Projected Lineups for the Senators vs Maple Leafs – 4/20/25

The Ottawa Senators take on the Toronto Maple Leafs for Game 1 of their first round series at Scotiabank Arena this evening. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

SENATORS (WC1) at MAPLE LEAFS (A1)

Eastern Conference First Round, Game 1

7 p.m. ET, CBC, TVAS, SN, ESPN2

Senators projected lineup

Brady Tkachuk — Tim Stutzle — Claude Giroux
David Perron — Dylan Cozens — Drake Batherson
Ridly Greig — Shane Pinto — Michael Amadio
Nick Cousins — Adam Gaudette — Fabian Zetterlund

Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen
Tyler Klevin — Nikolas Matinpalo

Linus Ullmark
Anton Forsberg

Scratched: Dennis Gilbert, Matthew Highmore, Travis Hamonic

Injured: Hayden Hodgson (lower body)

Status report

Tkachuk left the Senators’ regular-season finale Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes after the second period for precautionary reasons and briefly left their practice Saturday for medical attention before returning and is expected to play.

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Maple Leafs projected lineup

Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Max Domi — John Tavares — William Nylander
Bobby McMann — Pontus Holmberg — Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz — Scott Laughton — Calle Jarnkrok

Morgan Rielly — Brandon Carlo
Jake McCabe — Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit — Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll

Scratched: Dakota Mermis, Philippe Myers, Max Pacioretty, David Kampf, Artur Akhtyamov

Injured: Jani Hakanpaa (lower body)

Status report

Kampf, a forward, is available but, like Pacioretty, is expected to be scratched.

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