–The Ottawa Sun‘s Bruce Garrioch writes that Phoenix won’t trade Kyle Turris (link), believing Phoenix GM Don Maloney when he says as much.

–Georges Laraque is promoting his autobiography and talks about the use of performance enhancing drugs in the NHL (link).  A few quotes from the article, “Even more than steroids, some other drugs would really make fighting even more dangerous for the clean ones like me. Substances like ephedrine, for instance, totally desensitize the player who takes them. Before a game, as I would warm up on the ice, I would always look at the tough guy on the other side. If his arms were trembling, if his eyes were bulging, I knew for sure he wasn’t going to feel any of the punches I would give him. Totally anaesthetized, his face sweating despite the thick film of Vaseline he’d covered his face with, I knew the guy would be able to take a lot more hits than his fair share.” And “First, you just have to notice how some talented players will experience an efficiency loss as well as a weight loss every four years, those years being the ones where the Winter Olympics are held. In the following season they make a strong comeback; they manage a mysterious return to form.”

–The Silver Seven‘s Mark Parisi assesses player performances over the last week (link).  I agree with a lot of Parisi’s assessments, although I don’t think Colin Greening struggled, that Sergei Gonchar‘s lack of points the past three games indicates poor performance; I have no idea what Brian Lee did to impress in the Buffalo game, and Nikita Filatov doesn’t appear in his list.

–The Silver Seven‘s Dave Young talks about the limitations of Nick Foligno (link), something I pointed out in my profile of him this summer (link).  He’s a 30-35 point player who is strong along the boards, hangs on to the puck too much, and is weak defensively.

–SenShot‘s Jared Crozier wonders if the Sens are showcasing Brian Lee (link), which is a reasonable assumption, but I’ll take Paul MacLean at his word that he thought Rundblad needed a rest and Lee deserved to play

-Joy Lindsay Tweets that Nikita Filatov has been re-assigned to Binghamton (link), which is welcome relief for the B-Sens (who were 0-3-1 since his recall and only scored 7 goals)

–Hockey Futures‘ Tony Piscotta has an excellent preview of the SM-Liiga’s season this year (link).  Ottawa doesn’t have any prospects in Finland at the moment, but it still makes for an interesting read.

-St. Louis coach Davis Payne is the first coach to be fired after compiling a 6-7-0 start.  I have no idea why management thinks Ken Hitchcock is the answer.

November 7, 2011
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Ottawa lost it’s third game in a row tonight, but picked up a point nonetheless.  The Senators continued their winless streak when Brian Lee is in the lineup.  Despite taking the lead in the first period, Ottawa’s best period was the second.  They looked gassed in the third period and I think were fortunate to keep the point (they only managed three shots in the final frame).  For the box score go here link.  A look at the goals:
1. Michalek (Phillips, Anderson)
Walking straight through the defence Michalek puts the puck through Enroth in a great individual effort
2. Buffalo, Roy
Daugavins loses a puck battle along the boards and Roy makes a great tip in the slot
3. Buffalo, Leopold
Da Costa loses a puck battle behind the net and Lee can’t take away Leopold‘s stick for the tap-in
4. Condra (Smith)
Five-hole on a breakaway

Top performers:
Craig Anderson – despite giving up 3 goals on six shots in the shootout he let in no soft goals during the game and made some great saves
Erik Condra – scored a goal and was excellent defensively
Filip Kuba – had another strong all around game
Milan Michalek – scored a goal, lead the team in scoring chances, and played a 200-foot game

Players who struggled: I don’t think any player was particularly bad, although Brian Lee‘s primary contribution was (again) a defensive gaffe.  I thought Nikita Filatov‘s effort was good, but he looks tentative with the puck.  Perhaps barely playing night after night is affecting his confidence.

Binghamton  lost their fourth straight game, falling 2-1 in a shootout with Wilkes-Barre.  Robin Lehner took the loss, while Mike Hoffman scored the only goal.  I did not see the game so I’m reliant on reports about it.  For the box score go here link and for Joy Lindsay’s game summary go here link.

-Elmira beat Kalamazoo 4-2 in the ECHL (Gratchev was held pointless), while Florida defeated Greenville 5-2 (Raymond was also held pointless)

November 6, 2011
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–The Ottawa Sun‘s Bruce Garrioch writes about last night’s game (link) and Paul MacLean blamed Bobby Butler for Erik Karlsson‘s giveaway, “No, it’s not Karlsson at all. The forward came back looking for the puck and then turned away.”

–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan reports that Stephane Da Costa, David Runblad, and Jared Cowen have been told to check out of their hotel and find places to live (link).  The Team 1200‘s Steve Lloyd tweeted the news about Cowen on October 22nd (as I mentioned link), so I’m not sure how Bryan Murray’s declaration today relates to what Lloyd heard.  Regardless, here’s what Murray said, “Means that if we send them down we have to cover their rent or mortgage. We’ve provided an opportunity for them to be considered regular players. It’s still up to them every day, like every player who can get traded or sent down. But right now, they should be a little relieved. They can move out of the hotel, get a place and get their lives under way. My belief in young players is they shouldn’t get worse. They’re all contributing to this hockey team and I think they’re going to be better in January than they are right now. That’s sort of what I’m telling them.” Da Costa said “There’s nothing to do (living) in the hotel.”

-James Gordon reports for Senators Extra that Ottawa’s lineup for tonight is not expected to change (link), which means Brian Lee will get another chance to impress

–The Ottawa Citizen‘s Wayne Scalan writes about the Senators penalty killing problems (link), which includes an interesting comment from Paul MacLean, “The penalty killing isn’t very good because a lot of the people we have doing it (Zack Smith, Erik Condra and Daugavins) are really learning how to do it in the NHL. If you’re killing off the first minute of the power play in the AHL, you’ve probably killed off the penalty because the second unit that comes out isn’t as good as the first. Here in the NHL, you have to kill the whole two minutes because the second power-play unit could be better than the first and it’s definitely better than the first unit in the American league. So all the things about penalty killing at this level, our guys are learning. And this is a hard league to learn in.”  As interesting that this is, I thought Craig Anderson made the key assessment of the problem, “The main thing, as with any team, is 200-foot clears. When you get the puck on your stick, the puck’s got to be out. So many times when you watch highlights of the power play/penalty kill, the guy has the puck on his stick, shoots it off the glass, the guy keeps the puck in and the puck ends up in the net. That’s pretty much the Achilles heel of any PK around the league.”

–Sports Illustrated‘s Michael Farber interviews Paul MacLean (link).  He talks about how much the change from Cory Clouston to Paul MacLean is, including Chris Phillips noting “that when players make mistakes now, they generally are corrected and return to the ice without a 10-minute benching.”  MacLean also talked about Erik Karlsson, “He can control a game from the back end really well, but I don’t think he can control it totally. As I told him, I’d like to play him 30  minutes a night, but we’ll only play him 14 if he’s playing 14 for us and 16 for them.”

-Joy Lindsay has her post-game comments posted (link), with Kurt Kleinendorst saying, “I didn’t like our first five. I really didn’t like our last five, which is a little unfortunate. First five, not everybody, but we had some guys that just, they weren’t ready to answer the bell. And they came out hard. And they got a couple goals around our crease, where they just outworked us and outmuscled us and outdetermined us, which is unfortunate. So they get two right off the hop, and then we’re playing catch-up all night. And then, the last five, for me a little disappointing — not that the effort wasn’t there, but that there was no execution. When the game was on the line, and we needed our guys to step up and show a little bit of poise and composure, it just, it wasn’t there. We were passing pucks we should have been shooting, and we were shooting pucks maybe that we should have been passing. But other than that, I think there were a lot of good things in that hockey game. Special teams — much better. Power play, Patty Cannone‘s group in particular, looked really well. The penalty killers did a great job. There’s some progress there. The result isn’t what we were looking for, without a doubt. We’re not here to play well and lose. But, having said that, we know this is a group that’s growing, and we still have a long way to grow.”

November 5, 2011
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The Ottawa Senators lost a close game to Montreal tonight.  Montreal dominated the first period, but did all their damage in the second.  Ottawa worked hard for the come back, but simply could not produce the tying goal.  The box score is here link.  Here’s a look at the goals scored:
1. Montreal, Cole
Michalek fails to get the puck out and then neither he nor Kuba are able to get back in time to prevent the cross-ice pass
2. Montreal, Kostitsyn
Karlsson passes it to the wrong team in front of the net and the Habs score on a 2-on-0
3. Smith (Condra, Kuba)
Condra makes a fantastic pass through two checkers and Smith sneaks it past Price far side

Top-performers:
Zack Smith – scored a goal, was hard on the puck, and played well defensively
Erik Condra – as above minus the goal; lot’s of great, intelligent plays
Chris Neil – threw two huge hits and was his usual, abrasive self

Players who struggled:
Brian Lee – after missing seven straight games he was only noticeable for passing the puck to the wrong team in the slot
Erik Karlsson – he wasn’t awful, but he cost the team the winning goal on a terrible play

Binghamton fell 3-2 to Rochester.  I did not see the game so I’m reliant on reports about it.  The box score is here link, Joy Lindsay’s game summary is here link.  Pat Cannone and Francis Lessard scored while Robin Lehner took the loss.

The Elmira Jackals lost 4-3 to Trenton.  Maxim Gratchev had a goal and an assist.  Bobby Raymond had no points in the Florida Everblades victory over South Carolina.

November 5, 2011
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-Here’s Ottawa’s projected lineup courtesy of The Ottawa Sun: Colin Greening-Jason Spezza-Milan Michalek, Nick Foligno-Stephane Da Costa-Bobby Butler, Erik Condra-Zack Smith-Chris Neil, Nikita Filatov-Jesse Winchester-Zenon Konopka; Chris Phillips-David Rundblad, Filip Kuba-Erik Karlsson, Sergei Gonchar-Jared Cowen.  The lineup was put together before Kaspars Daugavins was recalled (Garrioch has just Tweeted that Brian Lee will play tonight so that David Rundblad is a probable scratch).

–The Ottawa Sun‘s writes about Daniel Alfredsson dealing with his concussion (link), with the captain saying, “If I do too much at home with the kids, I get light-headed and a little dizzy. I’ve got to sit down for a bit and then I feel OK again. Until that’s gone, I’m not going to do anything physically.”

-Garrioch, in another article (link, echoed by Ken Warren in Senators Extra, link), wonders about payback on Wojtek Wolski, but Zenon Konopka downplays the possibility: “It’s different with Wolski. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. We’re playing New York next week and I can’t get myself in trouble by saying anything. I have been fined by the league before for comments.”

-Pat Hickey, writing for The Ottawa Citizen, looks at tonight’s game from a Montreal perspective (link).  Hickey includes frank analysis of Craig Anderson‘s play thus far, “Ottawa thought it had solved its perennial goaltending problems with the acquisition of Craig Anderson, but he has struggled. Anderson, who will start against the Canadiens, has been fortunate that Spezza and Milan Michalek are off to fast starts. They are the reason Anderson has a 6-3 record. If the Senators were counting on their goalies, they would be in trouble since their goaltending ranks last in the NHL. Anderson has a 3.80 goals-against average and an .880 save percentage. Alex Auld, who did a great job backing up  Carey Price in Montreal last season, checks in with a 4.88 GAA and an .830 save percentage.”

-For stats fans you might want to dig into the website Behind the Net, which has (among other things) statistics like the number of PIM’s per 60 minutes a player takes or draws (link).  Personally, the circumstance of a penalty taken (in which zone, what was the game situation (ie, tied, behind, etc), and so forth) would be more impactful, but the site looks like a great place to start mining for data.

-Joy Lindsay Tweet’s today’s Binghamton for tonight’s game against Rochester (with Louie Caporusso recalled from Elmira and Robin Lehner sent down from Ottawa–so Mike Radja and Brian Stewart have been sent down): Grant-Cannone-Petersson, Hoffman-O’Brien-Parrish, Cowick-Hamilton-Downing, Dziurzynski-Caporusso-Lessard

–Eric Gryba has joined the Binghamton Twitter horde (link)

-The Elmira Jackals play Trenton tonight;  Bobby Raymond‘s Florida Everblades are also in action (Raymond had no points in Florida’s loss on Wednesday)

November 4, 2011
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-Both The Ottawa Sun‘s Bruce Garrioch (link) and The Ottawa Citizen‘s Ken Warren (link) talk about the Sens numbers so far this year.  Garrioch provides the following list: 1. Second best power play (behind Colorado), 2. Craig Anderson‘s brutal numbers, 3. Fifth in goals scored, 4. Erik Karlsson leads blueliners in assists and is tied with Tampa Bay’s Marc-Andre Bergeron in points, 5. They’ve allowed the most powerplay goals in the league and are the most penalized team in the league.  Warren talks more generally about Anderson and the PK, including comments from Paul MacLean, “Our goalie is as good as our team. When our team is good, our goalie is good. When our team isn’t good, it makes it hard for our goalie and our goalie isn’t good. On the nights when we could all be better, he could be better, too.” And “It’s a hard thing to learn and right now, the learning curve is pretty flat. We have good people we’re working with, but they’re playing against good people in a hard league. They’re going to get it. I just can’t tell you when they’re going to get it, but they’re getting better at it. I will tell you that.”  Craig Anderson, for once, did not throw the team under the bus saying, “It has to be a collective effort and everybody’s got to be better, starting with me.”

-Garrioch, in another article link, writes about Nick Foligno wanting to step up, “I think they know what to expect of me. I know it’s been a tough couple of years for everybody in the organization with regards to some things that have happened. Now, it’s almost a clean slate. I’m looking forward to showing them the player that I can be and will be. It starts with the start that I’ve had (six points in 13 games) and I need to continue it. But I feel like I’m a guy that can help the team in an offensive category as well as being really reliable defensively.”

-Garrioch writes about Peter Regin‘s injury, who will miss another six weeks, but the center sounds optimistic going forward (link), “I’m pretty happy that it’s only rehab and I can get back to playing. With problems with the same shoulder I thought I might have to go back (for surgery), but the results showed that it wasn’t necessary.  I talked to different doctors just to make sure and everybody I spoke to said (surgery) wouldn’t help me much right now. I’m going to give it a couple more weeks to make sure I’m strong enough when I get back. It sounds long, but it’s not that bad, it’s six weeks from now and hopefully I can play the rest of the games after that. I’m happy that I can do my rehab and, hopefully, get back soon.”

-Warren writes about Brendan Shanahan’s explanation for not suspending Wojtek Wolski (link), with Shanahan saying, “Wolski’s not a dirty player, and has no history of being a dirty player. There are collisions that occur on the ice where, unfortunately, one player sees it just prior. On this play here, Wolski has got to get out to this point. You see here, (Marian) Gaborik, the left winger, has to come all the way to Wolski’s point on the right side because Wolski’s not there. [Wolski] ran into Alfredsson trying to get there. We’ve seen enough of these now —  and I don’t like these — but seen enough of them where when one player sees [the hit] just prior, he tenses up. And sometimes he even leans in, because he’s bracing for an impact. When both guys see it, it’s two guys tensing up and they bounce off each other and everybody’s fine. It’s really unfortunate here, when one player doesn’t see it and the other guy does. Now, if I felt this was intentional, or if it wasn’t at the last instant, just prior. [If] I might have felt there was any kind of sneakiness or history of these types of offenses for Wolski, he would have been suspended.”  So, in essence, it was a reputation non-call.

-For a moment-by-moment look at the Wolski hit, check out Sports Illustrated‘s Stu Hackel’s article (link)

-Rob Brodie has a Q&A with Colin Greening (link) as well as an interview with Nick Foligno (link)

–The Hockey News‘ Ryan Kennedy writes about over and underachievers (link), including Ottawa in the former category, “The Sens have a 102.3 special teams rating, but have been outscored by eight goals through 13 games. Pretty sure we just saw what will be their longest winning streak of the season end against Boston. Bottom line: special teams can’t win the game if you’re being outscored at even strength.”  Kennedy is generalising, since teams have had success in that case (Montreal is the most recent example), but it’s unlikely Ottawa will remain in a playoff position if those stats don’t improve.

–Hockey Futures’ John Henkelman takes a look at Ottawa’s depth (link).  There’s nothing new here, although Henkelman puts Wacey Hamilton on left wing (instead of center) and includes Roman Wick (who I suppose could come back from Switzerland, but it hardly seems likely)

-The Binghamton Senators lost 3-2 to Albany last night.  I did not see the game so I’m reliant on reports about it.  For the box score go here link, for Joy Lindsay’s game summary go here link.  Mark Borowiecki scored his first professional goal, while veteran Mark Parrish added the other.  Mike McKenna took the loss, with his record this season falling to 1-4. Parrish and Jim O’Brien finished -2.

-Joy Lindsay Tweets Kaspars Daugavins is skating with Binghamton this morning

–Robin Lehner has joined the Binghamton horde on Twitter (link)

-For those interesting, Sportsnet‘s Ian Mendes has the story behind why every Senator wears his particular number (link)

November 3, 2011
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–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan writes about last night’s game (link) which includes quotes that get to the heart of the matter.  Paul MacLean said, “Obviously, coming to town with all the reports of their [the Bruins] demise, they responded real well. I didn’t really think they gave us much of an opportunity to play and we didn’t respond really well. I thought they were a better team than we were (Tuesday). When we did make good plays, we couldn’t make the next one. We couldn’t put two or three passes together like we had been doing. A big strength of our team the last six games was how well we played in our own zone and (Tuesday) it was an Achilles heel.”  Jared Cowen added, “We kind of knew what to expect. We didn’t really play in a way that hindered them. They were keeping us in our own zone and making us play defence quite a bit, which is something we obviously have to work on.”

-Allen Panzeri, writing for Senators Extra (link), quotes Craig Anderson happily throwing his teammates under the bus again, “You want to limit the odd-man rushes in this game. That’s what’s going to kill you. When you start giving up three-on-twos, two-on-ones, and breakaways, you can make a few saves, but those are good players you’re playing against, and eventually they’re going to score.”  Anderson should take a page from his coach and talk about how winning and losing is a team game rather than blaming defensive breakdowns for all the goals scored on him.  I wonder if this approach was part of his problem in Colorado.

-In the same article Panzeri singled out David Rundblad as a big part of the problem last night.  It wasn’t a great night for Rundblad, but he was nowhere near the worst player on the ice.  I do agree when he writes “in the end didn’t get the saves they needed from Anderson.”

–Sports Illustrated‘s Stu Hackel looks at early season surprises in the NHL (link), including Ottawa, but there’s nothing new here.

–The Hockey News offers up a mea culpa about their prediction that Edmonton will finish at the bottom of the Western Conference, but won’t do the same for Ottawa insisting that they were lucky to win six games in a row (link)–apparently all the teams they played aren’t very good, ergo, Ottawa isn’t very good.  The errors in logic here are a bit astounding, but in brief if Ottawa can beat other teams that aren’t very good it’s pretty hard to see how they’ll sink down to where THN predicted.

–Tim Sestito, who elbowed Nikita Filatov in the head (and in an earlier game ran Mark Borowiecki from behind) was suspended for five games by the AHL (link).  Joy Lindsay has included a Youtube link of the brutal hit (which you can watch here link).

-Joy Lindsay provides the following forward lines for Binghamton: Grant-Cannone-Petersson, Hoffman-O’Brien-Parrish, Cowick-Radja-Downing, Dziurzynski-Hamilton-Lessard

–Hockey Futures D. J. Powers takes a look at college hockey through October (link), which includes very little about Ottawa’s prospects.  He writes that Michael Sdao (Princeton) had two points in the ECAC’s opening tournament, that Ben Blood and Derek Forbort are an excellent pairing on the blueline, and that Jeff Costello‘s (Notre Dame) injury is considered week-to-week.

November 2, 2011
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-It’s been confirmed that Daniel Alfredsson has suffered a concussion and will miss at least a week

–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan (link) and The Ottawa Citizen‘s Allen Panzeri (link) both report Bryan Murray’s puzzlement over Brendan Shanahan’s decision to not suspend Wojtek Wolski.  The explanation Murray was offered was as follows: “Basically what I was told is the player (Wolski) reacted to contact and stiffened up, but didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. He just happened to hit Alfredsson in the head.”  But Murray doesn’t sound as fired up as I expected, saying “It’s my player and I have an emotional attachment to him, so no, I told him I didn’t agree. I felt that the player did go out of his way, a little, to make contact. That it was an elbow involved in the play, and I thought we had determined, a shoulder check, contacted with short vs.  taller players and all that type of thing, would be considered an accidental hit, but an elbow to the head would be a suspension.”  Maybe Murray is being circumspect, but the emphasis he puts on it is that he disagrees because it’s his player.

-Panzeri (above) says that Ottawa has one of the foremost experts on concussions on staff (Dr. Mark Aubry), which is fortunate for Alfredsson

–The Ottawa Sun‘s Chris Stevenson writes about Ottawa beating expectations (link).  I recommend reading the full article and I agree with Stevenson when he says, “One of the first things you would look at in such a dramatic improvement is the goaltending, but I think the biggest reason for the Senators’ turnaround has been the fact they have gotten much better in how they break out of their end. They’re getting the puck out.”  He also rightly points out that the Sens breakouts (good passes out of their zone) has been a key improvement as well.  A final point in the article, “One of the things the Senators like is how good they’ve been at recovering the puck after a scoring chance on the power play, keeping the opposition’s penalty killers on the ice and grinding them down. That’s nothing but hard work.”

–The Ottawa Sun‘s Don Brennan writes about the Sens streak (link) which includes an interesting comment from Colin Greening, “I like it in front of the net. Statistically, if you look at where most of the goals are scored, it’s within like six feet of the crease, and if they want to put me there, fine. I’m a big body, I can screen goalies, make it hard for them to see the puck. When you have talented shooters like Karlsson, Michalek, Spezza, Gonchar, obviously, they’re able to shoot around me, which is nice. Sometimes it can be bad, sometimes it can be good. Sometimes you need to put in a little extra padding in certain areas … I don’t want to say too much. It’s part of the game.”

-Allen Panzeri writes for Senators Extra that the Sens were motivated by their embarrassing losses at the beginning of the season (link), with Jason Spezza saying, “I think they were wake-up calls for us. In hindsight, it was better that we lost those games 7-1 and 7-2, instead of 3-2 or 2-1, because it doesn’t allow you to think you were in the game. We weren’t doing things right, and when we started to do things right we were rewarded for it.”

-Joy Lindsay reports that Bobby Raymond has been sent back to Florida in the ECHL

–Marcus Sorensen has finally been loaned to a team in the Allsvenskan (Boras, link)

-Power rankings are out (TSN link, THN link, and ESPN link) with Ottawa ranked 19th, 17th, and 8th.  Adam Proteau (THN) writes “Have to give coach Paul MacLean, young Sens credit for six straight wins” and Scott Burnside (ESPN) saying “What a turnaround for the red-hot Senators, who have won six in a row after Sunday’s victory in the Battle of Ontario. Perhaps more impressive is the manner in which the Sens are stealing victories, as they did from the Panthers and the New York Rangers after falling behind. The Sens boast the top-ranked power play in the league but rank dead last in goals allowed per game. Go figure.”

-Prospect updates (their position in team scoring is noted in brackets, defence compared to defence):
CHL
Jakub Culek (Rimouski, QMJHL) 14-2-5-7 (9th)
Mark Stone (Brandon, WHL) 15-11-20-31 (1st)
Stefan Noesen (Plymouth, OHL) 11-2-10-12 (5th)
Matt Puempel (Peterborough, OHL) 15-7-7-14 (t-1st)
Shane Prince (Ottawa 67s, OHL) 8-3-11-14 (4th)
Jean-Gabriel Pageau (Gatineau, QMJHL) 12-14-7-21 (1st)
Darren Kramer (Spokane, WHL) 11-7-6-13 (2nd)
Jordan Fransoo (Brandon, WHL) 15-0-1-1 (6th)
SEL
Jakob Silfverberg (Brynas) 17-6-7-13 (2nd)
Marcus Sorensen (Skelleftea J20) 8-2-3-5 (has been loaned to Boras)
Fredrik Claesson (Djurgarden) 16-1-3-4 (3rd)
Mika Zibanejad (Djurgarden) DNP
NCAA
Ben Blood (WCHA-North Dakota) 8-1-2-3 (3rd)
Chris Wideman (CCHA-Miami) 10-1-3-4 (t-1st)
Jeff Costello (CCHA-Notre Dame) 2-0-2-2 (injured)
Brad Peltz (ECAC-Yale) DNP
Michael Sdao (ECAC-Princeton) DNP
Bryce Aneloski (WCHA-Nebraska-Omaha) 8-1-6-7 (1st)
Max McCormick (CCHA-Ohio State) 4-1-3-4 (injured)
Ryan Dzingel (CCHA-Ohio State) 7-3-4-7 (t-2nd)

November 1, 2011
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