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Official Ottawa Senators Thread

Ottawa Senators (28-22-6) at Tampa Bay Lightning (24-25-6)

SPECIAL TEAMS

OTT: PP 17.4% No. 17; PK 81.4% No. 18
TB: PP 13.5 No. 28; PK 80.6 .% No. 25

PAST FIVE GAMES

Ottawa

    EDM 4, OTT 3 (OT)
    OTT 4, NSH 3
    STL 3, OTT 1
    TOR 5, OTT 0
    NYI 2, OTT 1 (OT)

Tampa

    PIT 4, TB 2
    TB 2, BUF 1
    NYR 4, TB 3 (OT)
    LAK 3, TB 1
    TB 6, FLA 3

SENATORS LINES

    Milan Michalek-Jason Spezza-Bobby Butler
    Colin Greening-Kyle Turris-Daniel Alfredsson
    Kaspars Daugavins-Zack Smith-Erik Condra
    Nick Foligno-Jim O?Brien-Chris Neil

Defence

    Filip Kuba-Erik Karlsson
    Chris Phillips-Sergei Gonchar
    Jared Cowen-Brian Lee

Goalies

    Craig Anderson
    Alex Auld

LIGHTNING LINES

    Steve Downie-Steven Stamkos-Teddy Purcell
    Ryan Shannon-Vinny Lecavalier-Marty St. Louis
    Nate Thompson-Dominic Moore-Tom Pyatt
    Brett Connolly-Adam Hall-JT Wyman

Defence

    Pavel Kubina-Eric Brewer
    Victor Hedman-Brett Clark
    Bruno Gervais-Brendan Mikkelson

Goalies

    Dwayne Roloson
    Mathieu Garon
 
Oh crap, Ferret, please tell me Karlsson's not hurt.  Ferret?  Karlsson's not hurt is he Ferret?  Ferret, Karlsson can't be hurt.  Tell me everything will be okay, Ferret.  FERRET?!
 
Sucker Punch said:
Oh crap, Ferret, please tell me Karlsson's not hurt.  Ferret?  Karlsson's not hurt is he Ferret?  Ferret, Karlsson can't be hurt.  Tell me everything will be okay, Ferret.  FERRET?!
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He's fine! Big win
 
Thanks for ruining my Hockey Pools ticket Ottawa!  >:(

As retaliation I am going to burn my Norm McIver rookie card...
 
Ottawa Senators (28-22-8) at Florida Panthers (27-17-11)

Special Teams

    OTT: PP 17.4% No. 17; PK 81.4% No. 18
    FLA: PP 19.1 No. 10; PK 80.9 .% No. 23

Last 5

Ottawa

    OTT vs. TB
    EDM 4, OTT 3 (OT)
    OTT 4, NSH 3
    STL 3, OTT 1
    TOR 5, OTT 0

Florida

    FLA 4, NYI 1
    FLA 3, NJ 1
    FLA 3, LA 1
    WSH 4, FLA 0
    TB 6, FLA 3

Ottawa

Lines

    Milan Michalek-Jason Spezza-Bobby Butler
    Colin Greening-Kyle Turris-Daniel Alfredsson
    Kaspars Daugavins-Zack Smith-Erik Condra
    Nick Foligno-Jim O?Brien-Chris Neil

Defence

    Filip Kuba-Erik Karlsson
    Chris Phillips-Sergei Gonchar
    Jared Cowen-Brian Lee

Goalies

    Craig Anderson
    Alex Auld

Florida

Lines

    Tomas Fleischmann-Stephen Weiss-Kris Versteeg
    Sean Bergenheim-Marcel Goc-Mikael Samuelsson
    Shawn Matthias-Mike Santorelli-Tomas Kopecky
    Jack Skille-John Madden-Matt Bradley

Defence

    Erik Gudbranson-Brian Campbell
    Tyson Strachan-Colby Robak
    Keaton Ellerby-Mike Weaver

Goalies

    Jose Theodore
    Scott Clemmensen
 
We're off till Monday after this one - big opportunity to build a bit of a buffer while other teams catch up on games played.
 
Gonchar makes case to stay with Sens
As trade rumours heat up, veteran points to club's progress with this group

UNIONDALE, N.Y. ? Sergei Gonchar is a veteran, he can ignore the noise.

With the NHL trade deadline next Monday at 3 p.m. and speculation starting to ramp up, Gonchar told the Sun he hasn?t been approached by anybody in the Ottawa organization about waiving his no-movement clause.

Making $5.5 million in the second season of a three-year, $16.5-million deal, the 37-year-old Gonchar has no desire to play anywhere else.

?I?ve been in the league for a long time. It?s been mentioned more than once,? he said with a smile before the club?s flight here Sunday.

?If you look at the way we played last year, to the way we?re playing this year, we?ve made a huge step forward. We?re making progress pretty much every game and I like the direction that we?re going. This team is going the right way.?

Senators GM Bryan Murray will spend time fielding calls and there?s a lot of teams looking for blue-line help.

The market is set: A second-round pick and a mid-round pick (fourth or fifth) for a pending unrestricted free-agent defenceman.

The Hawks, Wings and Bruins are all looking to add depth on the back end heading into the playoffs. So are the Blues, but they don?t have any money to spend.

Since Gonchar has one year left on his deal, the Senators would probably demand a younger, cheaper defenceman in return.

Erik Karlsson, who?s set to become a restricted free agent this summer, will be in the $5.5-million range on his new contract ? or the same as Gonchar is making.

The Senators have major concerns about changing their chemistry by making moves.

Not only was Gonchar brought in to help the club win, he?s here because the Senators want him to mentor Karlsson.

?We have good chemistry and it seems like all the guys are getting along very well,? said Gonchar. ?It?s not my decision, but I would say, ?Yes? (he?d like to stay).?

Gonchar, who has two goals and 27 assists in 53 games this season, hasn?t scored since Nov. 12 ? a 36-game drought going into Monday?s holiday matinee against the New York Islanders.

?(But) he?s been a pretty consistent player,? said coach Paul MacLean. ?We?d like to see him have more than (two) goals, but I?ve thought he really does a good job in our end of settling us down and making good exits.

?Our power play, when it?s good, it?s because he?s good. For the most part, he?s been consistent. He?s provided leadership and veteran play in the back end, which is important for the success that we?ve had.?

Gonchar said the way the Senators have played this season reminds him of the Washington Capitals club he played with in 1997. Expectations were low heading into the season, yet they went all the way to the Stanley Cup final.

?Nobody really counted on us to do anything. We lost to Detroit (in the final) but we did well,? said Gonchar. ?When we into this season, nobody really counted on us. They didn?t think we were going to make the playoffs.

?We were picked No. 15 in the league. Everybody felt this was going to be one of those years and next year would be the year we?d play better. We?ve surprised everybody and we?ve got a real good chance to make the playoffs.?

Gonchar would like to be part of it.
 
Ottawa Senators (30-22-8) at N.Y. Islanders (25-25-8)

SPECIAL TEAMS

OTT: PP No. 12, 17.8%; PK No. 19, 81.6%
NYI: PP No. 6, 19.5%; PK No. 9, 83.8%


ISLES LINES

    Matt Moulson-John Tavares-P.A. Parenteau
    Michael Grabner-Frans Nielsen-Kyle Okposo
    Matt Martin-Josh Bailey-Brian Rolston
    Jay Pandolfo-Marty Reasoner-Nino Niederreiter

Defence

    Andrew MacDonald-Milan Jurcina
    Mark Streit-Ty Wishart
    Mark Eaton-Aaron Ness

Goalies

    Evgeni Nabokov
    Al Montoya

SENATORS LINES

    Milan Michalek-Jason Spezza-Bobby Butler
    Colin Greening-Kyle Turris-Daniel Alfredsson
    Kaspars Daugavins-Zack Smith-Erik Condra
    Nick Foligno-Jim O?Brien-Chris Neil

Defence

    Filip Kuba-Erik Karlsson
    Chris Phillips-Sergei Gonchar
    Jared Cowen-Brian Lee

Goalies

    Craig Anderson
    Alex Auld
 
Sucker Punch said:
4 points and a +4 this afternoon for the best blueliner in hockey. No big deal.
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?And I think over time, he?ll go down in history as one of the great defencemen of all time. He is that good.?
-Melynk

I hope he handles Karlsson's contract negotiations.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Sucker Punch said:
4 points and a +4 this afternoon for the best blueliner in hockey. No big deal.
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?And I think over time, he?ll go down in history as one of the great defencemen of all time. He is that good.?
-Melynk

I hope he handles Karlsson's contract negotiations.
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I think that kid's basically got a blank cheque.  I just hope they keep it under $7 million per and for less than a decade.
 
I know it doesn't really mean anything and these teams are poison this time of the year but 11 out of our final 21 games are against teams below us in the standings. Also, looking at the standings I'm thinking our magic number is about 12 or 13 wins for the big p. Get on the bus..
 
Washington Capitals (29-25-5) at Ottawa Senators (31-22-8)

SPECIAL TEAMS

OTT: PP 18.4% No. 11; PK 81.8% No. 17
WSH: PP 17.6 No. 13; PK 80.8 .% No. 23

SENS LINES

    Milan Michalek-Jason Spezza-Bobby Butler
    Colin Greening-Kyle Turris-Daniel Alfredsson
    Kaspars Daugavins-Zack Smith-Erik Condra
    Nick Foligno-Jim O?Brien-Chris Neil

DEFENCE

    Filip Kuba-Erik Karlsson
    Chris Phillips-Sergei Gonchar
    Jared Cowen-Brian Lee

GOALIES

    Craig Anderson
    Alex Auld

CAPITALS LINES

    Alex Ovechkin-Marcus Johansson-Troy Brouwer
    Jason Chimera-Mathieu Perreault-Alex Semin
    Matt Hendricks-Brooks Laich-Mike Knuble
    Jay Beagle-Jeff Halpern-Joel Ward

DEFENCE

    Karl Alzner-John Carlson
    Roman Hamrlik-Dennis Wideman
    Jeff Schultz-Mike Green

GOALIES

    Tomas Vokoun
    Michal Neuvirth
 
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