Silver Nuggets: Gonchar returns to Pittsburgh

3rd start in a row for Johnson, if he gets it.

(Not to mention all 3 games in a stretch of 4 days….for a vet goalie with a long history of groin/hip injuries)

Not that I’m nervous or anything…..

Now I don’t have to decide whether to start Fleury in one of my leagues tonight. I hate starting goalies against the Sens. :/

It’s a pretty good show of confidence when you do that. Hopefully it doesn’t backfire too often, but he does seem to do it most of the time.

Enjoy the game tonight. I’ll be watching it (or most of it) at one of Ottawa’s many Royal Oak pubs.

I saw the story after I’d posted Nuggets. I loved these ones about Lehner:

7. Senators rookie Robin Lehner made an emergency appearance Saturday night because Brian Elliott’s skate broke on the way to the ice for the start of the third period. I asked him what went through his mind when the coaches started calling for him. His reply? “The first thing I thought was: (Bleep).”

8. Lehner looked good – making one particularly good save – the night after giving up seven goals against AHL Hershey. He said that it’s actually easier to play in the NHL, because the players make fewer mistakes and the systems are more airtight. Said one member of the Senators organization, “He’s not wrong. And he’s not lacking for confidence.”

And this one about Redden and Martin was pretty good, too:

15. Redden told a beauty about Jacques Martin: back when the Senators still flew commercial, they won a game in Florida on a Thursday night. Since they couldn’t leave until the next day, they went out and celebrated. Martin stood on a second-floor balcony, seething as everyone came back at a ridiculous hour. Next day, he tore into them, saying, “You better beat Montreal tomorrow.” They did: 5-1. When I asked Martin about it, he just stood there with a huge smile.