The Senators are in Minnesota Tuesday night and will try to nail down their first six-game winning streak since 2017.
The Match-up: Ottawa Senators (33-36-4) at Minnesota Wild (35-29-9), 8pm Eastern, TSN5, RDS2
The Senators will go for their sixth win in a row, which is no small thing, especially if you believe in harbingers. They haven't won six hockey games in a row since 2017, which was the last year they made the playoffs.
The Sens will still be in good shape tonight if it's tied after regulation since the Wild likes to play overtime without a goalie. On two occasions last month, the Wild have pulled their goalie to go 4 on 3 in the extra frame. It worked the first time, helping earn the Wild an extra point. But they gave it right back on the weekend, getting scored upon, and surrendered the loser point they'd earned.
The Wild will skip over the Filip Gustavsson-versus-his-old-team storyline and give the net to ageless Marc-Andre Fleury. Fleury turns 40 in November and is the oldest goalie in the league by two years. Joonas Korpisalo will make his fifth start in six games.
Senators projected lineup
Brady Tkachuk -- Shane Pinto -- Drake Batherson
Mathieu Joseph -- Tim Stutzle -- Claude Giroux
Angus Crookshank -- Ridley Greig -- Dominik Kubalik
Boris Katchouk -- Mark Kastelic -- Parker Kelly
Jake Sanderson -- Artem Zub
Jakob Chychrun -- Jacob Bernard-Docker
Tyler Kleven -- Erik Brannstrom
Joonas Korpisalo
Anton Forsberg
Wild projected lineup
Kirill Kaprizov -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
Adam Beckman -- Marat Khusnutdinov -- Frederick Gaudreau
Mason Shaw -- Jake Lucchini -- Vinni Lettieri
Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin -- Zach Bogosian
Declan Chisholm -- Jon Merrill
Marc-Andre Fleury
Filip Gustavsson