Ottawa Senators at New Jersey Devils: game preview
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9that
New JerseyDevils2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 42-37-3 · 87 pts · 21stTwelve points apart last season
Ottawa finished last season 9th in the league on 99 points. New Jersey finished 21st on 87.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 137
Across 136 completed games, New Jersey lead the head-to-head 78-45-13.
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 9 Dec 2025, Ottawa were 25th in the league and New Jersey 15th. By 12 Apr 2026 it was 10th and 21st.
New Jersey out-attempted Ottawa 287 to 264
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Ottawa Senators
New Jersey Devils
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 New Jersey. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Ottawa, 10 for New Jersey.
2025-26: 82 games for Ottawa, 82 for New Jersey.
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 sampleNew Jersey
Small sampleBrady Tkachuk 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.
Brady Tkachuk vs New Jersey · game by game
See all: Brady Tkachuk vs New Jersey · game by game →Jake Allen has started most of these meetings
Jake Allen played 2 of the last 5 meetings with Ottawa, with a .885 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 28 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Linus Ullmark
See all: Linus Ullmark →OTT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Feb
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Samuel Ersson .886 (2 GP)
Full game logJake Allen
See all: Jake Allen →NJD · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Feb
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Nico Daws .813 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
New Jersey2.004.332.803.10Goals 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.
11 on the injury lists
Ottawa · injuries
New Jersey · 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).
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers. Placed C/RW Marc McLaughlin, LD Vladislav Kolyachonok, G David Rittich, LW Riley Tufte, LD Topias Vilen, and C/RW Colin White on waivers.
Assigned Ds Mikael Diotte, Ethan Edwards, Jeremy Hanzel, Etienne Morin and Anton Silaev, Fs Josh Filmon, Lenni Hameenaho, Shane Lachance, Matyas Melovsky, Xavier Parent, Cam Squires and Ben Steeves and G Jakub Malek to Utica (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Utica Ds DJ King, Charles Leddy and Eamon Powell, Fs Tristan Ashbrook, Zachary Gallant, Gabe Klassen, Jack Malone, Justin Pearson, Ryan Schmelzer, Cristophe Tellier and Jermey Wilmer and Gs Jeremy Brodeur and Seth Eisele.
Ottawa · 2026 draft
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