There’s plenty of Sens news to look at today:
–The Ottawa Citizen‘s James Gordon talked to Bryan Murray (link) who had some interesting things to say. Murray said he’d been targeting Craig Anderson back when he was playing for the Florida Panthers (08-09), but decided to trade for Pascal Leclaire instead; Gordon also writes “The team is interested to see where Peter Regin is now after a terribly disappointing year. Regin got hurt, but he also languished under coach Cory Clouston. Murray said Paul MacLean and his staff bring a “newness” and an ability to communicate, which sometimes results in “the performance of a lifetime” from some players in training camp.” I’m not sure if Gordon’s comments are via Murray or his own, but Clouston’s communication problems are well-established.
–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan also writes about Regin (link) about whom Bryan Murray said “I think it [the coaching change] helps Peter, because Peter felt he wasn’t getting everything he could get last year.” Regin himself added, “I think I can help the team win some games and really be a guy that puts up points more often than I did. And my two-way game, working in my own end, too, and be responsible. The whole package. I never got into that last year and that’s what I want to find this year.” I agree that Clouston did not give Regin much rope last season, so it will be interesting to see how he performs with a clean slate under MacLean.
-Elliotte Friedman was on The Fan 590 yesterday and had some interesting comments about the Senators and Ottawa fans: “They’re [the team] a long way away. Ottawa’s fans…they jump off the bandwagon pretty quick.” The sentiment seems common outside the region. The commentators (Friedman along with Stephen Brunt and John Shannon) also believed the Sens organisational depth was below Edmonton’s (the other rebuilding Canadian team) and had a long way to go.
-Senators training camp has been divided into three rosters (link), here are the groupings:
| Boschman 32 Machovsky 41 Anderson 17 Kuba 38 Conboy 39 Carkner 46 Wiercioch 63 Godfrey 65 Karlsson 6 Kramer 14 Greening 15 Smith 16 Butler 19 Spezza 21 Filatov 37 Locke 42 O’Brien 50 Culek 56 Downing 57 Grant 60 Stone |
Kyte 29 McKenna 35 Auld 2 Cowen 51 Raymond 55 Gonchar 62 Gryba 64 Schira 9 Michalek 10 Prince 11 Alfredsson 24 Da Costa 27 Parrish 44 Pageau 48 Cannone 49 Lessard 53 Hamilton 54 Cowick 58 Gratchev 68 Hoffman 93 Zibanejad |
Marsh 30 Stewart 40 Lehner 4 Phillips 5 Lee 7 Rundblad 52 Fransoo 74 Borowiecki 3 Puempel 13 Regin 17 Foligno 18 Winchester 20 Petersson 22 Condra 23 Daugavins 25 Neil 28 Konopka 36 Noesen 59 Dziurzynski 67 Caporusso |
-Corey Pronman of Hockey Prospectus lists the top-100 NHL Prospects (link). 7 Sens made the main list (goalies were listed separately, so 8 including them):
17. David Rundblad
21. Mika Zibanejad
40. Nikita Filatov
46. Stephane Da Costa
76. Jared Cowen
85. Jakob Silfverberg
90. Patrick Wiercioch
4. Robin Lehner
-John Henkelman of Hockey Futures has updated the Senators prospect rankings. Here are his top-20 (change from the previous ranking in brackets):
1. David Rundblad
2. Jared Cowen
3. Mika Zibanejad
4. Robin Lehner (3)
5. Jakob Silfverberg (4)
6. Matt Puempel
7. Nikita Filatov
8. Bobby Butler (7)
9. Patrick Wiercioch (5)
10. Colin Greening (14)
11. Erik Condra (9)
12. Stefan Noesen
13. Stephane Da Costa
14. Jim O’Brien (8)
15. Andre Petersson (13)
16. Mark Stone (19)
17. Mark Borowiecki (NR)
18. Eric Gryba (12)
19. Louie Caporusso (6)
20. Shane Prince
-Binghamton signed Ottawa training camp invites Maxim Gratchev (KHL 13-0-0-0) and Brian Stewart (4-5-0 3.05 .891) to AHL contracts (link).
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