GAME DAY: Edmonton @ Ottawa, 2PM, Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Who: Edmonton Oilers @ Ottawa Senators
When: Saturday, February 11, 2012 @ 20PM
Where: CBC

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The Story:

In the second and final meeting between these two in the season, the Senators host the Oilers in this Hockey Day in Canada matinee. The Senators took game 1 on the road in Edmonton, winning 5-2 on November 17th. Milan Michalek and Jason Spezza each recorded two points, while Anton Lander and Ryan Jones scored the only Oilers goals.

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Ottawa (28-22-7)

The Senators finally snapped a 7 game losing skid with a 4-3 win over Nashville on Chris Phillips 1000th NHL game celebration, in which he also scored 2 goals. Ottawa sits 2nd in Northeast division and 7th in the Eastern conference with 63 pts in 57 games.

Team Leaders:

Goals: Milan Michalek [23]
Assists: Erik Karlsson [40]
Points: Jason Spezza [54]
PIMs: Zenon Kenopka [168]
+/-: Flip Kuba/Erik Condra [11]

Players-to-Watch:

Kyle Turris has seen the Oilers 6 times in his career, all as a member of the Phoenix Coyotes, in which he has tallied 4 points (1G, 3A).

Starting Line-up:

Milan Michalek - Jason Spezza - Bobby Butler
Colin Greening - Kyle Turris - Daniel Alfredsson
Kaspars Daugavins - Zack Smith - Erik Condra
Nick Foligno - Jim O'Brien - Chris Neil

Filip Kuba - Erik Karlsson
Jared Cowen - Sergei Gonchar
Chris Phillips - Brian Lee

Craig Anderson

Injuries:

Peter Regin
Jesse Winchester

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Oilers (21-28-5)

Edmonton is on a 2 game losing streak, coming off of a 4-2 road loss to the Red Wings. The Oilers sit 5th in Northwest division and 14th in the Western conference.

Team Leaders:

Goals: Jordan Eberle [24]
Assists: Jordan Eberle [30]
Points: Jordan Eberle [54]
PIMs: Ben Eager [79]
+/-: Jordan Eberle [4]

Players-to-Watch:

Jordan Eberle leads the Oilers in nearly all major statistical categories, plus/minus, goals, assists and points.

Starting Line-up:

Taylor Hall - Sam Gagner - Jordan Eberle
Ryan Smyth - Shawn Horcoff - Ales Hemsky
Magnus Paajarvi - Eric Belanger - Ryan Jones
Ben Eager - Anton Lander - Lennart Petrell

Ryan Whitney - Corey Potter
Ladislav Smid - Jeff Petry
Andy Sutton - Tom Gilbert

Nikolai Khabibulin

Injuries:

Theo Peckham
Taylor Fedun

I am editing, so I know that the info is not correct, but I wanted to get a GDT up since there wasn't, and didn't want to wate anyone's time by working on it then posting to find out one already got up.

In true wprager form, he doesn't bother to notice this was posted and posts his own.

SeawaySensFan wrote:In true wprager form, he doesn't bother to notice this was posted and posts his own.

What are you talking about?

wprager wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:In true wprager form, he doesn't bother to notice this was posted and posts his own.

What are you talking about?

I was 6 minutes ahead of you in posting this thread, but I posted and then edited while you posted after editing

Dung son, the Sens dads trip is coming up?!?!?!?!??! Chalk up another winning streak.

Big Ev wrote:Dung son, the Sens dads trip is coming up?!?!?!?!??! Chalk up another winning streak.

I would enjoy that very much. Even though it could derail the rebuild.

GO SENS GO!!! Let's do this!!!!

No beers today... gotta head into work later today for a weekend production deployment. Wheee....

Riprock wrote:I was 6 minutes ahead of you in posting this thread, but I posted and then edited while you posted after editing

First, you cannot prove any of this because there is not second thread.

Second, your 2nd post (saying how you are editing the first post) was posted 1 minute before my alleged-but-completed thread.

shabbs wrote:GO SENS GO!!! Let's do this!!!!

No beers today... gotta head into work later today for a weekend production deployment. Wheee....

That's no excuse.

SeawaySensFan wrote:In true wprager form, he doesn't bother to notice this was posted and posts his own.

Not to get all serious or anything, but exactly what did you mean by"in true wprager form"?

Nice ceremony for Philly

Alfie makes in 1-0 on a nice pass from Karlsson

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