Silver Nuggets: Senators back to second last; Lehner begins hunt
The Ottawa Senators helped out their draft position with a 4-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. Coupled with an Avalanche win, the Senators returned to 29th place. Gabriel, here we come!
Also, it maybe just a few days after the March Equinox, or "spring" for you folksy types, but we have a good 5 centimetres of snow here. According to my Ottawa source (Peter), there was no snow in Ottawa today. So today's non-hockey topic of the day is, what is your favourite season? In keeping with my contrarian ways, I don't mind winter, in fact, I just might even like it. I don't enjoy -25C, but I'll take it over a disgusting day at 43C with the humidex!
My favourite season is autumn, when I have just gotten over the filth pool that is summer. So my rankings are 1) Autumn/Fall 2) Spring 3) Winter 4) Summer. My ideal day is about 18 degrees with a nice breeze, and then walking by the waterfront near Lake Ontario. What is your ideal day?
But if you insist on talking hockey, I'll throw you a couple links. Beware, it's a slow news day though.
Last game
- Game recap. (Citizen, Sun)
- Stats from last night via NHL.com (Boxscore, Game summary, Event Summary, Faceoff Report, Play by Play, Ice time and shifts, Shot summary)
- Post game reaction from Cory Clouston, Curtis McElhinney and Chris Neil. (Ottawa Senators)
More after the jump.
General Sens News
- Craig Anderson should be good to go tomorrow night. (Ian Mendes)
- I posted this in the comments yesterday, but as I am a little short for news today, I will post it for more attention. Here is Robin Lehner discussing the Anderson extension. (Joy Lindsay)
- Patrick Wiercioch was nervous before his NHL debut. Meanwhile, Paul Maurice feels the Senators have already mourned their season. (Sun)
- The latest edition of the Digital Faceoff at the Ottawa Sun is in favour of the Anderson extension. (Sun)
- The Senators rested their three stars at practice today. The three being Erik Karlsson, Jason Spezza and Marek Svatos. (Ian Mendes)
General Hockey News
- Matt Duchene (also known as the guy Ryan loves like I love Erik Karlsson) led the Avalanche to a win that helped us greatly! Also Brian Elliott did stuff in the shootout. (Yahoo!)
- Lastly, the HBO 24/7 series received Emmy nominations. (Emmy)
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