GAME DAY: Calgary Flames @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30 PM Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010

GAME DAY: Calgary Flames @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30 PM Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010



Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Clutchie
Happy birthday to you

Yes, yes, it (Tuesday) is the annual celebration of the date that our beloved co-founder escaped from that ovarian Bastille. And I could not think of a better present than to star another winning streak.

Ottawa (33-22-4, 2nd in the Northeast and 5th in the Eastern Conference) hosts Calgary (29-21-9, 3rd in the Northwest and 7th in the Western Conference) Tuesday night at SBP. The Sens come home after having their franchise-record-setting winning streak stopped at 11 games by the cross-province rivals.

Calgary has attempted to shake the team out of its doldrums by executing a seven player trade, sending Dion Phaneuf to Toronto, then following up by sending Olli Jokinen to the Rangers. The list of ex-Flames also includes Fredrik Sjostrom, Brandon Prust and prospect Keith Aulie. In return the Flames received Niklas Hagman, Matt Stajan, Ian White, Jamal Mayers, Ales Kotalik and Chris Higgins. A number of the new Flames have contracts that expire at the end of the season. Some saw this as a desperation move by a GM about to lose his job.

At the end of the day, it’s likely the Flames have gotten better (mostly because Phaneuf was not playing up to his potential), but the team still sits precariously 3 points ahead of 9th place Red Wings, with Detroit holding a game in hand.

Let me just say thanks to the guys for giving us a great three weeks and a few new team records to shoot for:
- consecutive wins by team: 11
- consecutive wins by goalie: 9 (Elliott)
- consecutive goal-scoring games: 8 (Spezza, erasing one of Heatley’s records)

(I’m not sure, but is 6 road games also a new record or tying an exiting one?)

Game Coverage
TV: RDS (HD),SNET-W,SNET-E
Radio: Team 1200
Web: check http://www.atdhe.net and http://www.justin.tv

Latest updates:
Elliott to get the start in goal tonight!
Team Red (captain - Chris Phillips) wins the Sens Skills competition 13-6 in front of 15,112 fans. Cheechoo wins accuracy shootout wih 4 targets on 5 shots; Fisher wins hardest shot; Shannon wins fastest skater; Michalek and Fisher tie for puck control relay.

Team Lineups:

Ottawa lineup as of Feb. 8, 2010
http://www.dailyfaceoff.com/team-lineups/ottawa-senators-team-lineup

Game notes:
Source: http://www.nhl.com/ice/matchup.htm?id=2009020879

Calgary lineup as of Feb 5, 2010: http://www.dailyfaceoff.com/team-lineups/calgary-flames-team-lineup

TSN's Ice Chips:
Source: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=11009

Injuries
Ottawa Key Injuries

D Erik Karlsson (Shoulder, possibly out until after the Olympic break)
F Nick Foligno (Broken leg, out 6-8 weeks)

Calgary Key Injuries

F Ales Kotalik (undisclosed, questionable)
F Rene Bourque (undisclosed, questionable)
F Craig Conroy (knee, on IR)
F Nigel Dawes (leg on IR)
F David Moss (shoulder, on IR)

Game Day Previews:

Sportsnet.ca Game Day Preview: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2010/02/09/flames_sens_pre/

OttawaSenators.com Game Day Preview: see NHL.com

NHL.com Game Day Preview: http://senators.nhl.com/club/preview.htm?id=2009020879

ESPN Game Day Preview: http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/preview?gameId=300209014

ESPN Stats Comparison


Media Links:

Clouston speaks to media following Monday practice: http://senators.nhl.com/v2/ext/Audio/100208_Clouston.mp3
Clouston speaks to media following Saturday loss: http://bit.ly/doMtFD
SensTVOnline: http://senators.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp
Official Twitter of the Ottawa Senators: http://twitter.com/NHL_Sens

GO SENS GO!!!

Hopefuly we get back on track after the embarassment.

Man do we need foligno and karlsson.

Hope Murray makes some move to shore up the defence-campoli and picard have proven themselves useless.

111519 wrote:Hopefuly we get back on track after the embarassment.

Man do we need foligno and karlsson.

Hope Murray makes some move to shore up the defence-campoli and picard have proven themselves useless.

Well I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing Lee up in place of either Picard or Campoli. You can say Picard is worse till you're blue in the face, but Picard has been sitting for a month. I'm pretty sure Campoli would have regressed sitting out a month, just as I'm sure Picard would have picked up a little confidence along the way if he had been playing. Not that I'm advocating that Lee is a better D-man at this point, but he might try harder or, on the flip side, Picard/Campoli might try harder after sitting out a couple of games.

Oh, and in case people skip over the first post,

Happy Birthday to Cap'n Clutch!
(I think it's tomorrow)

:prop: :break:

wprager wrote:Oh, and in case people skip over the first post,

Happy Birthday to Cap'n Clutch!
(I think it's tomorrow)

:prop: :break:

It is indeed tomorrow and you missed the most important smiley.

Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

On the bright side the players should have their ears wide open and ready to listen to Clouston after that last game debacle.

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

I actually predicted Shannon for the win before the competition and also predicted 15,000 as attendance and was off by 111 I think.

source?

SpezDispenser wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

I actually predicted Shannon for the win before the competition and also predicted 15,000 as attendance and was off by 111 I think.

Yeah, I echo Avatar. Source?

No source. You'll just have to take my word for it on my B-day Eve.

I added a poll.

Michallica wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

Shannon is so tiny, the ventilation at SBP made him faster than he is

Made me smile +1

Cap'n Clutch wrote:I added a poll.

Easy choice there.

Michallica wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

Shannon is so tiny, the ventilation at SBP made him faster than he is

faster on one side, and slower on the other, so it nullifies

How come I can't vote?

marakh wrote:How come I can't vote?

Fixed. Let me know if you can vote now.

OK. Who'd I tick off for putting a poll up?

It was me; I admit it; they kindda annoy me ... sorry.

TheAvatar wrote:It was me; I admit it; they kindda annoy me ... sorry.

And on my B-day eve in a thread that is for a game being played on my B-day.

Look what you're going to make me do now -

Maybe it's my fault that the Flames are doing so poorly? My SIM team is in 9th in the West.

There, I'll help you

TheAvatar wrote:There, I'll help you

It's going to have to be a virtual beer for me tomorrow night seeing as I'll have my 16 month old with me at the game.

Oh and she says: Go Gee Go.

CheapShots has outdone himself:

I would make a bad coach. At least when it comes to goalies.
If I was Cory Clouston, I would have had lost my patience early Saturday.
I would have yanked Brian Elliott's Donkey right after Toronto's second goal.

Why do you read him? Are you masochist or somethin?

TheAvatar wrote:Why do you read him? Are you masochist or somethin?

It was from the OffThePosts blog. Some good stuff in there.

Greg Carvel to guest on Team1200 shortly. Via Sens Twitter.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

I actually predicted Shannon for the win before the competition and also predicted 15,000 as attendance and was off by 111 I think.

Shannon won last year, so he was the favorite. I predicted Karosson would push him for the title, though. I don't think Michalek is as fast as the other two.

PKC wrote:

wprager wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

I actually predicted Shannon for the win before the competition and also predicted 15,000 as attendance and was off by 111 I think.

Shannon won last year, so he was the favorite. I predicted Karosson would push him for the title, though. I don't think Michalek is as fast as the other two.

Michalek also looks like he's bigger than both Karlsson and Shannon put together to be fair.

The competition is strictly speed, not how fast they can move relative to their mass.

TheAvatar wrote:Shannon beat Michalek for the faster skater? Wow.

where can i find a recap of the skills competition? i can't get into some sites i normally go to as my computer is on the fritz.

got it. thanks for the pm. cheechoo sure is accurate

SpezDispenser wrote:Carvel compared Karlsson's impact on the game in term of slowing down he pace - to Alfredsson.

that sure is some high praise from Carvel. i think we can all see that Karlsson has something special. he is starting to get attention from hockey sites everywhere.