A busy day in Sens news:

-The Sens cut their training roster down by six yesterday, releasing ATO Matej Machovsky and sending most of the junior players back to their teams (Stefan Noesen, Matt Puempel, Mark Stone, Jordan Fransoo, and Jakub Culek, link).

–David Rundblad described his experience in the exhibition game in his blog (link), expressing surprise at how much faster the game was compared to the rookie tournament while saying he was satisfied with his effort.

-Ottawa’s lineup for tonight (link), including a preview of what will likely be Binghamton’s first line:
Nikita Filatov-Mika Zibanejad-Bobby Butler
Shane Prince-Stephane Da Costa-Jim O’Brien
Nick Foligno-Peter Regin-Erik Condra
Kaspars Daugavins-Corey Locke-Mark Parrish
Jared Cowen-Sergei Gonchar
Chris Phillips-Brian Lee
Mark Borowiecki-David Rundblad
Craig Anderson/Alex Auld

-Boston’s lineup for tonight has been announced (it’s a youthful group, link):
Forwards: Jamie Arniel, Patrice Bergeron, Jordan Caron, Chris Clark, Chris Kelly, Jared Knight, Lane MacDermid, Benoit Pouliot, Max Sauve, Tyler Seguin, Ryan Spooner, Jamie Tardif, Shawn Thornton
Defensemen: Matt Bartkowski, Colby Cohen, Andrew Ference, Dougie Hamilton, Steven Kampfer, Adam McQuaid, David Warsofsky.
Goaltenders: Anton Khudobin, Tuukka Rask.

-Here’s what Bryan Murray told Binghamton beat writer Joy Lindsay about trying to replace Lee Sweatt (link): “We kind of got to a budget level. We’re very disappointed Sweatt retired. I’m not sure what the real reason was, other than maybe just a business opportunity, but we will keep looking. And very definitely, if we don’t get them a top young defenseman to go down there out of our camp — maybe somebody that we were planning on keeping here — then we have to address that issue. I know that Tim is on a daily basis bugging me about it, and so we’ll try to keep a very close eye on that.”  Reading between the lines it sounds like they will consider him replaced internally depending on who gets sent down after training camp (and, therefore, there’s a scenario whereby whoever gets sent down would not replace Sweatt).  Given that what they lost was an offensive player I believe Rundblad is whom Murray is referring too.

–The Ottawa Sun‘s Bruce Garrioch talked to Brian Lee about the situation on the blueline (link), and the former first-rounder remains philosophical, “We have lots of good players. I’m just going to do what I do well and things will take care of themselves.”

-Grey Wyshynski (Puck Daddy) previews the Ottawa Senators (link).  It’s entertainingly written and he includes Francis Lessard in the roster discussion.  His final comment, “The Senators are being picked by some to finish last in the National Hockey League, as they’re in the midst of a serious rebuild. MacLean brings considerable experience but nothing in the way of NHL head-coaching experience. There are still a few shining lights on the roster. But overall, this is a team building for tomorrow … one that will be well-represented in the lottery, but far from the postseason.”  Wyshynski joins the chorus that see’s the Sens at the bottom of the NHL heap.

-Chris Nicholls of City News posted a list of the top goaltenders in the NHL (link), putting Craig Anderson at #18.  Here’s his top-30:
1. Henrik Lundqvist
2. Tim Thomas
3. Roberto Luongo
4. Ilya Bryzgalov
5. Pekka Rinne
6. Marc-Andre Fleury
7. Ryan Miller
8. Carey Price
9. Jonathan Quick
10. Martin Brodeur
11. Antti Niemi
12. Tomas Vokoun
13. Cam Ward
14. Jonas Hiller,
15. Jaroslav Halak
16. Corey Crawford
17. Jimmy Howard
18. Craig Anderson
19. Miikka Kiprusoff
20. Kari Lehtonen
21. Dwayne Roloson
22. Niklas Backstrom
23. James Reimer
24. Ondrej Pavelec
26. Tuukka Rask
25. Semyon Varlamov
27. Michal Neuvirth
28. Cory Schneider
29. Steve Mason
30. Mike Smith

-Elmira (ECHL) signed four more players (link): John Mori (CHL 43-9-15-24), Cam Fergus (CIS 28-16-16-32), Vinny Geonnetti (AAHL 24-2-11-13), and Clay Goodall (CCAA 27-3-8-11).

September 21, 2011
Categories: Binghamton Senators, Ottawa Senators . . Author: Eye on the Sens

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