GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Buffalo Sabres - 7:00pm ET - Fri. Apr. 5th, 2013

Ian Mendes ‏@ian_mendes
You think this is a good weekend to start Craig Anderson? He's 5-0-0 in last 5 starts vs BUF. And he's 8-0-0 in last 8 starts vs FLA.

Probably safe to say Andy starts

Hoags wrote:Ian Mendes ‏@ian_mendes
You think this is a good weekend to start Craig Anderson? He's 5-0-0 in last 5 starts vs BUF. And he's 8-0-0 in last 8 starts vs FLA.

Heh.

Ian Mendes‏@ian_mendes

Mike Hoffman won't be able to play tonight. The hope is his injury isn't too serious.

Miller confirmed to start for the Sabres.

https://twitter.com/BuffaloSabres/statuses/320181195537264641

So essentially Conacher replaces Hoffman.

wprager wrote:So essentially Conacher replaces Hoffman.

Very comparable players. Both in the Shannon / Gerbe mould.

Must win game tonight, teams below are starting to catch up.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:So essentially Conacher replaces Hoffman.

Very comparable players. Both in the St-Louis / Gionta mould.

Fixed

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:So essentially Conacher replaces Hoffman.

Very comparable players. Both in the Shannon / Gerbe mould.

BLARRRRRGHL......I think Conacher is more Muggsy Bogues than anyone else.

Vanek out for tonight. Confirmed.

https://twitter.com/BuffaloSabres/status/320190793350512641

Hoags wrote:Must win game tonight, teams below are starting to catch up.

Not really. Some have caught up on the number of games played, but at this point are 5 up on the 9th place team with a game-in-hand; no-one chasing us has any games-in-hand on us; over the last 10 games we have 13 points and the only teams with more than that are the Penguins and Capitals -- those teams will be in the top-three and we don't care about them.

Over the last few weeks, pretty much every time I checked the points in the last 10, we were not giving up any ground on the teams behind us. The gaps changed, for sure, as certain teams played more (or fewer) games than we did, but like I said above, that's all over now -- we've got 12 games remaining, and no-one behind us has more.

They say the cut off will be 52-54 points. We've got 12 games remaining to get to 10 points. It's not a magic number or anything yet, but it's going to be pretty close. We have 13 points over the last 10 games. And we've added Conacher and Anderson.

shabbs wrote:

Did you buy that or is this seen in a store? And if so, a store in Toronto?

Looks like it's still Lehner time.

That Conacher jersey pic is from the Sens Twitter feed.

Lehner in the starter's net today... suggesting he goes... we'll have to wait for PMac to confirm...

Ah, got it.

Checking league-wide, only 5 teams in the entire league got more than 13 points in the last 10 games. During the last 10 we've played Boston twice, Montreal, Toronto. So, not to say that the playoffs are a done deal, but it would take a monumental reversal to not get 9-10 points over the remaining 12 games.