The Ottawa Senators have reached the midpoint of their season, still alive in hopes of ending their lengthy playoff drought. We’ve put together a midseason assessment of everyone’s performance, including the head coach and general manager.

The Ottawa Senators got a point but were unable to get the win as they fell to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of 3-2 in overtime.

Anton Forsberg made 17 saves, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped all 35 shots. Sabres HC Lindy Ruff on Brady Tkachuk check on Jason Zucker Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff discussed his team's ...

The Buffalo Sabres weren’t happy with the hit by Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk on Jason Zucker in the first period Thursday night. The team thought it should have been a major penalty and not ...

The Ottawa Senators will turn to their version of the Finnish Flash on Hockey Day in Canada . As the Senators prepare to kick off Hockey Night in Canada ‘s 25th annual version of the celebration of the game loved by millions of people in this country,

The Ottawa Senators return home with a tall order as they take on the best team in the East and League — the Washington Capitals. Washington leads the league with a 0.716 save percentage at 63 points in 44 games.

Let's get the big, obvious one out of the way first. Last year, the Sens were done in by horrendous goaltending. Ottawa finished the campaign 31st out of 32 teams for all-situations save percentage at .884 and a stunning -29.6 xGSA per Hockeyviz. It is, frankly, very hard to win in the NHL when your goalies play that poorly.

The Senators have struggled to score. Ahead of the season, the emphasis from Green was to prevent goals on a team that had battled to be effective in its own end. He’s succeeded, but Green’s team has laboured to score goals at the other end.

- The Senators are three games above NHL.-500 with a record of 21-18-3. The Sens had a hot December with a record of 9-3-1 and a .731 winning percentage that ranked fourth in the NHL for the month. Ottawa went on a six-game winning streak from Dec. 11-21, immediately following a 4-2 loss to the Isles on Dec. 8.

Trying to make the playoffs for the first time in eight years, Staois stated before the season that it was incumbent on the likes of captain Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Josh Norris, Thomas Chabot, Ridly Greig, Shane Pinto, Jake Sanderson and Drake Batherson to raise their games.

Catch tonight's game at 5:00pm ET in Ottawa or on TV on TSN5, RDS2, or Victory+. This thread might become active from 3:30pm when Steve Staios holds a mid-season media availability which will be streamed on the Senators website.

The Ottawa Senators are flirting with a playoff spot, which is something that hasn’t been able to be typed out in the month of January in a very long time.