GAME DAY: Buffalo Sabres @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm ET - Wed. Dec. 16th, 2009 - Sens win 2-0!

Winchester is a machine at creating turnovers

Carrie in da house!

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES!!!!!

Atta boy Elliot! Out-dueled the best tender in the league. And *again* McGuire is nowhere to be seen.

Goaltending controversy when Leclaire comes back?

I think our goaltending has to be just about the worst in the league.

elliot gets the shutout!!!!!!!

Certainly a big answer for this team after losing to the Leafs and losing Spezza for two months. Elliott with another shutout. Just the tonic that this team needs to get back on track again.

asq2 wrote:I think our goaltending has to be just about the worst in the league.

Agreed.

WOOHOO!!! Sens win! Shutout for Elliott! Nicely done.

PKC wrote:How do you call that a penalty against Ruutu? What exactly did he do? Is the NHL moving to a no-touching polcy? Or has the move happened already?

To be fair the interference penalty that gave us the 5-3 was strange since Michalek was banging at the puck. SENS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, that Miller guy isn't too bad.

A perfect evening... Sens win, Elliott gets a shutout, Habs and Leafs lose! YAHOO!!!

My only question... why was Ruutu out there with less than 2 min to go? Really...

shabbs wrote:My only question... why was Ruutu out there with less than 2 min to go? Really...

you do know he kills penalties, right?

RobbyJ wrote:

PKC wrote:How do you call that a penalty against Ruutu? What exactly did he do? Is the NHL moving to a no-touching polcy? Or has the move happened already?

To be fair the interference penalty that gave us the 5-3 was strange since Michalek was banging at the puck. SENS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, that Miller guy isn't too bad.

Imo they spent the entire game trying to make up for that ridiculous 5 minute boarding call. I could care less what TSN thinks of it, Ruutu clearly made contact (although slight) with the shoulder before crunching the head. That was a 2 minute roughing or charging penalty at worst. Terrible call.

After that, the whole game was a clusterfuck of officiating.

Play of the night. The amazing save by Elliott on the cannon shot from I don;t rememvber who.

shabbs wrote:A perfect evening... Sens win, Elliott gets a shutout, Habs and Leafs lose! YAHOO!!!

More importantly, ATL loses as well.

That was an intense game. Whew...

I haven't read the posts yet, but what in that name of Diddle was that call on Ruutu for? 5 minutes for a shoulder check? I must say, I give the Ottawa fans credit for being loud about that being complete and utter BS. Then the non-call on the nerd who clearly interfered with Karlsson. Wow, unreal how blatantly blind and/or dumb that ref was.

He called some Buffalo guy for touching Michalek's stick right after that because he knew he was so Diddling dumb.

The only thing the ref did right all night was get in the way of a clear so Kovalev would get set up in the slot (for all that was worth).

Also, Kovalev NEEDS desperately to learn when to get the Diddle off the ice. Almost cost us a goal at the end and possibly the game.

On the plus side - go Elliott!!! Way to shut the critics up with a strong performance. And...I'm not sure who picked the stars on the Team (we bolted when the horn sounded), but Winchester over Alfie? Let's get one thing straight here, Winchester was great, but Alfie was the rock that held us together in that game.

Miller was incredible, but that goes without saying.

Great win! Very happy times.