Clouston Shakes Up Lines

From the Ottawa Sun
Bruce Garrioch

The Senators could have a different look Saturday against the Thrashers.

Senators coach Cory Clouston adjusted the top two lines at practice today by moving winger Dany Heatley to play with Mike Fisher while Nick Foligno moved to the left side of Jason Spezza.

Whether it stays that way against the Thrashers tomorrow as the six-game road trip continues at Philips Arena is another story.

"We sometimes change the lines during the period," said Clouston today.

The Senators expect to have defenceman Brian Lee back from an upper body injury while a decision on whether Brian Elliott makes the start won't be confirmed until tomorrow.

"I thought Brian was our best player (against Carolina)," said Clouston.

So, this isn't for sure, but it could happen. We'll see.

I would prefer to just leave things as is personally. Our top line is finally starting to come together again, I wouldn't mess with that chemistry right now.

SensGirl11 wrote:From the Ottawa Sun
Bruce Garrioch

The Senators could have a different look Saturday against the Thrashers.

Senators coach Cory Clouston adjusted the top two lines at practice today by moving winger Dany Heatley to play with Mike Fisher while Nick Foligno moved to the left side of Jason Spezza.

Whether it stays that way against the Thrashers tomorrow as the six-game road trip continues at Philips Arena is another story.

"We sometimes change the lines during the period," said Clouston today.

The Senators expect to have defenceman Brian Lee back from an upper body injury while a decision on whether Brian Elliott makes the start won't be confirmed until tomorrow.

"I thought Brian was our best player (against Carolina)," said Clouston.

So, this isn't for sure, but it could happen. We'll see.

I would prefer to just leave things as is personally. Our top line is finally starting to come together again, I wouldn't mess with that chemistry right now.

meh at this point, I figure Clouston is just seeing who has chemistry together at this point, the season is pretty much a loss, so why not see how may have a bit of rhythm together going into next season? I would like to see a few more call ups though, maybe it's time to give Zubov a game or two?

True enough, I'm just enjoying the rest of the season and seeing the top line get their Dung together again.

But, I do agree that it's good to find chemistry elsewhere, in case of injuries etc...

Zubov and Z. Smith please!

No, this is great. Heatley needs to be separated from Spezza 5 on 5. They can be re-united on the PP, but we need to see if he can create some room with Fisher and Shannon. Folingo's job won't change, but he'll have to be aware that Spezza doesn't cycle like Fisher - he'll have to make sure he has an open line of communication with Spezza and Alfie.

Should be good!

I definitely support this move. I'm not quite sure why it didn't happened sooner.

Mojo wrote:I definitely support this move. I'm not quite sure why it didn't happened sooner.

no one wanted to have spezza crying on their shoulder because the two have broken up.

Until I see a move to put Fisher on the wing I don't want to hear about any more line changes. Yeah, I'm grumpy.

wprager wrote:Until I see a move to put Fisher on the wing I don't want to hear about any more line changes. Yeah, I'm grumpy.

A grumpy Cylon can't be a good thing.

That reminds me, I've *got to* change that avatar. My favorite show right now is Lost, but all the avatars I've seen so far are of the characters and, honestly, I could not pull that off (besides, I took the "Which Lost character are you" test and I'm something like 75% Kate). I need a log from one of the stations -- the Swan, perhaps.

Maybe Vincent?

Edit: maybe not. This one's probably not well-known unless you are a bit of a Lost junkie.

Ok - now that you've changed your avatar, my previous comments make no sense.

There has to be a way to change the avatar "for future posts only".
The current system just messes up too many comments.

Yeah, I'd suggested that once but I'm pretty sure it's not a configuration change.