Sens head coach Guy Boucher re-confirmed the news about Stone and Brassard earlier today in Toronto which should give a big boost to the team's top 6 forwards.
"When we have all of our players, it's a different look," said Boucher. "But I think that's only happened once this year."
The Sens will once again deploy the 11 forwards and 7 defencemen formation which gives the coach some flexibility with his bottom 6. If Thursday's game against the Predators is any indication, Boucher will rotate his centres through the 4th line giving Brassard, Matt Duchene and Jean-Gabriel Pageau some extra ice-time and altering the look of his 4th line shift-over-shift in the hopes of creating some more favourable match-ups on the road.
With that, here's look at the Sens' projected line-up for tonight:
Hoffman - Duchene - White
Dzingel - Brassard - Stone
Smith - Pageau - Pyatt
Paajarvi - DiDomenico
Oduya - Karlsson
Phaneuf - Ceci
Chabot - Borowiecki
Claesson
The Sens are still without Bobby Ryan (finger), Nate Thompson (day-to-day), Chris Wideman (hamstring) and Gabriel Dumont (high ankle sprain) are all getting closer to potential returns.