Pens and Sens: Live Analysis - Ottawa 4; Pittsburgh 3 (SO)

I thought I'd try my hand at a little in-game analysis, as I tire of my traditional post-game format. The idea didn't come to me until just now and I thus have not done any advertising beforehand, so I don't expect anybody to read it, meaning this is really just a half-baked, fruitless exercise. Nevertheless:

Sens Win. The team is now 36-6-2 when Chris Phillips scores a goal. CBC gives 3 Star Honours to
1) Fleury
2) Phillips
3) Tyler Kennedy.

Phillips really did have a great game, and really earned the accolades.

Given that the Pens were 9-1-1 coming into this one and that they trailed by 2 goals, the Senators can really take pride in this victory.

SENS WIN SHOOTOUT 2-1!

Comrie - SCORES Drags to the glove side, fires it off Fleur's pad and in.

Kunitz - Backhands it over the net

Fisher - Tries to squeeze five hole, Fleury shuts door

Malkin - Stopped low glove side by Elliott's pad

EXTRA SHOOTERS

Ruutu - Stopped blocker side.

Crosby - SCORES Five hole on Elliott

Sykora - Backhand gloveside, gloved by Elliott
Alfredsson - SCORES Out-waits poke check, scored high backhand

Letang- High glove, stopped by Elliott

Shootout

Ottawa: Alfie, Spezza, Ruutu

Pittsburgh: Letang, Crosby, Sykora

End of Overtime.

Wow. That was an exciting 5 minutes. Both teams had quality chances, and it looked like the sens were poised to use their momentum to end it.

1:05 Spezza breaks free on the counter attack. Takes a shot to the head going to the net, curls back but can't find a pass.

1:15 2-on1 For Crosby and Malkin, but Elliott stops a high Malkin snapper.

2:00 Fisher gets two chances in front, puck pops out to Lee but Fleury knocks it over the glass.

3:50 Alfie and Comrie both get chances, but Fleury is there.

4:30 Great pass cross crease hits Heatley in the feet, can't covert.

End 3rd Period

0:07 Gonchar accidentally hauls down dany Heatley. 2 for tripping, Ottawa will get a 1;53 4-on-3 powerplay in OT.

0:45 Foligno and Kelly go 2-on-2 with two Pens defenders, but nothing doing.

2:20 Comrie fools Fleury, Fleury over-commits to his right, Comrie shoots left, but Fleury outstretches his left pad and gets some material on it.

4:18 Sykora beats elliott short-side with a slapshot from the right face-off circle, but rings it off the crossbar and out of play

4:36 Fleury stops Daniel Alfredsson on a Senators' 4-on-2 rush.

6:06 Sens Score! 3-3! Heatley's shot produces a weird rebound, Phillips follows up the rush and taps in the rebound. Phillips has jumped into the rush a few times today, and had a chance in the first as a result. He's had a good game. he now has 6 goals this year, and 200 points for his career.

7:40 Ottawa Scores, 3-2 Pens. Foligno rips a shot short-side past Fleury, through traffic. Foligno now has 14 on the season.

8:45 Dean, Gary, and Cassie Campbell just finished singing the praises of Sidney Crosby's autograph signing prowess. Prediction: I feel Staal and Kunitz have been Pittsburgh's best forwards, but Crosby will get first start, because the CBC desperately wants to market a Canadian as the world's premiere hockey talent. I remain unconvinced. Ovechkin is clearly better.

11:13 Elliott stops a high wrister from Kris Letang and swallows up the rebound with two men in blue sweaters on the doorstep. other than the bad first goal, Elliott has been solid.

13:10 Kunitz misses the net on a good chance. The man has had himself a game.

13:54 Anton Volchenkov has a lower-body injuury, will not return. if this is serious, that means the club is now missing Volchenkov, Picard, and Smith for extended periods of time. Will we see Mattia Karlsson in the NHL before the season's out?

15:00 Fleury's penalty ends, 3-minute powerplay for Pittsburgh. Ottawa has been sluggish on the PK. This could be the final nail into the coffin.

16:00 Gonchar takes a high stick right in front of his net, goes down in a heap, and is VERY slow to get up. Substantial blood loss, possible missing teeth. Heatley is the culprit, will serve 4 for high sticking. Ottawa's powerplay is over.

17:00 Fleury stops a Comrie shot. Neil stops in front of Fleury, and Fleury gives him the blocker in the back of his recently-injured leg. Brouhaha ensues. Fleury gets the only penalty, Ottawa gets their 6th chance on the man advantage.

17:33 Powerplay over. Bad angle shot (gloved down by Fleury) from Alfredsson that was likely too high to hit the net was Ottawa's best chance

19:02 Gonchar gets a chincey hooking penalty for laying his stick on Ryan Shannon. Penguins spend the first 30 seconds of the powerplay dumping the puck into the Sens' end.

Start Thrid Period.

Intermission Notes:

The CBC is running a nice feature on Brian Kilrea. Some fun Kilrea facts:

• Apparently Kilrea was a restaurant manager when he was hired as the coach of your Ottawa 67s.


• The 67s have only missed the playoffs once in Kilrea's 34 seasons behind the bench.


• Considers the hilights of his career in order: 1) Being inducted into the HHOF 2) Winning the Memorial Cup coaching his hometown team, in his own barn.


• Killer is an Anne Murray fan...

End 2nd. Tough frame for the Sens. They gave up two goals and, despite having a couple powerplays, were outclassed by the Pens when it came to the man advantage. Shots: 11-10 Pittsburgh.

1:34 3-1 Pens. Campoli turns the puck over, creating a Penguins 2-on-1. Matt Cooke feeds Tyler Kennedy, ol' Pig Nose goes roof daddy on the cross-crease pass.

3:43 Elliott stops a rolling Guerin shot from the slot. Once again, no rebound.

4:10 Jesse Winchester hooks Jordan Staal. Receives the aptly named hooking minor.

6:00 Elliott then stops Kris Letang point blank, allows no rebound. Strong. Cassie Campbell mentions that Maxime Talbot and Tyler Kennedy have had luck scoring after spitting on their stick blades. dean mentions that it's a known statistical fact that the Penguins are "the top saliva team in the league." Classic Dean humour.

6:40 Elliott stops Tyler Kenedy and Jordan Staal on a 2-on-1. 3-on-2 for Ottawa ensues, Heatley fires the puck wide.

7:25 I've always wondered: How, exactly, did Cotton Eye Joe inhibit that guy from getting married way back when?

8:20 Dean and Gary discuss Penguins coach Dan Bylsma's nickname - "Disco Dan." Galley does not reveal its origins, but I sense it sprouts from some combination of a bad moustache, a perm, and plaid pants.

8:50 Kunitz has been busy. He hits Kelly from behind. Phillips comes to Kelly's dence, then Crosby gets involved. He presumably plans to whine at such a high pitch as to puncture Phillip's ear drums, removing him from play.

9:10 Kunitz fans on a one timer off a Crosby pass, then redirects a Gonchar shot.

10:00 Comrie gets sent off for elbowing during the scramble.

10:30 Jordan Staal's line whack at a loose puck in the slot in front of Brian elliot. Dean bust out a "scraaambllle".

10:55 Comrie gets a hot on goal as Ottawa's powerplay ends with a whimper.

13:00 Sens back on the powerplay. Fedetenko for high-sticking. Was too busy fuming about Crosby's smile to notice waht happened.

14:04 2-1 Pittsburgh. Crosby converts on a cross crease pass from Mark Eaton, putting the puck into a half empty net. I hate his pre-pubescent goal triumph smile almost as much as I hate Mats Sundin's stupid celebratory mouthguard smile. If you are a true Leaf hater, you know what I'm talking about.

14:35 The Sens pepper Fleury with chances with some sustained pressure, but Maxime "Superstar" Talbot eases the pressure with the clearance.

16: 15 Pascale Dupuis takes his second penalty of the afternoon, tripping Brian Lee behind Ottawa's net. I'm sure Dan Bylsma is thrilled.

17:20 Neil throws a hit on Mark Eaton, but then gets hit from behind into the boards by Evgeni Malkin and is slow to get up. He Looks OK though

17:50 Elliott swallows up a Peter Sykora slap shot.

19:00 CBC just showed a shot of Fleury thanking his goal posts. Ottawa hit them three times during the first, so I understand that Fleury was feeling relieved, but I always caution against reliance and/or outward display of affection towards inanimate objects.

Start 2nd Period

Intermission Highlights:

Anonymous Commentor: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ should have a stream up and running. Let me know if you can't get it to work and I'll see what I can find for you.

Ron Maclean, PJ Stock and Kelly Hrudey are engaged in the kind of highly refined intellectual discourse we've come to expect from them. Stock may be one of the few people currently on Television who has worse mastery of the English language than Gary Galley. In his defence, Galley is an excellent colour commentator who clearly knows a lot about the game, but struggles in expressing his views.

Stock, however, cannot keep pace with the intermission highlight package he reads every week due to his painful bumbling delivery. He also just argued that a reverse on the breakout, clearly shown by Ron and Kelly, was not a reverse. Ron and Kelly scolded him.

End 1st. Exciting first period. it looked like the Penguins were going to throttle the Senators early on, but Ottawa bounced back. Shots: 9-7 Pittsburgh.

2:00 Gary Galley analyzes the powerplay that was, and makes absolutely no sense. "The posts are the goaltender's best friend, but he might have used them all up there!" "The Senators made some nice seams and creating some perimeter." Excuse me?

3:06 Maligned defenceman Filip Kuba breaks up a shorthanded 2-on-1

3:50 Alfie hits the post. Puck bounes out, Sens recover, the Heatley hits it.

4:15 Spezza shoots wide on an opportunity. He should totally be traded.

4:28 Dupuis knocks Foligno down away from the puck. 5-on-3 Ottawa.

5:40 Kunitz trips Nick Foligno as Foligno crosses the Pittsburgh blue-line. 2 for Tripping, Sens Powerplay.

6:20 Rob Scuderi dives on his belly to break up a Pizza-line rush. Nice play by the Alfie, Heatley, and Spezza are off to a good start in this one.

8:31 Heatley rips a one-timer but Fleury gets a pad on it. Dean gets excited.

11:12 Sens Score, 1-1. Chris Campoli sends a seeing eye shot from the point past Fleury. Right off the draw inside the Pens' end, reinforcing the underrated importance of face-offs. The goal gives Campoli 8 points in his first 11 games as a Senator.

13:20 Good chance for Comrie on the breakaway. Looked like Fleury caught it with his mask.

14:00 Pens Score, 1-0 Pitt. You know you've surrendered a bad goal when: 1) It's scored by Eric Goddard. 2) It's scored from behind the net.

The Daily Wrap Up - Friday March 13, 2009

The Senators lost a thrilling endeavor last night 5-3 against the Boston Bruins. What really surprised me was the fact that Corey Clouston did the right thing in keeping Peter Regin in the lineup when Chris Neil returned. The only problem was that as a result someone else had to come out, and Shean Donovan was that man.

Canoe.ca - Chris Neil returned to action last night and got into a fight, proving he is needed in the lineup (ha!)

The rugged right winger, who has missed the last 15 games with a lacerated calf, will play on the fourth line as Ottawa attempts to extend its winning streak to five games against the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins.

It really grind my gears when people claim that because Chris Neil fought yesterday, he just showed how valuable an asset he is to the team. Those fights prove nothing and don't send any messages, as it was between two heavyweights who only get to show their fighting skills against one another. We have plenty of players will throw down to defend a teammate (which is really the only reason to), and if Chris Neil wasn't playing last night, there would not have been a fight, and the game would have not changed by a whole heck of a lot.

Live Stream Ottawa Senators vs.Boston Bruins March 12, 2009

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The Jesus Fish Performs OT Miracle: Ottawa 3; Tampa Bay 2 (OT)

Mike Fisher saved... the Senators' bacon with an overtime goal, as the Sens defeated the Tampba Bay Lightning to win their fourth straight last night. The Sens, by their own admission, did not play their best game, but it was enough to defeat the league's second most dysfunctional former cup winning franchise (the first being Rick "My Contract Will Age More Than Cheap Scotch and Leave a Similar Taste in the Mouths of Those Who Have to Taste It" DiPietro and the New York Islanders.)

Fisher had an all-around strong game, earning first-star honours. The former Sudbury Wolf was at his multi-dimensional best, throwing 5 hits, blocking a shot, hurling 2 pucks on net, and winning 54% of his draws. Fisher's goal was scored in true Mike Fisherian fashion, as he jammed in a rebound off a Chris Phillips point shot while fighting off a Lightning defender. I hitherto advocate the widespread used of nickname Jesus Fish for Fisher, taking in consideration to factors such as: his well advertised faith, last name, and the reverence he enjoys amongst the followers of his team. Now go forth, and spread the word.

Unofficial Mayor of Ottawa Daniel Alfredsson was also in fine form, having yet another strong showing on the penalty kill while recording two assists. The Captain helped Chris Kelly score only his thirs goal in 23 games, setting him up on a short-handed two-on-one. Alfredsson is now on a bit of a hot streak, picking up points in four straight (3G, 3A.)

The Senators won this one despite falling off the waggon with regards to a habit they looked to have kicked: Allowing a goal immediately after having scored on of their own. I don't have any qualitative stats on how many times they have done so this year, but it seems like somewhat of a trend for the 2008-09 edition of the Senators.

Brian Elliott deserves some credit, however. While he allowed what would be best described as a flaky goal to let the Lightning tie the game only 13 seconds after his club had taken it's first lead of the hockey game, Elliott stood tall in the Senators net, making several saves on odd man rushes. Elliott's counterpart, Kari Ramo was rightly named second star. While Elliott did have a good game, Ramo was easily the stronger of the two goaltenders making several good saves.

I though Lightning defneder (and Kanata native) Cory Murphy had a solid game for the Lightning. His skating and offensive awareness made him a standout on Tampa's blue line. Murphy registered the opening goal of the game, an extension of the offensive success he's been having since being claimed off waivers by the Lightning. The 31-year-old has 13 points in 22 games with Tampa this season, giving him 30 in 76 NHL games with the Lightning and the Florida Panthers. Murphy bounced around Europe for much of his 20s, playing in the Finnish league for five seasons, but has been producing when healthy since being Pogiven a chance in the NHL. He is unrestricted at the end of the year, and I wouldn't complain if the Sens saw fit to bring him in to play a 6-7 role on their back-end at the right price, as he seems to be capable of generating offense and playing well on the powerplay. He could be a good candidate to play the role of someone like a Brendan Bell.

TSN showed an interesting stat during their broadcast. With last night's win, the Senators have now picked up 23 points in the 18 games since Cory Clouston took over behind the bench, meaning they have been playing .638 hockey since the coaching change. Obviously it's different playing without the pressure and intensity of playoff expectations, but that stat is nevertheless encouraging. If Clouston can keep the team playing close to that rate for the remainder of the schedule, he will likely be able to count on a new contract with the Senators.

The gents will have their work cut out for them if they hope to continue their winning ways. They flew to Boston following the game to prepare for Tonight's meeting against the Eastern Conference leading Bruins. The Bruins are slumping, going 3-6-1 in their last 10 games, but Tim Thomas has given Ottawa's shooters fits since joining the brown bears after the lockout, so the Sens will need to bring their A-game if they hope to be successful.

The Daily Wrap Up - Thursday March 12, 2009

The Senators won last night in overtime but is it just me or did the second goal on Brian Elliot disturb you? That is honestly one of the worst mistakes I have seen him make.  It was an absolutely deflating and energy sapping goal, and I do understand that he's young, but it was totally unacceptable to be allowing a goal from that angle.  Good thing the team bounced back or that blunder would have been raised in a 3 column spread in one of the local media.

Philly.com - Gary Bettman is very cautious of the salary cap going forward.

Commissioner Gary Bettman said yesterday that he expects the salary cap to be "about where it was this year" for next season, but there's more uncertainty about 2010-11. The collective bargaining agreement, reached after the 2004-05 NHL lockout, is set to expire in 2011. Players could vote to extend it for another year.

The recent decline of the Canadian dollar will also affect revenues, Bettman said.

I have but two simple points to make on this issue. First, why did the salary cap have to move up so quickly? If it stayed low(er) then players salaries would have adjusted and proportionately it would have worked just fine. Secondly, how is it logical to include a clause that would lower the salary cap? That's the most asinine thing I have seen the NHL do, as teams have signed players to extremely long contracts and while the salary cap goes down, the players salary as a cap hit does not go down.  Would it have not made more sense to raise the salary cap at a much slower pace, and ensure that when it was raised, it was to a level where no retraction was necessary? This all comes from the lockout and the need to ensure that owner profits don't take a hit (which is fine), but some forethought to the envitability of an economic slowdown or recession would have been welcome.

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The Daily Wrap Up - Wednesday March 11, 2009

With the battle for Tavares / Hedman pretty much over and the Senators being out of contention (in reality), it's now going to come down to who has the better pick between the Senators and the Leafs.  It's going to be a close contest as both teams suddenly have decided that winning is now what's in (they just figured it out now).

THN.com - The weekly power rankings are out, but it's pretty much standard issue number 26 for the Senators this week. 

TheLantern.com - Looks like former Ottawa Senator Antoine Vermette is fitting in nicely with his new club.

"I think Antoine's a solid player for us," Hitchcock said. "He looks like a guy that can play in every situation. He's a guy who does a good job on the penalty kill."

"That's where we've needed help, is on the power play," said Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash. "We have the worst power play in the league and we'll take all the help we can get."

"He fits right in," winger Jared Boll said. "It feels like his already been here a while."

The deal really was a mutually beneficial affair as Columbus ditches salary and receives an all around players that can slip into the lineup without changing the dynamic of the dressing room.  All I have to say is just wait until he misses his 6th breakaway in a row, or a wide open one-timer before you start singing his praises Columbus.  His lack of finish was really what defined his time here so hopefully he can shed that image in Columbus and fulfill some of his potential.

Sens Beat Leafs, Avoid Further Disgrace: Ottawa 2; Toronto 1.

For only the second time this season - and the first time in regulation - the Senators beat the hated Toronto Maple Leafs. While there was no return of Martin Gerber, the game play was fairly mundane, and the rivals lacked the intensity of meetings past... well I can't find a positive to finish that thought. Still, always nice to beat the Leafs. Both teams had their moments in what was a pretty even game as both teams finished with 26 shots. Jason Smith (lower body injury) and Filip Kuba (flu) missed this one, meaning Brian Lee was called up from the AHL on an emergency basis.

The Senators played a fairly strong first period, outshooting Toronto 11-8. Dany Heatley had two solid chances in the final second of the period: a blistering one-timer that veteran goaltender Curtis Joseph somehow got a pad on, and a shovelled shot that hit the post. Chris Campoli (post) and call-up Peter Regin (Joseph) both failed to score on quality chances as well.

The second frame of this one was god-awful boring for the first 15 minutes or so. The Maple Leafs probably had the edge in play, pinning the Senators in their own end for a stretch of 2-3 minutes in the middle of the period. Captian Daniel Alfredsson brought the Senators even with 4:46 left to go in the middle stanza, capitalizing on an Ian White turnover from a broken play, beating a defender, and putting a floating slapper from a rolling puck short side past Joseph. Heatley tipped an Anton Volchenkov slap shot in the high slot to put Ottawa up by one just before the intermission.

Then there was Chris Phillips brushing away teammate Jesse Winchester like a father restraining his four year old son from an inexplicably attractive dead bird on the sidewalk. The incident followed a Winchester hit from behind on Nikolai Kulemin that drew quite the crowd. Winchester tried to get at Brad May while May was being restrained by the referee, and Phillips stepped in to remove his compatriot from the fray. In a league where grown men are willing to engage in a (often mindless) retaliatory physical altercation with their opponent regardless of how small a perceived slight they inflicted on their teammate, this was definitely something you don't see every game.

The highlight of the scoreless third period had to be Blue Team coach Ron Wilson’s act of desperation as he had Jason Spezza’s stick measured, resulting in a two minute minor to Spezza with 2:15 left to play. The club seemed to rally around what was somewhat of an underhanded move by Wilson. Wilson’s gamble did not pay off though, as Spezza’s teammates put forth a concerted effort to ensure he did not wear the goat horns following a Leafs' game for the second time in nine days. Daniel Alfredsson and Jarkko Ruutu both created turnovers and alleviated what pressure Toronto built in their team’s end, as the Leafs failed to register a scoring chance up a man. A very solid kill.

My three stars in this one were as follows:
1) Daniel Alfredsson: Great on the PK, scored a goal on a fine individual effort. Best player on the ice tonight. (1G)
2) Curtis Joseph: With the leafs outshot and out chanced through two, Joseph kept this one close. The Sens could easily have tied this one during the first period were it not for his heroics. (24 saves on 26 shots)
3) Dany Heatley: Had multiple scoring chances, was effective in the offensive zone. (GWG)

Speaking of Heatley, he has been an absolute juggernaut against Toronto in his career. Put him down for 27 goals and 23 assists in 37 career games against the Leafs. Alfredsson now has 60 points in 61 career regular season games against the Blue and White, while Jason Spezza has 35 assists to go with 8 goals in 34 games against his boyhood heroes. Kind of makes you wish these guys were together during those four playoff showdowns with the Blue Team, though there's a good chance they would have been felled by the same mix of confidence issues, Ed Belfour and/or Curtis Joseph that stymied the group played in those series.

Mike Comrie was also impressive in this one. He made a nice play to set up the maligned Christoph Schubert, and created a turnover or two to put the Leafs back on their heels. While he did not register a point, Comrie made smart plays with the puck and showed good patience in the offensive zone. Comrie finished with one shot on goal in 15:43 of ice time.

Christoph Schubert returned from the press box to show us all why he has spent so much time there. Schubert made a variety of his patented mistakes. On the defensive, Schubert got caught pinching to hit lay a check on a Leaf forward who had long rid himself of the puck, resulting in an odd man rush in which Schubert was the odd man out. The foul up allowed Ian White to walk in on Brain Elliott unmolested and squeak a one timed wrist shot through the rookie’s pads. The two-time German Olympian did not contain his blunders to the defensive aspects of the game, however. Set up for a beautiful scoring opportunity by Mike Comrie, Schubert ripped the puck wide of the net. He did recover the puck shortly afterwards with a shooting lane, and repeated his trademark move. This all occurred in his staggering 4:14 of first-period ice-time. Schubert would play 14:42, last amongst Ottawa defencemen, was the only player on the team with a minus rating, and led the team with 4 shots that did not find the net.

The Sens wrap up their nine game home stand Wednesday night when they host the Tampa Bay Lighting and first-year member of the team Gary Roberts Olaf Kolzig Matt Carle Steve Eminger Radim Vrbata Ryan Malone Wednesday. The Lightning have lost 3 straight and are 2-6-2 in their last 10, meaning the Sens may be in a position to add to their three game wining streak.

I will leave you with an interesting stat:

3 Game Winning Streaks Under Craig Hartsburg: 0.

3 Game Winning Streaks Under Cory Clouston: 2.

I'm just saying...

Anoter Reason To Hate the Toronto Maple Leafs

TSN.ca is reporting that Ron Wilson has decided that Curtis Joseph will start in goal tonight against Ottawa, at the exclusion of Martin Gerber, robbing fans of both clubs of a very interesting storyline. Thanks, Ron.

Who knows why this decision was made? Was it because the Leafs were afraid Gerber's fragile psyche would melt under the pressure of the ex-home rink's bright lights and chorus of boos? Was it the soft goals he let in Saturday's contest with Edmonton? Or, my personal suspicion, is Gerber's new Leafs gear STILL not ready, and the team didn't want to throw him in net with his Ottawa gear on, as that would just be too much?

Either way, this stinks. Who knows? Maybe the Sens build on Saturday's offensive explosion against Buffalo and we get to see both Joseph AND Gerber. Here's hoping.

The Daily Wrap Up - Monday March 9, 2009

With the trade deadline sitting pretty in the rear view mirror, the only thing to look forward to is the NHL Entry Draft.  I know it's far off, and discussing it now is about as bad as when stores put out christmas decorations before halloween, but it's still something to look forward to.  

Hockeysfuture.com - With Ottawa drafting somewhere in the 1-10 range, here's a list of the ISS top 10 ranked players:

1 Tavares, John C 9/20/1990 L 6.00 200 London OHL
2 Hedman, Victor LD 12/18/1990 L 6.06 220 Modo SweE
3 Svensson-Paajarvi, Magnus LW 4/12/1991 L 6.01 200 Timra SweE
4 Duchene, Matt C 1/16/1991 L 5.11 196 Brampton OHL
5 Schenn, Brayden C 8/22/1991 L 6.00 193 Brandon WHL
6 Cowen, Jared LD 1/25/1991 L 6.04.7 218 Spokane WHL
7 Kane, Evander C 8/2/1991 L 6.01 180 Vancouver WHL
8 Kadri, Nazem C 10/6/1990 L 5.11.5 180 London OHL
9 Shore, Drew C 1/29/1991 R 6.02 190 USA Under-18 NTDP
10 Josefson, Jacob C 3/2/1991 L 6.00 187 Djurgarden SweE

I think the top 3 are obvious choices, but after that, it will depend of team needs.  I think that Brayden Shenn would be a perfect fit in Ottawa, and should he drop below the fifth spot, would be a huge steal.  Imagine just how good the BoO would be with the Shenn Brothers going at it?

Canoe.ca - Chris Neil has begun skating with the team, and with his return looming, someone will need to be removed from the lineup.

Senators RW Chris Neil expects to resume skating with the team today. He has been out since Feb. 11, when he suffered a lacerated calf against the Sabres. His next step will be to get cleared for contact

Of course the obvious choice is Binghamton call-up Peter Regin, but it would be an undeserved bump as that third line (with Comrie and Kelly)  has melded together fairly well and will allow Regin some much needed NHL experience.  It's a shame that it will probably come down to that, and a shame Neil was not traded when the Senators had the perfect opportunity to get a return for him.