Edmonton Oilers at Ottawa Senators: game preview
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14that
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9thSix points apart last season
Edmonton finished last season 14th in the league on 93 points. Ottawa finished 9th on 99.
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Meeting number 66
Across 65 completed games, Edmonton lead the head-to-head 38-19-8.
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 21 Oct 2025, Edmonton were 19th in the league and Ottawa 28th. By 3 Mar 2026 it was 12th and 25th.
Edmonton out-attempted Ottawa 112 to 96
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Edmonton Oilers
Ottawa Senators
Edmonton and Ottawa are level on 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 Edmonton, 3 for Ottawa. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Edmonton, 10 for Ottawa.
2025-26: 82 games for Edmonton, 82 for Ottawa.
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
Edmonton
Small sampleOttawa
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Edmonton crease
EDM · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Dec
No appearances against Ottawa in the last meetings.
Ottawa crease
OTT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Dec
No appearances against Edmonton in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.8 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
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28
Ottawa3.332.673.393.00Goals 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.
15 on the injury lists
Edmonton · injuries
Ottawa · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
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).
Edmonton · 2026 draft
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