The unexpected leaders in the Central Division, the Nashville Predators are rolling following one of their best performances in franchise history as they travel to the nations capital to battle the sputtering Ottawa Senators Thursday night. Viewers in the Senators region can watch all the action starting at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt on TSN5 or listen on TSN Radio 1200 Ottawa starting at 5:30pm et/2:30pm pt. The Senators have dropped four of five (1-2-2) after giving up three third-period tallies in Saturdays 4-2 defeat at Calgary to conclude a 1-1-1 trip through Western Canada. Robin Lehner will get the start for Ottawa between the pipes. We had a chance to steal two points and make it a heck of a road trip, but instead we come back .500, said right wing Bobby Ryan, who scored his fourth goal of the season. I dont think that will sit very well with anybody. The power play shouldnt, either. Ottawa has failed to convert on its last 14 chances on the man advantage over the past four games, including six against the Flames. (The power play) has been a positive for us all season but (Saturday) we got away from it, Ryan said. The things that we see a lot of nights, we didnt get pucks to the net very well, and the pucks we did come up with, we were staying on the wall too long and letting them get back into situations where they could set up. Four of Clarke MacArthurs team-high eight goals have come on the power play, but his even-strength tally Saturday ended a four-game drought. He has no goals in seven career meetings with Nashville. The Predators are looking to win for the sixth time in seven games. Nashville (12-4-2) missed the playoffs in each of the past two years, and fired Barry Trotz - its only coach in team history. Peter Laviolette, though, has gotten the Predators to quickly regroup as their 26 points are only one behind Pittsburgh and Anaheim for the most in the NHL. They hadnt scored more than four goals in a game this season until Tuesday, when 15 players registered a point in a 9-2 romp at Toronto. It was the third time in team history Nashville scored nine times, with the previous effort coming against Calgary on March 18, 2006. We were good offensively, everyone was making plays, said left wing Taylor Beck, who had career highs of two goals and three points versus the Maple Leafs. Those games are fun. You know theyre not all gonna be like that, but theyre fun to play, certainly for the winning team. Filip Forsberg, who had two points Tuesday, seems to be having a great time lately. The right wing has eight goals and seven assists in nine games and leads the team with nine goals and 13 assists overall. He had two third-period assists as Nashville rallied for a 3-2 home win over the Senators (8-5-4) in its season opener Oct. 9. The Predators, 6-3-1 on the road, have won three of four visits to Ottawa, and Pekka Rinne had 34 saves in the most recent one March 10. However, he was beaten three times in the third period before Seth Jones scored with 1:11 left in overtime of a 4-3 victory. Rinne only needed 18 stops against the Senators on opening night, and he made 29 saves Tuesday to get his 12th win, which ties Vancouvers Ryan Miller for the league lead. His 1.92 goals-against average ranks fourth in the NHL, but he owns a 3.92 mark while winning two of three games at Ottawa. Ottawa Senators Projected Lines Forwards MacArthur-Turris-Chiasson Greening-Legwand-Ryan Michalek-Smith-Neil Hoffman-Zibanejad-Stone Defence Phillips-Karlsson Cowens-Ceci Boroweicki-Gryba Vapormax Flyknit Herre Norge . 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As TSN reported Thursday, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport is under intense pressure from the federal government to focus drug testing on athletes who compete in international events representing Canada. Since funding for the tests has been frozen and the cost of testing can eclipse $1,000 per test, university athletes in a number of sports are being tested less often. LOS ANGELES -- The ovations started after the Los Angeles Kings third goal in 16 minutes to open Game 4 of the Western Conference final, and the home crowd eventually serenaded its team off the ice for intermission. The low-scoring Kings have become the Stanley Cup playoffs highest-scoring team. This defensive powerhouse is shutting down the Chicago Blackhawks big stars while pushing the defending champions to the verge of elimination. Yep, the Kings deserved a hand -- even if they insist they still havent anything thats really worth cheering. Jake Muzzin, Marian Gaborik and captain Dustin Brown scored in a dominant first period, and Los Angeles beat Chicago 5-2 Monday night to take a 3-1 series lead. Muzzin and Drew Doughty each had a goal and an assist, and Jonathan Quick made 22 saves as the Kings moved to the brink of their second trip to the Stanley Cup Final in three seasons with their third straight win over the defending champion Blackhawks. Gaborik, who joined the Kings on March 5 and immediately catalyzed their offence, took a momentary break from the businesslike atmosphere of the Kings dressing room and just plain marveled what Los Angeles has accomplished this spring. "To come into every game with that confidence, to have that mojo that you can win every game, thats the difference," Gaborik said. "Its great to come to a team like this and be part of a winning culture." Tanner Pearson added an empty-net goal for the Kings, who have been to the NHL finals just twice in franchise history, winning their only title in 2012. One year after Los Angeles lost the conference finals in five games to Chicago, the Kings have their own chance to close it out in five. Game 5 is Wednesday in Chicago. "Were not looking ahead," Kings forward Justin Williams said. "Chicago, I believe theyve been down 3-1 before. Every team has been through experiences that have made them better. Stanley Cup championship teams like Chicago and us, weve been through a lot. Weve persevered through a lot, and theyre down 3-1, were trying to squash them, and theyre trying to get some life." Two days after the Kings gritted out a 4-3 victory over Chicago in Game 3, they won again at Staples Center by scoring three goals on their first six shots of Game 4, capping an incredible three-game offensive performance by the lowest-scoring NHL team to make the postt-season.dddddddddddd. After trailing 2-0 late in the second period of Game 2, Los Angeles scored 13 goals in less than 100 minutes, capped by a dominant first period in Game 4. Muzzin scored on a power play. Gaborik added his 10th goal of the post-season off Duncan Keiths turnover. Brown banged a puck into an open net for another power-play goal, his first score since Game 7 of the first round against San Jose. Cue the standing ovations. Brandon Saad and Bryan Bickell scored and Corey Crawford stopped 16 shots for the Blackhawks, who didnt get rolling until they trailed 4-0 late in the second period. "I dont think we played that poorly," Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. "We made some mistakes, and their confidence snowballed on us. Next thing you know, it doesnt matter how hard you work or how many shifts you spend in their zone. If the bounces arent going your way, its tough to get back in a game like this. Were going to find a way to get those bounces again and get things rolling our way. Well work ourselves out of it." The Blackhawks escaped a 3-1 hole in the second round against Detroit last season, but thats the only time in franchise history Chicago has rallied from that deficit -- and the Kings are an entirely different post-season challenge. "Its not a good position to be in," said Patrick Kane, who assisted on Bickells goal for his first point in the series. "Coming into this series, wed be lying if we thought wed be in this position, but it happens. Got no one to blame but ourselves, so were the only ones that can get ourselves out of it." After their dominant opening period, the Kings kept pressing in the second, and Doughty put a long shot through traffic midway through the period. Doughty, the Kings leader in ice time, has goals in back-to-back games after scoring just once in the first 16 playoff games. Chicago finally beat Quick when Saad scored on a backhand. The Kings sat back on defence to start the third period, and Bickell got just his second goal in eight games when he jumped on a loose puck in the slot with 10:31 to play. NOTES: Chicagos power play went 0 for 3, dropping to 1 for 24 on the road in the post-season. ... The Blackhawks scratched F Brandon Bollig in favour of Peter Regin, who sat out Game 3 after Andrew Shaws return. ... Game 6 would be Friday at Staples Center. ' ' '