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  • Senators slide into Buffalo

    The Ottawa Senators slide into Buffalo with a firm 5 point hold on the #4 lottery draft position. Those are decent odds at landing Tavares or Hedman, and it's early yet.... #1 is within reach! Considering that the 2009 WJHC probably just netted Melnyk what he would from a first round playoff exit from his Ottawa Senators, I wonder how much he really cares if we make the playoffs anyway? In other news, Mike Fisher is clearly ok with Tony Romo's sloppy seconds . It's nice to see that Mike...

  • Sens blanked by Blackhawks

    A perfect example of why you don't want to load up your top 3 players on one line. This would be a good preview of the playoffs should we ever climb into the mix. Shutdown our top line, and it's 2 points in the bank for the opponent. Gerber lets in one fluky goal and Ottawa squanders countless powerplays for a 2-0 shutout loss to the surging Blackhawks. Fisher had 1/3 of our team's shots on net and Huet gets his first shutout as a Blackhawk. The only good thing about that is I have him...

  • Battle of Ontario - Game 2: Leafs 1 @ Sens 2 (SO)

    Finally a great game in the Battle of Ontario. It was looking like Toskala was going to win the game by himself. The game stats will show that the game was pretty even, but Toskala turned away several great scoring chances by the Ottawa Senators. 50+ hits in the game... and mostly clean. The Senators remain unbeaten in black. I'm glad I'm not Hartsburg as I suggested it might not be wise to inject Fisher too quickly against a team that was clearly planning to hit everything in sight. But...

  • Leafs goon it up for Battle of Ontario

    Colby Armstrong strikes again... his latest victim is Jason Blake who took a high hit from Armstrong and suffered a concussion. Coach Ron Wilson called up tough guy Andre Deveaux from the Marlies to fill Blake's void in the lineup. I don't know much about Deveaux other than he has 57 pims in 13 games and is coming back from serving a 4 game suspension for an attack on Nolan Baumgartner. I call him a goon, but he does have 6 goals so he serves more than one purpose. If I'm Craig Hartsburg...

  • Fish busts slump; Sens dump Caps in OT

    The six million dollar man finally broke his slump and figured in on both Ottawa goals to help the Senators dump Ovechkin & Company in OT. Fisher started the scoring for Ottawa when he hit Heatley coming out of the box for a breakaway goal. But Fleischmann evened things up just over 2 minutes later with a nifty backhand when Chris Neil failed to clear the zone and Washington "capitalized" on the chance (that's my best impression of Ron MacLean). Neil had another brain fart when...

  • Game 7: Ducks 4 @ Senators 3

    I started writing this post at the beginning of the third period and I had to restart a couple of times. Down 4-0, I was getting ready to to talk about how Anaheim's goals were the type that just came from lazy defensive play in front of our net. You know... the unassisted kind that happen when the guy covering you doesn't drive you to the ice when he has the chance. Then the Ottawa Senators finally woke up and took advantage of some powerplay time, scoring a pair of goals 37 seconds apart...

  • Spezza bumped to second line

    I don't understand what the big deal is about this move, but the press is all over it in Ottawa. Every other time the Pizza line gets broken up, it always seems to be Alfie dropping to the second line to help produce some secondary scoring. This time it's Spezza dropping down... big deal. Nice to see Hartsburg has the cohones to split up Heatley and Spezza. But it's not like Jason will see much less ice time. I'm sure he'll still get all kinds of PP time and it wouldn't be...