Anderson makes 36 saves as Senators beat Sharks 4-1

With so many shots on goal by the Sharks, and our current record against SJ, I thought this game was going to be a loss. Turns out I was wrong, thankfully!

I liked that the Sens remained focused out there after a pretty rough first period, and came back to life. Every game the Sens play is nerve-wracking, but we always pull out of the fire somehow (knock on wood).

I liked Greening and his productivity this game, and Turris is showing everybody how he can contribute from these past couple of games. Everything is moving into place slowly, but surely :)

I went to the game, and it was fabulous! I was really worried in the first period – it could easily have been 3-0 Sharks within 10 minutes. Hooray for Andie! The Sharks rarely give up, but they did by the end. They were barely playing during the kill for Pavelski’s second penalty. The Sens knocked the wind out of a pretty die-hard team. Great job, guys!

I want to know how you all chat during games on this site. I upgraded my phone to an android, and would like to partake on the pro sens discussions. I am living korea and hockey fans are few and far between and the ones here don’t have the time in the mornings to watch games as I do. so would someone puh-lease help out a fellow sens army follower and get me “jacked”

This is beginning to feel like a speeding car with no brakes, with the Paulrus driving – and somehow he’s steering us through the tough bits – but it’s still inexplicable how we haven’t crashed yet.

We could win all the intervening games and I’d still feel like we’re limping into the All-Star break, and I’ll be glad the boys are going to get a chance to rest and reset (with the exception of Crain Anderson, who should be sent down to Bingo and played every game to keep him in the zone.

we have certainly been outplayed alot these days.

Anderson got bailed out alot by the skaters previously, but he is carrying them all right now, and for the past few weeks.

Hopefully Smith and Daugavins do not miss too much time. Big blow to our PK; used to think Smith was a poor man’s Kelly but looks like the guy will be your prototype 3rd line center…..heck, his offense may challenge the early career of Fisher……

Hopefully Petersson, Butler step up, though neither will likely help the kill. Maybe call up a D oriented fwd? Jim O’Brien?

Watched the game last night and to me it looked like he was out before he hit the ice. Very scary kind of hit. No doubt some whiplash type of injury as well. I think it was a complete accident tho, and just hope to heck he can come back soon and pick up where he left off cause I think he is actually become very important for this team.

I was watching the Toronto game the other day, and I couldn’t help thinking that a lot of Anderson’s improvement seemed to be coming from him showing a lot of confidence in the D. Now you can say all you want about us being outshot and outchanced, but the confidence seemed to be well placed. On almost every significant play, Anderson hugely challenged the shooter. Sometimes it seemed like he was 5 feet out of his crease. And every time he did this, the Senators D very effectively took away all the passing lanes, and quickly cleared any rebounds after the shot was taken (not necessarily cleared out, but got it to the corner, which gave Andy enough time to get back to the net before his next major shooter challenge a few moments later). At the beginning of the year, Andy wasn’t playing like that, and for good reasons. The D weren’t clearing those rebounds or taking those passing lanes, and had Andy been that far out of his crease, he would have been consistently burned for it.

Bear in mind when I say this that I did not watch the San Jose game, but rather caught it on the Team1200’s webcast, so maybe his play in that game was different than the other night in Toronto.

…suggests that Ottawa will play Washington in the first round. I can’t see Ottawa finishing above Pittsburgh or Philly, and they have a reasonable cushion over the other teams (assuming they don’t crash in these last few months). That would put them at 6th.

I could live with that.

I love him already. He absolutely crushed… someone (I can’t watch the replay to see who it was). It was literally the first thing I saw. I came home from soccer, turned on the TV, flipped over the SN and BAM, there was the BoroCop slamming someone down behind our net around the halfway mark of the 1st. How can I not love that?

DECEMBER 1ST!

And we’re 0.818 on the road since that game, with 7 wins and 4 OT/SO losses.

“We’re going to evaluate Zack Smith,” MacLean said. “We kept him out for precaution. Kaspars is hurting, but he’s from Latvia, he’ll probably be alright. Tough guy.”

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