Senators at Canadiens preview

SENATORS (8-8-6) at CANADIENS (10-12-3)
7:30 p.m. ET; SN, RDS, NHL.TV

Montreal goaltender Carey Price has allowed one goal while winning consecutive starts since returning from a lower-body injury that sidelined him for 10 games.
Goaltender Mike Condon will make his first start in five games for Ottawa, which is on a 0-5-1 skid entering the opener of a seven-game road trip.

Players to watch

Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson has no points during the Senators' losing streak after getting 17 points (one goal, 16 assists) in the previous 10 games.
Price has stopped 73 of 74 shots in the past two games after going 3-7-1 with a 3.77 goals-against-average and .877 save percentage in 11 starts before he was injured.

They said it

"Sometimes you can play the way that you want and still not win games. That's how tight this League is and I think that we all know that. We've found ways to lose games recently, and that's something that we created for ourselves and something that we are going to have get ourselves out of." -- Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson
"There's a lot of emotions when we play them and we know that we didn't see their best last time we played them, and we're expecting to see their best (Wednesday) night. Obviously it's huge points on the line whenever it's in the division, and especially with the that hole we dug ourselves this year, so we've got to show our best." -- Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty

Senators projected lineup

Mike Hoffman -- Matt Duchene -- Mark Stone
Zack Smith -- Derick Brassard -- Bobby Ryan
Ryan Dzingel -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Tom Pyatt
Alexandre Burrows -- Nate Thompson -- Gabriel Dumont
Johnny Oduya -- Erik Karlsson
Dion Phaneuf -- Cody Ceci
Fredrik Claesson -- Ben Harpur
Mike Condon
Craig Anderson
Scratched:Thomas Chabot
Injured:Chris Wideman (groin), Mark Borowiecki (concussion)

Canadiens projected lineup

Alex Galchenyuk -- Jonathan Drouin -- Paul Byron
Max Pacioretty -- Phillip Danault -- Andrew Shaw
Charles Hudon -- Tomas Plekanec -- Brendan Gallagher
Nicolas Deslauriers -- Jacob de la Rose -- Byron Froese
Karl Alzner -- Jeff Petry
Joe Morrow -- Jordie Benn
Victor Mete -- David Schlemko
Carey Price
Antti Niemi
Scratched:Brandon Davidson, Jakub Jerabek
Injured:Shea Weber (lower body), Al Montoya (concussion), Artturi Lehkonen (lower body), Nikita Scherbak (knee), Ales Hemsky (concussion-like symptoms)

Status report

The Canadiens did not hold a morning skate. ... Weber did not practice Tuesday and won't play, but will travel to Detroit, where the Canadiens play Thursday. Schlemko will make his season debut.

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Stat pack

Drouin and Galchenyuk each has three points (one goal, two assists) in two games. ... Ottawa has not lost seven consecutive games since going 0-6-1 from Jan. 21 to Feb. 7, 2012. Stone has 11 points (six goals, five assists) in 10 games.