Know The Enemy – Devils vs Ottawa Senators

Posted by SpeakoftheDevs on March 8, 2011

A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent –
Devils (30-31-4 / 16-13-3 at home) vs Senators (22-34-9 / 11-16-4 on the road)

- Game info: 7:00 p.m. start time at Prudential Canter. TV: MSG (HD) RADIO: WFAN 660 AM

- For tickets and ticket price data for this game, click here.

- Martin Brodeur will make his fourth consecutive start in net.

- The Devils have 18 points in their last 10 games.

- Dave Steckel is 16 of 31 (52%) on faceoffs in three games with the Devils. He still leads the league with a 63.2% faceoff percentage.

- Ilya Kovalchuk has 27 points (14g-13a) in his last 24 games. The Devils are 20-2-2 in those games.

- This is the third of four meetings between the teams this season. The Devils are 1-1 in the previous meetings.

- Senators are in 5th place in the Northeast division, 15th in the Eastern conference, and last in the NHL overall.

Sens	Stats	Devils
65	GP	65
22	W	30
34	L	31
9	OT	4
53	P	64
0.408	P%	0.492
2.25	G/G	2.09
3.11	GA/G	2.57
17.4	PP%	15.0
82.1	PK%	83.7
28.9	S/G	28.7
30.7	SA/G	26.7
50.4	FO%	51.3

2010-2011 Senators

#	Pos	Player	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%
65	D	Erik Karlsson	62	9	26	35	-34	36	3	0	3	134	6.7
19	C	Jason Spezza	45	12	21	33	-11	22	3	0	1	138	8.7
11	R	Daniel Alfredsson	54	14	17	31	-19	18	7	0	1	96	14.6
9	L	Milan Michalek	58	16	13	29	-12	43	1	3	0	142	11.3
71	L	Nick Foligno	65	11	15	26	-17	35	4	0	3	120	9.2
55	D	Sergei Gonchar	60	7	17	24	-16	20	5	0	0	96	7.3
13	C	Peter Regin	55	3	14	17	-4	12	0	0	1	87	3.4
26	R	Ryan Shannon	62	6	11	17	3	18	2	0	1	82	7.3
25	R	Chris Neil	63	3	9	12	-11	159	0	0	1	87	3.4
18	C	Jesse Winchester	55	4	6	10	-10	34	0	0	0	85	4.7
17	D	Filip Kuba	47	0	9	9	-28	10	0	0	0	52	0.0
16	R	Bobby Butler	19	6	3	9	-13	2	1	0	1	42	14.3
39	D	Matt Carkner	50	1	6	7	0	136	0	0	0	40	2.5
4	D	Chris Phillips	65	1	5	6	-26	32	0	0	0	66	1.5
15	C	Zack Smith	38	4	2	6	-8	61	0	0	0	54	7.4
38	R	Erik Condra	9	2	2	4	0	6	1	0	1	18	11.1
52	C	Colin Greening	9	1	2	3	2	4	0	0	0	18	5.6
10	R	Marek Svatos	14	1	2	3	-1	6	0	0	0	28	3.6
36	D	David Hale	13	1	1	2	3	6	0	0	1	11	9.1
5	D	Brian Lee	33	0	2	2	-3	22	0	0	0	20	0.0
37	C	Corey Locke	5	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	6	0.0
51	D	Derek Smith	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
47	D	Andre Benoit	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0.0
43	R	Roman Wick	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
42	C	Jim O’Brien	5	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	9	0.0
49	R	Francis Lessard	8	0	0	0	0	26	0	0	0	4	0.0
21	C	Ryan Potulny	6	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	6	0.0

#	Goalie	GPI	GS	Min	GAA	W	L	OT	SO	SA	GA	Sv%	G	A	PIM
41	Craig Anderson	40	38	2234	2.95	17	18	3	1	1188	110	.907	0	1	4
31	Curtis McElhinney	21	16	996	3.43	6	9	1	2	516	57	.890	0	1	0
33	Pascal Leclaire	14	13	763	2.83	4	7	1	0	391	36	.908	0	0	0
40	Robin Lehner	8	5	341	3.52	1	4	0	0	178	20	.888	0	0	2
31	Mike Brodeur	4	1	97	4.33	0	1	0	0	42	7	.833	0	0	0

NEW JERSEY Devils vs. OTTAWA Senators

All-Time regular season record vs Sens:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
43 – 20 – 5 – 1 – 0

Goals for: 186 Goals against: 159

All-Time post season record vs Sens:
7 – 11

Goals for: 40 Goals against: 41

Home games vs Sens: 27 – 14 – 2 – 0 – 0

Road games vs Sens: 23 – 17 – 3 – 1 – 0

Last season: 3 – 1
Nov 7, 2009 @ Ott – New Jersey 3 – 2 Ottawa
Nov 25, 2009 @ NJ – New Jersey 3 – 1 Ottawa
Dec 18, 2009 @ NJ – New Jersey 4 – 2 Ottawa
Jan 26, 2010 @ Ott – Ottawa 3 – 0 New Jersey

This season: 1 – 1
Friday December 10th, 2010 – NJ 2 – 3 Ottawa
Tuesday February 1st, 2011 – Ottawa 1 – 2 NJ
Tuesday March 8th, 2011 – Ottawa at NJ
Thursday March 17th, 2011 – NJ at Ottawa

NJD v OTT