With Ottawa being on the second night of a back-to-back on the West coast with Mike Condon in net against a solid Edmonton Oilers team, this was a scheduled loss. The Senators had gotten six out of eight points in their first four games without Erik Karlsson, so a poor performance seemed inevitable.
However, Erik Karlsson seems like a luxury at this point.
Coming off of a 6-0 trouncing of the Calgary Flames, Ottawa carried their momentum on Saturday night. Just 6:09 into the first period of the game, the Hoffman-Pageau-Pyatt line made its mark, as Mike Hoffman somehow tipped home Tom Pyatt’s pass right in front of the net.