Ottawa Senators at Nashville Predators: game preview
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9that
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdThirteen points apart last season
Ottawa finished last season 9th in the league on 99 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went NSH 2-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 41
Across 40 completed games, Nashville lead the head-to-head 21-14-5.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 13 Oct 2025, Ottawa were 28th in the league and Nashville 4th. By 22 Jan 2026 it was 24th and 26th.
Nashville out-attempted Ottawa 314 to 286
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Ottawa Senators
Nashville Predators
Ottawa have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Ottawa, 3 for Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Ottawa, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Ottawa, 82 for Nashville.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Ottawa
Small sampleNashville
Small sampleRoman Josi has 6 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Roman Josi vs Ottawa · game by game
See all: Roman Josi vs Ottawa · game by game →Juuse Saros has started most of these meetings
Juuse Saros played 5 of the last 5 meetings with Ottawa, with a .921 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Linus Ullmark
See all: Linus Ullmark →OTT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Samuel Ersson .886 (2 GP)
Full game logJuuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Nov
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Ottawa3.332.673.393.00
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
Ottawa · injuries
Nashville · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled G Marcus Johansson from Belleville (AHL). Assigned D Donovan Sebrango to Belleville.
Recalled D Donovan Sebrango from Belleville (AHL). Placed LW Andre Burakovsky on injured reserve.
Loaned D Hoyt Stanley to Belleville (AHL).
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Ottawa · 2026 draft
See all: Ottawa · 2026 draft →Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →
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