NHL Game Preview: Ottawa Senators at Florida Panthers with Line Combinations 2/8/2025

Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers and Brady Tkachuk of the Ottawa Senators
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Ottawa Senators (29-22-4, 62 Pts) at Florida Panthers (33-20-3, 69 Pts)
Venue: Amalie Arena
Date: Tonight – Saturday, February 8
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: SCRIPPS, ESPN+
Radio:
Ottawa – TSN 1200
Florida – 560 AM WQAM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Ottawa +1.5 ML +145
Florida -1.5 ML -175
O/U 5.5

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Ottawa Senators News & Notes:

The Senators are coming off back-to-back losses to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Ottawa is 13-15-2 on the road this season. The Sens defeated Florida in their first meeting 3-1.

Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers have won four out of five games after a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. Florida is 16-9-2 at home this season. The Panthers are 29-4-2 when scoring at least three goals in a game.

Ottawa Senators Projected Lines

Tkachuk-Greig-Giroux
Perron-Stutzle-Amadio
Highmore-Ostapchuk-Batherson
Reinhardt-Gaudette-Matinpalo

Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Jensen
Kleven-Hamonic

Ullmark
Forsberg

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Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Verhaeghe-Barkov-Reinhart
Samoskevich-Bennett-Tkachuk
Luostarinen-Lundell-Rodrigues
Greer-Nosek-J. Boqvist

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Kulikov
Balinskis-Schmidt

Bobrovsky
Knight

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Players To Watch:

Ottawa Senators

Brady Tkachuk has 20 goals and 21 assists for the Senators. Jake Sanderson has three goals and seven assists over the last 10 games. Tim Stutzle scored twice in the earlier win over Florida.

Florida Panthers

Aleksander Barkov has 13 goals and 37 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has seven goals and seven assists over the last ten games.

Injury Report:

Ottawa Senators

C Nick Cousins – Out six to eight weeks
C Josh Norris – Week to week
D Jacob Bernard-Docker – Day to day
C Noah Gregor – IR
C Shane Pinto – Day to day

Florida Panthers

None

Next Game

Ottawa Senators – February 22 vs Montreal Canadiens
Florida Panthers – February 22 vs Seattle Kraken

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