This might be the final game of the Ottawa Senators’ 2024-2025 season as the Sens and Toronto Maple Leafs conclude the two game home stand at the Canadian Tire Centre.

Ottawa has lost all three games so far through the series and only led for about 7 minutes of the 185 minutes played.

The rough housing continues to be the headline in this battle. Yesterday, the league handed down a fine to the Senators and Nick Cousins based on the pre-game antics of the forward shooting the puck on Leafs’ goaltender Anthony Stolarz.

Cousins and Stolarz are embracing the Ontario rivalry despite being cup winners with Florida last season.

The goaltending has been the big trouble in Ottawa as Ullmark has allowed three or more goals in all three games thus far. His new ticket kicks in July 1, and this performance does not match those future earnings. Worse, the offense has been limited to only two goals a game, having matched their foe’s game one output. It has been a nightmare series for Ottawa, but miracles are now needed to come back and pull a full reverse sweep to extend the season.

Projected Lineups

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthew Knies -- Auston Matthews -- Mitch Marner
Pontus Holmberg -- John Tavares -- William Nylander
Bobby McMann -- Max Domi -- Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz -- Scott Laughton -- Calle Jarnkrok

Morgan Rielly -- Brandon Carlo
Jake McCabe -- Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit -- Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll

Scratched: None

Injured: Jani Hakanpaa (lower body), Max Pacioretty (undisclosed), David Kampf (upper body)

Ottawa Senators

Brady Tkachuk -- Tim Stutzle -- Claude Giroux
David Perron -- Dylan Cozens -- Drake Batherson
Ridly Greig -- Shane Pinto -- Michael Amadio
Nick Cousins -- Adam Gaudette -- Fabian Zetterlund

Jake Sanderson -- Nick Jensen
Thomas Chabot -- Artem Zub
Tyler Kleven -- Nikolas Matinpalo

Linus Ullmark
Anton Forsberg

Scratched: Dennis Gilbert, Travis Hamonic, Matthew Highmore

Injured: Hayden Hodgson (lower body)

Players to Watch

John Tavares — the first pick from ‘09 has 2 goals and assists against Ottawa so far this series.

Thomas Chabot — only one assist and a team worst -4 in his first career postseason.

Predicted Final Score

TOR — 1

OTT — 2

OT

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