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Leevi Merilainen will start Tuesday vs. Carolina.

Merilainen was 18-13-7 with a .918 SV% and 2.02 GAA with Karpat (Liiga) this season and has earned his first NHL callup and start Tuesday. The 20-year-old was the Senators' 2020 third-round pick (71 overall) and will be making his NHL debut vs. Carolina, who has won their last two games and are third in the NHL in shots per game (34.9).

Leevi Merilainen
Tkachuk left the morning skate early and could be one of the Senators game-time decisions on Tuesday.

The Senators announced that they have two or three game-time decisions on Tuesday but did not disclose who those players were. Tkachuk appeared to be banged up in their last game and left the morning skate early, so Tkachuk may be one of the players in question this evening.

Brady Tkachuk
Merilainen is in the starter's crease at the Senators morning skate.

Merilainen was 18-13-7 with a .918 SV% and 2.02 GAA with Karpat (Liiga) this season and has earned his first NHL callup and start Tuesday. The 20-year-old was the Senators' 2020 third-round pick (71 overall) and will be making his NHL debut vs. Carolina, who has won their last two games and are third in the NHL in shots per game (34.9).

Leevi Merilainen
Ullmark will start Thursday vs. the Blue Jackets.

Ullmark stopped 21 of 22 shots (.955 SV%) but still snapped a three-game winning streak as he was defeated by the Nashville Predators in his previous start. The 29-year-old has all but locked up the Vezina Trophy this season as he leads all major goaltending categories with his 36-6-1 record, 1.90 GAA and .937 SV%. He will face the Columbus Blue Jackets, who have lost five of their last seven games after a 6-2 loss to the New York Rangers last game.

Linus Ullmark
Thomas Chabot is out week-to-week with an upper-body injury.

Chabot left the Senators' previous game after 18:01 TOI due to an upper-body injury and will now be forced to miss "at least two weeks" as he recovers. The 26-year-old has 11 goals, 30 assists, 165 SOG, 52 PIMs and a -11 plus/minus through 68 games prior to his injury this season.

Thomas Chabot
Ullmark will start Tuesday vs. the Predators.

Ullmark stopped 26 of 27 shots (.963 SV%) for his third-straight win as he picked up the victory over Tampa Bay in his previous start. The 29-year-old has seemingly locked up the Vezina Trophy because he leads all major goaltending categories with his 36-5-1 record, 1.92 GAA and .937 SV%. He will take on the Nashville Predators, who chose a bad time to lose five of their last seven games and are 28th in the NHL in goals per game (2.76).

Linus Ullmark