Game 27 Preview: Ottawa Senators @ Los Angeles Kings

The Senators are right back at it tonight, getting on a bus going the other direction from their hotel to visit the Los Angeles Kings.

Last night’s game was a significant improvement over Sunday’s game - but “better than Sunday” is about as low of a bar as you can set for the team this season. Let’s just get straight to the lines. There’s only one change.

Here are some thoughts on tonight’s game:

• Erik Karlsson may not have a point in 10 games, but he’s got 75 shot attempts. That’s third in the league. Something has to give eventually.
• Mike Hoffman is second on the team with 59 in that time frame.
• Guess which team has the best SV% so far this season? Of course it’s the Kings - just what a team that’s having problems scoring needs!
• Guess which team has the worst SV%? (It’s actually the Oilers, but the Sens are less than 0.1% ahead of them).
• Kings are expected to start Darcy Kuemper. Yes, he’s the back-up but he’s also got a higher SV% than Jonathan Quick does this season.
• This may be a surprise, but the line blender was mostly left on the shelf yesterday. There was some switching things up, but generally only for a shift then the lines were put back to where they were to start.

Here are some stats for tonight’s game, via NHL.com except Corsi/Fenwick from NaturalStatTrick.com: