–Daniel Alfredsson is expected to play tonight, while Chris Neil is out with a sprained ankle suffered in the Ranger game
–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan writes excitedly about Stephane Da Costa (link), but the only worthwhile comment in the piece is this: “In the meantime, the Senators will spend this season running cold and hot, like they’ve done with a six-game winning streak and a four-game slump in their past 10. So will individuals.” If Brennan actually wrote all his articles with this in mind he’d come across as less reactive and hysterical.
–The Ottawa Citizen‘s Wayne Scanlan writes about the team’s upcoming road trip (link) and he includes an interesting quote from Chris Phillips, “It’s what our style is right now, to not be fancy. To get pucks in deep and grind teams down low. And be frustrating to play against. That fits in well to a road style game and hopefully is to our advantage.” This sounds like a dump and chase style, but my impression was the team wanted to play a puck-possession game. It’s possible that’s what Phillips means, but I wonder about mixed messages.
-Joy Lindsay writes that Kurt Kleinendorst ran a hard practice yesterday after Binghamton’s loss to Hershey (link). Kleinendorst is concerned by how few shots on goal the team is generating, saying “I don’t know that we’re missing that many. But I don’t know that we’re generating many opportunities to get shots on net. When you spend a lot of time in your end, the shot clock goes up on one end and doesn’t really move much on the other. That concerns me, but I don’t really have a quick fix.”
-Joy Tweets that Robin Lehner will get the start tonight; Derek Grant will miss the game with a shoulder injury while Mark Parrish is a game time decision. With Bobby Raymond recalled either Josh Godfrey or Shaun Heshka will sit.
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