Ottawa is just 11-18 on the road this season and just 5-11 vs their division.

Ottawa is giving goalie Mads Sogaard his first-ever NHL start in net. The 6-foot-7 Sogaard was 16-13-1, with a 2.87 goals against average and .906 save percentage with Belleville of the American Hockey League and his NHL experience amounts to one exhibition period in September. I really like to fade a rookie goalie in his first start on the road.