GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Philadelphia Flyers - 7:00pm EST - Thu. Nov. 12th, 2009 PLUS post game thoughts

Clouston: Leclaire starts. Winchester and Donovan not playing.

SDH89 wrote:I'm feeling a win tonight. Looking at that Flyer line-up isn't as impressive as I thought it was. They have a lot of youth in their bottom 6. Alot of injuries over there (Gagne, Briere, JVR)

Sens 5-3.

A couple sites are now saying both Briere and JVR will be playing tonight. We've got our hands full. Time to see how me measure up against the contenders.

Briere is listed as probable and JVR is expected to play...

Projected lines:

Forwards:
Hartnell - Richards - Giroux
Van Riemsdyk - Carter - Briere
Carcillo - Betts - Laperriere
Pyorala - Powe - Asham

Defense:
Carle - Pronger
Coburn - Timonen
Bartulis - Syvret

Goaltenders:
Emery
Boucher

Bartulis?? Who??

shabbs wrote:Sens lines at the game day skate today:

Defensive pairings:
Phillips-Kuba
Campoli-Lee
Picard-Carkner

Gohan wrote:Bartulis?? Who??

AHL guy called up to fill in for Tollefsen I think...

Clouston post-skate presser from today:

http://senators.nhl.com/v2/ext/Audio/091112_Clouston.mp3

Game Notes for tonight's game:

http://senators.nhl.com/v2/ext/PDFs/091112_Ott-vs-Phi.pdf

Don't worry Pronger! Your hip's not gonna explode on the ice tonight.

Or will it...

Gohan wrote:

shabbs wrote:Sens lines at the game day skate today:

Defensive pairings:
Phillips-Kuba
Campoli-Lee
Picard-Carkner

I may have sharted a little...I mean.... Wow, this is going to be interesting.

They were together last game and it was a debacle. I actually thought Lee did a fine job of covering for the 'worst trade of the decade'...

Has Clouston put Phillips with Lee during a game yet?

They were also together last game. He mixed and matched a lot, but the Lee-Campoli pairing was intact for a lot of it.

shabbs wrote:Has Clouston put Phillips with Lee during a game yet?

Not that I've seen but it's not a bad idea. I feel like Lee hasn't had an ample chance of being paired with a good defenceman.

I would go:

Phillips-Lee
Kuba-Picard
Campoli-Carkner

I hope Lee sticks with the team once Volchenkov gets back considering he's been better than both Campoli and Picard. He's still too small and his point shots are always getting blocked but he will learn with time up in the bigs.

Kovalfie wrote:

shabbs wrote:Has Clouston put Phillips with Lee during a game yet?

Not that I've seen but it's not a bad idea. I feel like Lee hasn't had an ample chance of being paired with a good defenceman.

I would go:

Phillips-Lee
Kuba-Picard
Campoli-Carkner

I hope Lee sticks with the team once Volchenkov gets back considering he's been better than both Campoli and Picard. He's still too small and his point shots are always getting blocked but he will learn with time up in the bigs.

Lee sucks!

I've got a bad feeling about this one. The Flyers have been blowing out teams lately and our defense has been turning pucks over left and right. This one has the potential to get ugly. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

Urkie wrote:I've got a bad feeling about this one. The Flyers have been blowing out teams lately and our defense has been turning pucks over left and right. This one has the potential to get ugly. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

I hear you, I'm feeling the same way...

GO SENS GO!!!

Beers at the ready...