Boston Bruins at Ottawa Senators: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
OttawaSenators2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 44-27-11 · 99 pts · 9thOne points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. Ottawa finished 9th on 99, and the 2025-26 season series went OTT 3-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 178
Across 177 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 101-53-22.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 27 Oct 2025, Boston were 29th in the league and Ottawa 13th. By 5 Oct it was 16th and 6th.
Boston out-attempted Ottawa 272 to 252
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
Ottawa Senators
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: 4 games for Boston, 3 for Ottawa. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for Ottawa.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 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
Boston
Small sampleOttawa
Small sampleTim Stützle has 10 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.
Tim Stützle vs Boston · game by game
See all: Tim Stützle vs Boston · game by game →Linus Ullmark has started most of these meetings
Linus Ullmark played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Boston, with a .909 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jeremy Swayman
See all: Jeremy Swayman →BOS · 2-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 1 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Michael DiPietro .897 (1 GP)
Full game logLinus Ullmark
See all: Linus Ullmark →OTT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 1 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Samuel Ersson .886 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring 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
Boston2.252.753.323.05
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.
7 on the injury lists
Boston · injuries
Ottawa · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
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).
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Ottawa · 2026 draft
See all: Ottawa · 2026 draft →
Updated after every final