GAME DAY - Ottawa Senators @ Philadelphia Flyers, Saturday, Mar. 31, 2012, 1:00 PM EST

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Who:Ottawa Senators @ Philadelphia Flyers
When: Saturday, Mar. 31, 2012, 1:00 PM EST
Where: CBC, NHLN

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The Story:

The Flyers lead the season series 2-1.

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Ottawa (39-28-10)

Ottawa is 2nd in the Northeast (7th in the Eastern Conference) with 88 in 77. The Sens are 19-13-6 on the road this season. Over their last 10 games they are 5-3-2.

Ottawa is coming off of a 6-4 win over the Jets on Monday extending their win streak to 2 games.

Team Leaders:

Goals: Milan Michalek [34]
Assists: Erik Karlsson [57]
Points: Jason Spezza [81]
PIMs: Zenon Kenopka [193]
+/-: Flip Kuba [29]

Player(s)-to-Watch:

Going to need Erik Karlsson to continue to provide offence from the back end, and for Spezza, Michalek, and Alfredsson to provide offence upfront.

Starting Line-up:

Colin Greening - Jason Spezza - Milan Michalek
Nick Foligno - Kyle Turris - Daniel Alfredsson
Rob Klinkhammer - Jim O'Brien - Chris Neil
Kaspars Daugavins - Zack Smith - Erik Condra

Filip Kuba - Erik Karlsson
Jared Cowen - Sergei Gonchar
Chris Phillips - Matt Carkner

Craig Anderson
Ben Bishop

Injuries:

Peter Regin
Jesse Winchester

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Philadelphia (45-24-8)

The Flyers are 5th in the East (3rd in the Atlantic) with 98 points in 77 games. They are 21-12-5 at home this season. They have gone 6-3-1 in their last 10 games.

The Flyers beat up on the lowly Leafs last night with a 7-1 drubbing.

Rookie Matt Read leads all rookies in goal scoring with 23 and ranks 4th in points with 46. Sean Couturier ranks 10th in scoring for rookies with 25 points.

Team Leaders:

Goals: Scott Hartnell [36]
Assists: Claude Giroux [59]
Points: Claude Giroux [86]
PIMs: Zac Rinaldo [202]
+/-: Scott Hartnell [21]

Player(s)-to-Watch:

As always, Claude Giroux is a talented young player and leads his team in points and assists. Watch for him to try and pick apart Ottawa's defence and try to find leading scorer Scott Hartnel.

Starting Line-up:

Scott Hartnel - Claude Giroux - Jaromir Jagr
Danny Briere - Brayden Schenn - Wayne Simmonds
Matt Read - Eric Wellwood - Jakub Voracek
Zac Rinaldo - Sean Couturier - Max Talbot

Marc-Andre Bourdon - Matt Carle
Braydon Coburn - Nicklas Grossmann
Erik Gustafsson - Pavel Kubina

Bryzgalov
Babrovsky

Injuries:

Henrik Tallinder
Travis Zajac

No half way about this one.... JUST WIN.

A healthy Flyers team is the one team that the Sens can't beat. Thankfully, they aren't healthy

Marc-Andre Bourdon - Matt Carle
Braydon Coburn - Nicklas Grossmann
Erik Gustafsson - Pavel Kubina

I can't believe that's their D. I know it is and has been, but wow is it different than it could have been with Mez, Pronger, and Timmonen. If they still picked up Grossman

Pronger-Carle
Timmonen-Grossman
Coburn-Mez

would be pretty fantastic!

Isn't the season series 1-1-1?

Edit: and it's Bobrovsky.

Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

shabbs wrote:Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

So was his foot broken or was it not? Maybe we should just make sure and brake it better.

The seriousness of this game can't be underestimated... right Spezza?

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

So was his foot broken or was it not? Maybe we should just make sure and brake it better.

They called it a chip fracture...

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/7744401/ilya-bryzgalov-philadelphia-flyers-chip-fracture-foot

Not sure if they did anything for it.

Flyers play Sat and Sun... so "returning this weekend" could be either of those games.

wprager wrote:Isn't the season series 1-1-1?

Edit: and it's Bobrovsky.

Nope, as Yahoo said: Sens trail 2-1. But of course you are separating losses and overtime loses, when it is just easier to say they have won 1 and lost 2, instead of saying won 1, lost 1, and lost 1 in overtime.

October 18: 7-2 Loss @ Ottawa
January 7: 3-2 OTL @ Philadelphia
January 8: 6-4 Win @ Ottawa

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

So was his foot broken or was it not? Maybe we should just make sure and brake it better.

you mean *break*

LOL the irony... sorry to nitpick, but because it's you, it is ironic haha

Riprock wrote:

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

So was his foot broken or was it not? Maybe we should just make sure and brake it better.

you mean *break*

LOL the irony... sorry to nitpick, but because it's you, it is ironic haha

Heh heh.

winwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwinwin

shabbs wrote:Bryz should be back in net for the Flyers.

Wow, really...drive the net hard, make him work.

shabbs wrote:The seriousness of this game can't be underestimated... right Spezza?

He seems to be saying "Right, shabbs."