GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ New York Rangers - 7:00pm ET - Thu. Jan. 14th, 2010

The Ottawa Senators (22-21-4, 48 points, barely in 3rd in the Northeast) continue their road trip from hell and pay a visit to the New York Rangers (22-17-7, 51 points, 3rd in the Atlantic) on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The Sens have lost five in a row and were beaten pretty handily by the Thrashers on Tuesday night. This is a new low point for the Sens this year with all the injuries and lack of confidence. The Rangers have three wins and three losses in January so hopefully the Sens can catch them snoozing. This road trip has the makings of an 0-5 record and that's not a good thing. Alfie is still a ways out before coming back so they're going to have to grind this out with the current roster for the rest of the trip. Hopefully we can get some bounces in New York and maybe lady luck will give us a wink. Or perhaps Lundqvist will forget how to stop a puck... dare to dream. GO SENS GO!!!

Game Coverage:
- TV: SNET-E, MSG (HD)
- Radio: Team 1200
- Web: check http://www.atdhe.net and http://www.justin.tv

Latest updates:
- Brodeur to start for the Sens tonight
- Leclaire injured in practice today, will not go tonight
- Mike Brodeur called up, Elliott has the flu... Brodeur likely to start
- Kuba skated today but will not play tonight
- Daugavins called up, M. St. Pierre sent back down: http://senators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=513487
- The Sens have fired goalie coach Eli Wilson on Wednesday: http://twitter.com/NHL_Sens/status/7715700521

Team Lineups:
Ottawa Senators: http://www.dailyfaceoff.com/team-lineups/ottawa-senators-team-lineup
New York Rangers: http://www.dailyfaceoff.com/team-lineups/new-york-rangers-team-lineup

TSN's Ice Chips:

Source: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=11009

Ottawa Senators:

Lines at skate on game day:

Shannon - Regin - Kovalev
Foligno - Fisher - Neil
Ruutu - Kelly - Cheechoo
Daugavins - Smith - Donovan

Projected lines vs the Rangers:

Forwards:
Shannon - Regin - Kovalev
Foligno - Fisher - Neil
Ruutu - Kelly - Cheechoo
Daugavins - Smith - Donovan

Defencemen:
Phillips - Volchenkov
Campoli - Karlsson
Picard - Carkner

Goaltenders:
Brodeur
Elliott

Healthy scratches:
- none

Injuries:
- Jason Spezza (torn right MCL, out 6-8 weeks)
- Daniel Alfredsson (separated left shoulder, expected to miss 4-6 weeks)
- Milan Michalek (upper body injury, out indefinitely, will miss Saturday's game vs the Panthers)
- Jesse Winchester (knee, out a month)
- Filip Kuba (upper body injury, day to day, questionable for the Rangers game)
- Pascal Leclaire (took a puck on the skate in practice on game day, no go for tonight)

New York Rangers:

Projected lineup vs the Sens:

Forwards:
Prospal - Christiensen - Gaborik
Dubinsky - Drury - Callahan
Avery - Anisimov - Higgins
Voros - Boyle - Kotalik

Defencemen:
Staal - Rozsival
Del Zotto - Girardi
Redden - Gilroy

Goaltenders:
Lundqvist
Johnson

Injuries:
- none

Game Day Previews:

OttawaSenators.com Game Day Preview:

Source: will post when it is available...

NHL.com Game Day Preview:

Source: will post when it is available...

Sportsnet.ca Game Day Preview:

Source: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/scores/20100114/Ott@NYR/story

ESPN Game Day Preview:

Source: http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/preview?gameId=300114013

ESPN Stats Comparison:



Media Links:
- Sens recall Brodeur from Bingo: http://senators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=513585
- Clouston post-skate presser from Thursday: http://bit.ly/6wPRoz
- Clouston media availability from Wednesday: http://bit.ly/5NbmbS
- Sens fire goalie coach Eli Wilson: http://senators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=513454
- Clouston's post-game presser from Tuesday night: http://bit.ly/53ifSx
- SensTV On-line: http://senators.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp
- Official Twitter of the Ottawa Senators: http://twitter.com/NHL_Sens

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GO SENS GO!!!

This will be the Sens first game in the post-Eli Wilson era. Let's start it off with a WIN!!!!

GO SENS GO!!!

Why do the Rangers have so many goals against?

SpezDispenser wrote:Why do the Rangers have so many goals against?

Wade Redden.

SpezDispenser wrote:Why do the Rangers have so many goals against?

The Wayner?

Clouston speaks to the media today from the hotel in NY:

http://bit.ly/5NbmbS

shabbs wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Why do the Rangers have so many goals against?

Wade Redden.

Fair enough.

Sens will still lose but perhaps by not quite as embarrassing a margin this time?

Oh and don't forget Carvel sucks. How does he still have a job.

It worked for getting Eli out of here in the last GDT so lets see if we can get it to work again.

Anyone see the Rags game last night? That was a goaltending show-down for the ages.

96 combined shots for the teams, no goals. It took extra innings in the shoot-out for the Devils to win. And Redden was playing, too.

So don't get your hopes up for an offensive outburst.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Sens will still lose but perhaps by not quite as embarrassing a margin this time?

As I wrote in the Atlanta thread, I don't mind losing so much as being beaten badly by a Dung team. No reason for that.

i dont even have hopes anymore

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Oh and don't forget Carvel sucks. How does he still have a job.

It worked for getting Eli out of here in the last GDT so lets see if we can get it to work again.

Is it Carvel's idea to have our underachieving forwards be rewarded with easy minutes on the point?

asq2 wrote:Anyone see the Rags game last night? That was a goaltending show-down for the ages.

96 combined shots for the teams, no goals. It took extra innings in the shoot-out for the Devils to win. And Redden was playing, too.

So don't get your hopes up for an offensive outburst.

Maybe Hank's tired?

SeawaySensFan wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Oh and don't forget Carvel sucks. How does he still have a job.

It worked for getting Eli out of here in the last GDT so lets see if we can get it to work again.

Is it Carvel's idea to have our underachieving forwards be rewarded with easy minutes on the point?

No that was Eli's fault