The Senators should be returning home with their tails between their legs, but they can save at least some face with a victory over the conference-leading Boston Bruins on Thursday.

It will be the eighth and final game of what has been a disastrous stretch while the world junior hockey championships have inhabited Scotiabank Place. The Senators have won just one of the first seven as their record has dropped to 13-19-6, and through Tuesday they were 13 points out of the eighth and final playoff spot.

A win over the Bruins would rank as a tremendous upset. After Tuesday's loss, Ottawa was 30 points back of Boston. While the Senators dropped to 4-13-3 on the road, the Bruins are 14-3-1 at home.

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Jarkko Ruutu added another chapter to the bitter rivalry between the Ottawa Senators and the Buffalo Sabres. He bit the gloved thumb of Sabres enforcer Andrew Peters during a first-period altercation Tuesday night, overshadowing Buffalo's 4-2 win. "It's a pretty goofy thing that happened," Peters said.