GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Philadelphia Flyers - 7:00pm ET - Thu. Apr. 11th, 2013

Bring out the cliches today... "Keep it simple" "Do the little things" "Back to basics" etc...

sens win.

LeKing wrote:

NEELY wrote:Jesus, you almost wish they had some of those guys in the lineup so the Sens don't take them lightly. Playing guys that are playing for NHL jobs next year is so dangerous.

Good lord, if the Sens take ANY team lightly these days, the joke's on them.

shabbs wrote:

LeKing wrote:

You nailed it!!!

Yerp. It's like playoff hockey, already. Nervous.

Yeah...pretty nervous. Don't know what to think right now.

Michalek? Are you around?

Ken Warren ‏@Citizenkwarren 1m
Zibanejad first on the for Senators @ morning skate in Philly

Zib on the ice, good to hear he is OK.

Sylvain St-Laurent ‏@Syl_St_Laurent 1m
Les trios ce matin: Greening-Pageau-Condra, Latendresse-Turris-Alfredsson, Conacher-Zibanejad-Silfverberg, Kassian-Smith-Neil.

We are now certified Regin free !

And MacLean still hates JOB.

Don Brennan ‏@SunDoniB 53s
Fifth line is Michalek, OBrien and Regin. It would also appear Lundin and Cowen will watch, not play #nhl #sens

No Michalek

Well I'll be happy enough with that lineup. If Pageau is going to play, I'm not sure who else you would scratch to get O'Brien in the lineup...maybe scratch Kassian for tomorrow's game against NJ, but not tonight vs Philly.

It'd be tough to mess with the Turris or Z-Bad lines, after the "chances" they've been able to generate (you have to expect they will start "finishing" more)....

Lehner might start tonight.

Anderson has look very ordinary his last 2 games, I think you need to give him #3 to see if he can snap out of it on his own. Give Lehner the start vs the Devils.

Hoags wrote:Sylvain St-Laurent ‏@Syl_St_Laurent 1m
Les trios ce matin: Greening-Pageau-Condra, Latendresse-Turris-Alfredsson, Conacher-Zibanejad-Silfverberg, Kassian-Smith-Neil.

We are now certified Regin free !

And MacLean still hates JOB.

Don Brennan ‏@SunDoniB 53s
Fifth line is Michalek, OBrien and Regin. It would also appear Lundin and Cowen will watch, not play #nhl #sens

No Michalek

A few things from that:

1.Love that Pageau will center Greening and Condra.

2.Love and hope that Smith is now the 4th line C for a while - with Neil - because damn, they've both been lost out there.

3.Conacher with Zibanejad and Silfverberg is...probably not gonna work long term basically because of what happened to Zib the other night. I'd love to see Conacher with Turris and Alfie and Latendresse there to 'protect' the Swedish kids.

I don't think the concussion prone Latendresse is a deterrant. I am not sure I buy into the theory of deterrants period. Conacher is small but he sticks up for teammates and don't take no Dung from anyone.

Neil and Kassian need to pound faces if the Flyers take liberties. Rinaldo is out so we may not see much of that.

Lehner to start.

Briere not playing.

wprager wrote:Briere not playing.

That should help. I'm expecting a good back and forth game with lots of chances. I really hope the Sens can open up and pot a few (11 or 12 will do just fine).