Monday NHL action features the Florida Panthers visiting the Ottawa Senators.

The Florida Panthers have followed a five game winning streak with back to back defeats after a 4-2 loss at the NY Rangers on Saturday. Mike Hoffman and Aaron Ekblad scored first period goals for the Panthers with Roberto Luongo giving up all four goals on 24 shots.

The Rangers scoring came off the sticks of Filip Chytil, Brendan Smith, Vladislav Namesnikov and Chris Kreider. Kreider also posted two assists and Henrik Lundqvist recorded 39 saves for New York.

The Ottawa Senators have been playing well with wins in three of four after outscoring visiting Pittsburgh 6-4 on Saturday. Kris Letang, Zach Aston-Reese, Matt Cullen and Patric Hornqvist all lit the lamp for the Penguins. Phil Kessel and Evgeni Malkin each posted two assists for Pittsburgh with Casey DeSmith giving up three goals on 15 shots before Matt Murray stopped 7-10 shots in relief.

Matt Duchene and Mark Stone topped the Ottawa offensive explosion with a pair of markers with Brady Tkachuk and Cody Ceci also reaching the scoring column. Ryan Dzingel added two assists to lift Ottawa and Craig Anderson’s 31 saves to the win.

Panthers are 5-1 in their last 6 Monday games and Panthers are 1-4 in their last 5 vs. a team with a losing record and over is 17-5-1 in Panthers last 23 when their opponent scores 5 goals or more in their previous game. Over is 6-1-2 in Senators last 9 vs. a team with a losing record and over is 22-5-1 in Senators last 28 when their opponent scores 2 goals or less in their previous game and Senators are 4-1 in their last 5 vs. Eastern Conference. Under is 4-1-1 in the last 6 meetings in Ottawa and Panthers are 5-11 in the last 16 meetings in Ottawa.

I don’t see the need to pay juice on either team so the Senators as home dogs is value…