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Game 19 Hub: Los Angeles Kings vs Ottawa Senators

Your Ottawa Senators are having their best November in recent memory, having picked up points in each of the six games they’ve played so far this month.

Tonight’s contest against the Los Angeles Kings will be the last time they play at the Canadian Tire Centre until December 4th – a crucial chance to bank points before the annual road trip to California and the Southwestern United States determines our mood for the holidays.

Senators Lines:

Perron-Stützle-Batherson
Greig-Cozens-Zetterlund
Amadio-Pinto-Giroux
Cousins-Eller-Hodgson

Sanderson-Zub
Kleven-Spence
Jensen-Matinpalo

Ullmark starts. Travis Green also confirmed Hodgson is in.

— Julian McKenzie (@jkamckenzie.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T16:15:07.271Z

Linus Ullmark will start in net.

Scratched: Kurtis MacDermid, Olle Lycksell

Injured: Brady Tkachuk (thumb), Thomas Chabot (upper body)

Kings Lines:

Tonight’s @LAKings Line Rushes –

Armia – Kopitar – Kempe
Fiala – Byfield – Laferriere
Foegele – Danault – Moore
Malott – Turcotte – Perry

Anderson – Doughty
Edmundson – Clarke
Dumoulin – Ceci

Kuemper
Forsberg

— Zach Dooley (@DooleyLAK) November 13, 2025

The Sens will play a former keeper for a second-straight game, with Anton Forsberg starting in goal

Scratched: Andrei Kuzmenko, Samuel Helenius, Jacob Moverare

Injured: None to note

Game notes:

  • The Kings currently sit second in the Pacific with 22 points, with an equivalent 9-5-4 record as Ottawa.
  • Ken Holland’s Kings made a ton of changes in the offseason, bringing in veterans like Joel Armia, Corey Perry, Brian Dumoulin, and Cody Ceci to try and help them win a playoff round – something they haven’t done since winning the Cup in 2013-14, 11 years ago.
  • Outside of Perry, those players have really… struggled, sitting at the bottom of the Kings statistics in both shot attempts and expected goals.
  • The Fiala – Byfield – Laferriere is the matchup for Ottawa to watch out for, so it’ll be interesting to see how Travis Green deploys his one intact defensive pair. I wonder if it might make sense to play the Pinto line against Byfield and Sanderson against Kopitar.
  • After missing shifts last time out against Boston, Jake Sanderson and Nick Jensen are both in the lineup today. Sanderson jammed his wrist, while Jensen was crumpled on the boards, so it’ll be interesting to see if either are playing with bumps and bruises or if they’re both good to go. The Sens don’t play again until Thursday, so hopefully the players can empty their tank with an off day looming tomorrow.

The game starts at 7:00pm ET and you can watch it on Sportsnet One.

Team statistics:

Game 19SenatorsKings
Category#Rank#Rank
Goals/GP3.445th2.9420th
Goals against/GP3.5630th2.8911th
Shots/GP27.122nd29.59th
Shots against/GP25.87th26.711th
Powerplay %24.19th16.126th
Penalty Kill %66.731st77.821st
Corsi % (5v5 SVA)50.915th54.265th
xGF% (5v5 SVA)50.2915th51.8510th

Player statistics:

SenatorsKings
CategoryPlayer#Player#
GoalsStützle10Fiala9
AssistsBatherson12Kempe13
PointsStützle19Kempe19
ShotsStützle50Fiala60
TOI/GPJake Sanderson24:09Drew Doughty23:09

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