2-0. It was the jump we wanted, we just had a big letdown in the third. We stopped skating, we stopped forechecking. We can't do that. We have to close out games, especially down the stretch here." The Senators have lost two consecutive games after a season-high seven-game winning streak. Goaltender Craig Anderson, who had been sidelined because of a hand injury, made 27 saves in his first start since March 10, a 3-1 loss to the Bruins at home. Andrew Hammond had started the past eight games (7-1-0). Turris had a goal and an assist; he has five goals and three assists in his past six games.

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