Full Battle of Ontario Round 1 Playoff Schedule Reported, Dates and Times Revealed
Playoff information has been revealed for the Stanley Cup Playoffs first round matchup between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators.
The Leafs and Sens will meet up in the first round in the first playoff 'Battle of Ontario' since the 2004 Quarterfinals.
According to Sens insider Bruce Garrioch, game one between the two teams is scheduled for Sunday, March 20th in Toronto at 7p.m. EST.
Game two in Toronto is scheduled the following Tuesday, March 22nd at the same time.
Games three and four in Ottawa take place on the 24th and 26th at 7:30p.m., with any additional games if needed schedule for April 29th, May 1st, & a potential game seven on May 3rd, with those start times TBD.
Analyzing The Toronto Maple Leafs vs Ottawa Senators First Round Playoff Matchup
Toronto and Ottawa matched up in the playoffs four times between 2000-2004, with the Leafs winning all four series.
This season, Ottawa won all three matches against Toronto, including a 4-2 win back in March.
The Leafs are most likely to rely on goaltender Anthony Stolarz in the playoffs.
Stolarz, 31, who won the Stanley Cup last season as a backup to Sergei Bobrovsky in Florida, has a 21-8-3 record in 34 games played, along with a 2.14GAA and a .926sv%.
Likely to be the starter for Ottawa is Linus Ullmark. The 31-year-old has been impactful for the Senators in his first season with the team.
Ullmark has a 24-14-3 record in 43 games played for Ottawa, with a 2.67GAA and a .911sv% on the season.
The Ottawa Senators will have some relief on offense with captain and star forward Brady Tkachuk likely to return for game one.
Toronto is expected to have back all three of Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Jake McCabe, & David Kämpf for the playoffs, according to Leafs head coach Craig Berube.
The Ottawa Senators are fourth in the Atlantic Division with a 44-30-7 record with 95 points, having a 7-2-1 record in their last 10 games.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, winners of the Atlantic Division, have a 51-26-4 record and 106 points, 8-1-1 in their last 10 games played.
The Leafs last year lost in seven games to the Boston Bruins in the first round of the playoffs.
Toronto will be relying on the championship winning experience of Stolarz in net, as well as fellow Panthers teammates who lifted the Stanley Cup in Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Steven Lorentz.
For the Senators, this is the team's first playoff series since 2017, where they made the Eastern Conference finals, losing to the eventual cup champions, Pittsburgh.
No players remain from that last Ottawa team. Thomas Chabot, who played one game that season, did not appear in the playoffs.
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| Four | 21 | 5.4 % |
| Five | 142 | 36.4 % |
| Six | 198 | 50.8 % |
| Seven | 29 | 7.4 % |
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