Saturday October 10th, 2009, 7:00PM: Atlanta Thrashers @ Ottawa Senators (NO TV)

danishh · 10-09-2009, 05:11 PM

2-0-0 @ 2-1-0

RETURN OF THE SCHUBERT

Projected Lines

Ottawa
Michalek-Spezza-Foligno
Kovalev-Fisher-Alfredsson
Cheechoo-Regin-Neil
Ruutu-Kelly-Donovan

Phillips-Volchenkov
Campoli-Karlsson
Picard-Carkner

Elliott

**Winchester and Shannon both practiced, but are not expected to play. Kuba did not practice and is not expected to play.

Atlanta
Kovalchuk-Antropov-Little
Kozlov-White-Afinogenov
Kane-Peverly-Armstrong
Boulton-Reasoner-Thorburn

Enstrom-Bogosian
Kubina-Hainsey
Salmela-Schubert

Pavelic

Leaders

	Atlanta	Ottawa
Goals	Kovalchuk (4)	Alfredsson, Regin (2)
Assists	Little, Enstrom (3)	Many (1)
Points	Kovalchuk (5)	Alfredsson (3)
PIM	Kovalchuk (6)	Ruutu (6)
Hits	Bogosian (5)	Neil (13)
Blk Sht	Kubina (10)	Volchenkov (12)
TOI F	Kovalchuk (23:50)	Spezza (20:31)
TOI D	Enstrom (22:10)	Phillips (21:47)

History

Season Series: 0-0-0
Last Year's Series: 2-2
Last Game: Ottawa 3 @ Atlanta 6

Players to Watch

Ottawa:

Spezza has scored 3 goals and 2 assists in the last 2 games Vs. Atlanta. He's had no success in the first 3 games for the Senators and now has lost Daniel Alfredsson on his wing. Should be interesting to see how he responds to this change.

Atlanta:

Kovalchuk is leading the Thrashers in almost every category. He is the Atlanta Thrashers. The best goalscorer over the past 7 years, if the sens can stop him, they will probably win the game.

News

NHL.COM Preview
TSN - Spezza, Neil tussle at practice
SUN - Sens Shuffle Lines

Streams

Video: None known at the moment, but NHL Gamecentre may carry it if an atlanta channel is covering the game.
Audio: The Team 1200

Cheer Zone

Puckminsterfullerene · 10-09-2009, 05:14 PM

Regin also has two goals. Go Sens go!!!

The Swedish Flash · 10-09-2009, 05:25 PM

Elliott is expected to start

Kovalchuk is on fire 4 goals from 6 shots . The Thrashers are looking good , it will be tough to get a W if Spezza and Kovalev can't get it going

Kamina · 10-09-2009, 05:38 PM

wtf, no tv

Bingo Sens · 10-09-2009, 05:43 PM

I'm looking to get 2 tickets to this game, for upper bowl, anywhere but the ends and preferably lower half. Any recommendations? I was looking at the official Sens site and the prices seemed pretty steep (like 60$ a ticket if I was reading it right)

chi001 · 10-09-2009, 05:54 PM

Wow, no tv.

aragorn · 10-09-2009, 05:59 PM

Saturday's Lineup:

Hummm? Two LWers playing with Spezza who also shoots left. Two RWers playing with Fisher who also shoots right. Two RWers playing with Regin who shoots left & finally a LWer, a RWer & a centre who shoots left.

HSF · 10-09-2009, 06:08 PM

wow their highest hitter only has 5 hits and is also very young?

seems like we may be able to exploit their softness?

Marty Straka · 10-09-2009, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Ottawa Senators

I'm looking to get 2 tickets to this game, for upper bowl, anywhere but the ends and preferably lower half. Any recommendations? I was looking at the official Sens site and the prices seemed pretty steep (like 60$ a ticket if I was reading it right)

Coke Zero zone is your best bet if you want cheap tickets.. and if im not mistaken its Metro Family Night too.. 4 tix, 4 hotdogs, 4 drinks.. for 99$

**Milan the Great** · 10-09-2009, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Ottawa Senators

I'm looking to get 2 tickets to this game, for upper bowl, anywhere but the ends and preferably lower half. Any recommendations? I was looking at the official Sens site and the prices seemed pretty steep (like 60$ a ticket if I was reading it right)

www.usedottawa.com

Search it in there and you'll get loads of results and the prices are pretty fair. You can also negotiate a bit through email and pick them up right before the game.

SNAPshot · 10-09-2009, 06:19 PM

I got my tickets on Kijiji today. Good times.

Many tickets were still available this morning on Capitaltickets.ca.

It's going to be an exciting game, I hope our stars finally wake up from their slumber.

Iamnameless · 10-09-2009, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Ottawa Senators

I'm looking to get 2 tickets to this game, for upper bowl, anywhere but the ends and preferably lower half. Any recommendations? I was looking at the official Sens site and the prices seemed pretty steep (like 60$ a ticket if I was reading it right)

Wow, must have had a lot of tickets go quick. I was checking this morning and there was still tons of the center ice-upper bowl $40 tickets left.
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The Mars Volchenkov · 10-09-2009, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HSF

wow their highest hitter only has 5 hits and is also very young?

seems like we may be able to exploit their softness?

The hit stat is very subjective, and every arena is different in what they believe constitutes a hit. It's a pretty useless stat a lot of the time.

Ottawa has one of the more generous stat guys in the league I find.

Evander Kane should probably keep his head up if Volchenkov is on the ice. He's out to pwn all noobs.

shabbs · 10-09-2009, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Palladium Drive

Elliott is expected to start

Yeah, Clouston will announce it tomorrow but it's expected to be Elliott.

Interesting factoid: Elliott's first NHL win came against Atlanta... it was on Oct. 10th, 2007. Tomorrow is Oct. 10th and Atlanta is in town.

Eery.

danishh · 10-09-2009, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shabbs

Yeah, Clouston will announce it tomorrow but it's expected to be Elliott.

Interesting factoid: Elliott's first NHL win came against Atlanta... it was on Oct. 10th, 2007. Tomorrow is Oct. 10th and Atlanta is in town.

Eery.

i remember that. That was when emery was injured so elliott got to play up here. Him and Gerber were on fire for the first month.

The Mars Volchenkov · 10-09-2009, 07:45 PM

Pretty disappointed it's not on TV when Elliott may start. Leclaire is obviously the talk of the town, but Elliott still has lots of potential and I was interested in seeing what adjustments he made over the summer, as he always comes back better than the year before. He barely got any work in the pre-season as well.

shabbs · 10-09-2009, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danishh

i remember that. That was when emery was injured so elliott got to play up here. Him and Gerber were on fire for the first month.

Elliott got the first star that game too...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=271010028

Back in the day...

Chrass · 10-09-2009, 07:50 PM

Does anyone know what's wrong with Kuba?? Picard and Campoli is the scariest tandem for mistakes I've ever seen...can't wait till Kuba's back or Lee is called up to take his rightful place over Picard.

littleD · 10-09-2009, 08:24 PM

Might snag myself a ticket tomorrow. Two games attended in a row would be a record for me.

. Would also double the amount I took in all last year.
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CapitalCityGoofball · 10-09-2009, 08:30 PM

ok i'm laughing and vomiting in my mouth at the same time reading this GDT.

That Kovalchuk pic is just too much!

CapitalCityGoofball · 10-09-2009, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrass

Does anyone know what's wrong with Kuba??

The classic "lower-body injury" apparently....

Huston · 10-09-2009, 08:37 PM

So this is in Ottawa, and CBC can't be bothered to show it?

They need to take a bat, rap it in barbed wired and shove it up their ass.

CapitalCityGoofball · 10-09-2009, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huston

So this is in Ottawa, and CBC can't be bothered to show it?

They need to take a bat, rap it in barbed wired and shove it up their ass.

Agree. Total *********.

Gil Gunderson · 10-09-2009, 08:41 PM

Flood the CBC with e-mails before its too late!

Alfredsson11 · 10-09-2009, 09:13 PM

what email address did you use to send them