Through six games of the 2024-25 season, the Ottawa Senators have a 4-2-0 record. Ottawa has been one of the most surprising teams early into the season.
The Senators began their three-game West Coast road trip in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night. In the Senators' first ever game in Salt Lake City, they defeated the Utah Hockey Club 4-0 behind scoring four goals in the first period alone.
Tomorrow night is the second of three games on the road trip at T-Mobile Arena against the Vegas Golden Knights. For Senators forward Michael Amadio, it will be an emotional game, but it also offers as a game that could start seeing Amadio heat up at last.
Amadio to be full of emotion with returning to Vegas
In tomorrow night's game, Amadio will be returning to Vegas to take on his former team. Amadio spent the past three seasons wearing a Golden Knights jersey, and it's his first game back in Vegas since signing with Ottawa this past free agency.
Amadio was a key role player on the Golden Knights' 2023 Stanley Cup championship team, and had a good career in Vegas. In 193 career games as a Golden Knight, Amadio recorded 72 points. In the 2023 playoffs, Amadio recorded 10 points with a +8 rating in 16 games.
Vegas didn't re-sign Amadio in this past free agency and it gave Ottawa an opportunity to sign a quality role player with championship pedigree. Amadio and Ottawa agreed on a three-year contract at $2.6 million per year until 2027.
Unfortunately for Amadio, his Senators tenure hasn't gone as planned. Amadio is pointless with a -3 rating through six games. Amadio had a great chance to start heating up on Oct. 14 against the first team he played for, the Los Angeles Kings, but went pointless.
Now with being full of emotion with coming back to Vegas, tomorrow offers another chance for Amadio to not only start producing offense, but also prove Vegas wrong that they should've re-signed him. With the Senators already having offensive production from their top players, they need their role players to start getting hot. Puck drop for the Senators game tomorrow against the Golden Knights is at 6 p.m. ET.