GAME DAY: L.A. Kings @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm ET - MON. Nov. 22, 2010

The Ottawa Senators (9-10-1, 19pts) host the Los Angeles Kings (13-6-0, 26pts). The Sens are coming off another lopsided loss to the St. Louis Blues Friday and look to get their collective minds back on the game of hockey. It seemed pretty clear that the death of Daron Richardson weighed heavily on the team as they made mental error after mental error in a losing streak of 5-1, 7-1 and 5-2. LA on the other hand, despite having a 13-6-0 record, have lost 3 of their last 4 and are coming off a shoot out win that saw the Bruins out shoot the Kings 41 to 26.

The Kings road record of 5-5-0 should give the Sens a ray of hope and perhaps the Kings are in for a bit of a down slope at just the right time? Clouston has shuffled the deck and left no forward line untouched as you will see in the latest updates. Hopefully this will kick start Alfie, Michalek and Fisher. I also like that CC has formed a true grinding fourth line and is trying to get back the FFS magic to spark this team. Kelly on the first line is decent for short periods which should be just enough to get the Sens back on track. I have no expectations this game with the level of competition we'll be facing but a hard fought game and perhaps a point would be nice. One thing's for sure; this will be an entertaining and hard fought game as Ottawa and LA seem to play each other like hated division rivals whenever the Kings come to town.

Written by: Cap'n Clutch

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Latest updates:
Erik Karlsson is suffering from the Flu and is questionable for tonights game. David Hale would get the call if Karlsson isn't healthy enough to play.

Clouston is shuffling lines:
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2010/11/21/16252126.html

Trying to find the way out of the fog, coach Cory Clouston has done some juggling of his own. Line combinations for Monday’s game will be completely different, as no one unit will go unaffected.

Kelly has moved to left wing, alongside Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson. Peter Regin has been shifted back to centre, where he’ll work between Milan Michalek and Alex Kovalev.

Mike Fisher is in the middle of Nick Foligno and Ryan Shannon, while Jarkko Ruutu and Chris Neil are on either side of Jesse Winchester.

TSN's Ice Chips:

Source for OTTAWA: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/icechips/?hubname=nhl-senators
Source for LOS ANGELES: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/icechips/?hubname=nhl-kings

Key Injuries

Ottawa Senators:
Brian Lee (Neck - day to day)
Erik Karlsson (Flu - Questionable)

Los Angeles Kings:
Willie Mitchell (upper body)

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Kelly on the top line, Fisher on the third, Regin at center, Alfie with Spezza. Not sure about Kelly, but we've been asking about the other moves. Sort-of. We *did* want Regin to replace Fisher as the 2nd line center, but for Fisher to sit. Third line (reduced minutes) is close enough, I guess.

Karlsson doubtful with the flu.

Why is everything in bold?

I was wondering that myself. Did I do something or was that you prages?

SpezDispenser wrote:Senators defenceman Erik Karlsson is sick with something that, according to coach Cory Clouston, has been “making its way through the team.”

He means cold and flu symptoms, not the plummeting plus-minus rating that has reached nauseating proportions.

Hence, Karlsson’s participation in Monday’s game against the visiting Kings is in doubt. If he can’t go, David Hale will make his return to the lineup.

That is in the latest updates and also in the Ottawa injuries. Thanks for the further details though.

Bolding issue fixed. That is very weird how a topic post can affect all posts after it.

Perhaps prages can explain?

SpezDispenser wrote:Why is everything in bold?

You too? It was like for a while -- I thought I had scaled the font or something. Seems to be back to normal.

Wish me luck -- I'm about to bike in to work and I still have some freezing rain leftover in the driveway. I usually like to ride on the sidewalks but they might be as bad as my driveway right now.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Bolding issue fixed. That is very weird how a topic post can affect all posts after it.

Perhaps prages can explain?

No, I can't. But I'll try

I was editing the post with WYSIWYG on and the bottom part of my post was bolded. I turned off WYWIWYG to find the errant tag, but could not spot it. I did a "Preview" and the bolded paragraph at the bottom was back to normal, so I figured everything was fine.

Something somewhere had a missing end bold tag and the "system" didn't catch it.

wprager wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Bolding issue fixed. That is very weird how a topic post can affect all posts after it.

Perhaps prages can explain?

No, I can't. But I'll try

I was editing the post with WYSIWYG on and the bottom part of my post was bolded. I turned off WYWIWYG to find the errant tag, but could not spot it. I did a "Preview" and the bolded paragraph at the bottom was back to normal, so I figured everything was fine.

Something somewhere had a missing end bold tag and the "system" didn't catch it.

I found the bold tag and removed it. I just thought it was weird that the extra tag would have anything to do with subsequent posts.

Jon Quick expected to start as per SNet.ca.

I'm gonna say the Sens pull it together and Karlsson's "Flu" is just a little too much for him to play tonight and Hale will draw back in. I think it's the perfect opportunity to give Karlsson a seat in the press box. He's been taking a lot of penalties lately so a game or two off could do him some good. Get healthy, blame the bad play on flu symptoms if that helps and then come back better for the experience.

Karlsson out tonight, Hale in (confirmed)

Leclaire starts tonight!

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