Here’s today’s news roundup:
-Impressive rookie Mark Stone has been signed to his ELC (link); no numbers have been released yet.
-Bruce Garrioch tweeted (link) that Craig Anderson, Mark Borowiecki, Stephane Da Costa, Nick Foligno and Mark Parrish won’t play tonight. Ottawa’s line combinations and defence combinations (link):
Michalek-Zibanejad-Stone
Greening-Smith-Neil
Filatov-Regin-Butler
Hoffman-Konopka-Lessard
Cowen-Rundblad
Kuba-Karlsson
Wiercioch-Conboy
Auld will play the first half, Lehner the second
-Toronto’s lineup has also been posted (link), but only some of the lines (the goaltenders will split duties):
Grabovski-Kulemin-MacArthur
Kadri-Bozak-Armstrong
Hill-Colborne-Fattin
Crabb-Dupuis-Orr/Rosehill
Phaneuf-Aulie
–The Canadian Press previewed the Senators (link), the gist of which is: “The Senators have plenty of room for improvement after finishing…26th overall. With former Detroit Red Wings assistant coach Paul MacLean taking over from Clouston, the Senators decided a rebuild was the way to go. The right way [to play], says the 53-year-old MacLean, will be to make sure the Senators’ effort levels are consistent every night, something that Clouston wasn’t able to get out of his players. The Senators are confident they are on the right track with the mix of youth and experience, skill and toughness they’ve assembled. After Anderson, Spezza, who missed 20 games with a back injury, was the Senators’ best player down the stretch. He stands to fare better if he and captain Daniel Alfredsson can stay healthy. Binghamton call-ups Erik Condra and Colin Greening earned themselves NHL contracts in the off season with their play. Defenceman Erik Karlsson was arguably the only member of the Senators to emerge from the year with his reputation enhanced after breaking out offensively with 13 goals and 45 points.
“In the off-season, the Senators added gritty centre Zenon Konopka, a faceoff specialist with a penchant for dropping the gloves, and backup goalie Alex Auld through free agency and embarked on a reclamation project in trading for former Columbus first-round pick Nikita Filatov at the NHL draft, who has yet to fulfil his potential. The Senators’ first pick, No. 6 overall, was Swedish forward Mika Zibanejad and, by all accounts, he stood out last week at rookie camp, as did fellow centre Stephane Da Costa, who joined Ottawa late last season as a free-agent signing out of Merrimack College. The Senators also have high hopes for Swedish defenceman David Rundblad, who was the Swedish Elite League’s top defenceman last season, and blue-liner Jared Cowen, who played last year with the Western Hockey League’s Spokane Chiefs before joining Binghamton for the playoffs. MacLean confirmed those players are all in the mix for the NHL roster. Regin, Da Costa and Zibanejad will all get a look as the Senators try to find a second-line centre. Another dilemma for MacLean in training camp will be trying to find room for so many defencemen. Ottawa has six on one-way contracts in addition to those trying to crack the team like Rundblad and Cowen.”
-ESPN’s fantasy projections are up (link). Here’s their Ottawa list:
Jason Spezza 75-27-42-69
Daniel Alfredsson 77-23-40-63
Nikita Filatov 78-25-30-58
Bobby Butler 76-24-34-58
Sergei Gonchar 74-12-34-46
Peter Regin 82-15-30-45
Erik Karlsson 79-13-31-44
Milan Michalek 68-20-17-37
Mika Zibanejad 79-17-14-31
Filip Kuba 68-3-23-26
Jared Cowen 59-7-15-22
Matt Carkner 72-2-9-11
Zenon Konopka 69-2-5-7
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