Ottawa Senators at St. Louis Blues: game preview
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9that
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndThirteen points apart last season
Ottawa finished last season 9th in the league on 99 points. St. Louis finished 22nd on 86.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 50
Across 49 completed games, St. Louis lead the head-to-head 26-17-6.
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 28 Nov 2025, Ottawa were 16th in the league and St. Louis 28th. By 6 Dec 2025 it was 23rd and 28th.
Ottawa out-attempted St. Louis 323 to 258
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Ottawa Senators
St. Louis Blues
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 St. Louis. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Ottawa, 10 for St. Louis.
2025-26: 82 games for Ottawa, 82 for St. Louis.
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 sampleSt. Louis
Small sampleBrandon Saad has 5 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.
Brandon Saad vs Ottawa · game by game
See all: Brandon Saad vs Ottawa · game by game →Linus Ullmark has started most of these meetings
Linus Ullmark played 2 of the last 5 meetings with St. Louis, with a .936 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Linus Ullmark
See all: Linus Ullmark →OTT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Samuel Ersson .886 (2 GP)
Full game logSt. Louis crease
STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Jan
Two goalies used against Ottawa
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15Goals 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.
10 on the injury lists
Ottawa · injuries
St. Louis · 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).
Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.
Ottawa · 2026 draft
See all: Ottawa · 2026 draft →St. Louis · 2026 draft
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