After a Tomas Plekanec shorthanded goal gave the Habs a 1-0 lead, the Senators were sent to the man advantage time after time and failed to beat Carey Price. Four shots caught iron behind the Canadiens netminder and Montreal defenders blocked shot after shot.
The end result was an ugly 0/9 night on the power play.
It just seemed like a night where the Sens weren't going to get a break. That was until a great hustle play by Zack Smith set up the game tying goal by Colin Greening with under 14 minutes to play. Ottawa had a couple of chances to win this one in regulation but Carey Price stood tall in the Montreal net. If not for Price, this is a game the Sens would have won handily.
Considering the outcome in the shootout on Wednesday night, you knew that Ottawa would go for it in the overtime and that is exactly what they did.
Erik Karlsson lugged the puck out of the Ottawa zone and hit a streaking Daniel Alfredsson on the right side. Alfie made a quick move on the Habs defender and hit a wide open Kuba on the left point. Kuba had all day to pick his spot and made no mistake beating Price on the blocker side much to the delight of about 60% of the fans in attendance.
The win gives the Senators control of the division for the first time this season and sends a strong message to the rest of the league. The Bruins, who now have two games in hand, will have a chance to regain top spot when they host the Flyers tomorrow night.
And depending on the result of that game, the Sens can either regain or stretch their Northeast lead with a win over the Leafs on St. Patrick's Day Saturday.
- I mentioned this in the comment section but wanted to pass along some really exciting news related to the site. For the first time, SensChirp will be getting media access and press pass for the April 5th game against the Bruins. Obviously a really exciting opportunity for me personally but it's something that would not have been possible with ongoing support from the readers of this site. Thanks goes out to each and every one of you.
- Bryan Murray spoke with Elliote Friedman during tonight's broadcast and provided a handful of interesting tid bits. The first is that he expects Anderson to return to the net sometime next week. Also on the goaltending front, he mentioned that one of Lehner or Bishop will be sticking with the club even when Anderson does return. Murray also indicated that while no formal negotiations have been held related to Erik Karlsson, he does expect the process to begin in the near future.
Anyways, I don't even care... I just scored Row 1 tickets to the Sens vs Jets on the 26th! Here's hoping that it goes to overtime! Both teams need points! I don't even care who wins. Haha.
Go Sens Go!
Now just beat those damn Leafs.
Go Sens Go
MacLean will have them working on their Power Play at
practice on Saturday morning. Going 0 for 9, indicates
that they do not shoot but pass too much.You could clearly see they kept trying to set up Karlsson way too much.
Also, Karlsson felt some heat, and made bad passes at blue line, while sliding puck to other side of blue line!
Sens outshot the Habs 33-14, but the Habs lead till 3:07 of the third period, when Z.Smith won a race to the puck and set up Greening for the equalizer.
Since Bishop was not overworked , I think that Coach MacLean, will give him another start vs the Leafs tonite.
Do not see any lineup changes , so I guess Daugavins and Konopka will still be healthy scratches.
Nice to see Sens 2nd just below Rangers in Eastern Conference, and leading Northeast Division, just ahead of the Bruins !!
GO SENS GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
When comparing Spezza and Foligno, I wasn't talking about talent. I was saying that Foligno commits a lot of the same mistakes Spezza did when he was younger. Foligno is still young and has the opportunity to improve. Thats it; offsides and bad penalties can be fixed. Work ethic is all it'll take.
In a year or two we can look back, and we'll see who's right.
I have to say, I saw some absolute horror stories in the parking lot after, no less then 3 collisions, and a habs fan got out and punched another persons car leaving a huge dent all over the side. I just sat back and waited and let the chaos take over..
Not sure if anyone else saw it, but another highlight was a guy in a Nordiques jersey holding a sign in french that said.. 'Lets all wish the habs well in their upcoming golf season'
Neil's fight was all about energising the team and he did a great job, they had their best part of the game right after the fight. He won the fight, but more importantly kick-started the team.
Drinking all day and Ottawa and Philly victory will make this a great pattys day !!!
If anyone wants too watch Silfverberg game stream
http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4f5fc83c0a785
We have divison lead, they are 1 more point out from a Lotto pick!!
Now to get those pesky leafs back for that last game at SBP... If we nab these 2 points we are pretty much guaranteed a playoff spot and will be minimum 1 point clear of Bean Town and max 3 if they lose again!!!
GO SENS GO. rip em a new one tonight. Give that shaky Reimer a run to the bench.
Might even break out the Karlsson jersey for tonight's St. Party's day dust up!
Watched last night's game and as per usual, I'm always shocked at how good the Habs PK is. McStash is right when he says it's ssomething they can learn from.
On another note, I'm still not sold on Big Ben, but it's hard to argue with his stats so far as a Sen.
3-0-2 ... 926 save%, 1.92 gaa -
The Laffs will be gunning tonight, so I really think this will be a good litmus test for Biship.
Go Sens, spank some ass!
Silfverberg 2 assists !!!!
Silfverberg plus 3
Now: 10th in PP
Lol.
Maclean is going to have fix that up.
if i hear someone call him an "offensive defenceman" again i'm going to explode
You people know nothing...
He was a,l over the ice last night. Sure, made some mistakes but as did every other defenceman. How do you not call a guy an offensive defenceman when he jumps in to the play about a half dozen times in one game? The coach clearly like what he sees. The guy is getting waayyy more ice time than Leee ever did
What does that mean for us though? Will you be getting info faster or something and/or able to go to practices? It would be really sweet if you could get a sit down with the Murray's.
I also hope Lee turns out to be a stud and essentially slaps us in the face...
First of he's wearing #100 for some reason.
Second, he's clearly a superstar in the SEL. The announcers didn't stop talking about him once during the intermission. The camera was constantly following him
I cannot wait to see him play for us. To me he looks more that ready for the nhl and because of his power forward style I think will transition muich more smoothly. If anything will probably like the smaller rink and more physical play
Kids gonna be a beauty!
HNIC as usual has spent an entire season covering every detail of another boring Leafs team that won't make the playoffs. Meanwhile, an exciting Sens team down the highway is having a storybook season with all kinds of intriguing plot lines. Sens playoff series' will get low ratings again because the national audience will see this as a team of nobodies. It's just what Melnyk's been complaining about recently and I can see why it's so frustrating for the organization.
The #100 is for 100 year anniversary of his team.....
And it's considered an honour.
He was voted the player (by fans or other players - not sure) worthy of wearing it.
Karlsson's agent playing hardball perhaps ?
Waiting for the post season awards to roll in to maximize his client's bargaining position.
who cares if he jumps up in the play or gets more ice time than lee. he creates no offence whatsoever.
yeah i'm sure he's not even occured to Murray to sign Karlsson.
we aren't technically 1st unless boston loses 2 more games right?
I just never got how that could be considered taking over the spot, I mean we are 1 point up but if boston wins tonight and we lose, they are legit back on top and with 2 games in hand.
Im proud as F^#^ of these fellas and what they have accomplished. I hope we hang on for the full 82 and still come out on top of the B's when they have their 82 games completed.
GO SENS BABY!
* On the Karlsson note, Isn't it pretty clear karlsson is a sen for life? Mutually on both sides
How can you say that? All game long he delivers crisp passes out of his zone. And he made himself available to receive a pass on the rush numerous times which then creates scoring chances. A few times he got the shot off and a Few times it got blocked just like about 30 other shots the rest of the team took. I don't see how you can't call that creating offense. Every game he's involves in more that a few scoring chances. That's called offense my man
we aren't technically 1st unless boston loses 2 more games right?
I just never got how that could be considered taking over the spot, I mean we are 1 point up but if boston wins tonight and we lose, they are legit back on top and with 2 games in hand
But you have to look at it like we've already accomplished more than them. They still have to go out and get that extra point. If we were tied then yes they would be a head of us.
Kind like golf, as in were the 'club house leader'
No kidding, I guess people want all of our defencemen to be like Karlsson & all of our forwards to be like Spezza. Greening is having a great yr & yet there are fans that think he should be on the 4th line. Gilroy IMO keeps getting better & eventually will start racking up the points, he has 18 so far this season.
The Spezza & Karlsson fans love the fancy players & then there are others like myself who prefer the Neils, Greenings, Smiths, Carkners & O'Briens who work their asses off on every shift. The character guys, who keep the locker room together, who protect the elite players & make the difference when it counts most. Who got the party started last night? Chris Neil by a decisive win in a fight with Staubis.
Also silfverberg has been wearing #100 all season where have you been?
Glad to see brian lee make it to the highlight of the week looking like a pylon on the toronto defence mans highlight goal.
Yes girloy is a chicken with his head cut off... hopefully we call up a dman soon
Oh and one more thing...
Its fuckin st.patty's day, Go sens go!
I'm going to be absolutely ruthless at the game tonight and I encourage any of you who are going to do the same. It's going to be one hell of a night at SBP tonight. I don't know who was responsible for scheduling a game between two teams and fan bases that hate each other on St Patty's day.
Tonight has the recipe for disaster and I'm pumped to rattle some Laffs fans tonight.
Go Sens Go! I love this team. CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PLAYOFFS!!!!!!! !!!!!!
We aren't technically first we are ACTUALLY first. The NHL goes on points not win percentage. Therefore we will be above Boston whilst we have more points them then.
It's a simple and beautiful thing.
I'm going to the game as well. We have those 2 young Leaf bitches behind us tonight...
Last Sens-Leaf game I went to Sens lost 5-0.. I definitely don't want a repeat of that.
This is the Sens 3rd game in 4 nights.. so I'm sure the Leafs will be all over them at the start of the game. Bishop will have to be very good at the beginning of the game.
Oh -- Boston is playing much better today... they are up 1-0 in the first... I guess the Sens scared them.... Sens just have to keep winning... they need this game tonight.
I'm counting the days til he gets over here...
Could be a day of NE Division leapfrog.
I really can't understand the mentality of fans who obsess over the club's marginal players. I guess we all have our axes though, mine being the team's mistreatment by the national media.
Could be haha. We better hang these leafs tonight. Kelly got the first goal. Of course lol. Then Seguin got the second, tear tear Leafs.
this is probably way of course... but maybe we could ship bishop to Tampa for their first (or bishop and a B- prospect for their first)
and then ship Tampa's 1st and our 1st for NYI 1st
am I overvaluing Bishop and Tampa's need for a goalie?
and also..if I'm not overvaluing him...would you guys rather keep bishop to be the backup next year?
I hope Philly takes this!!! COME ON!!!!!!
Not to split hairs but he has 3 goals and 4 assists in 4 games. Agreed though I can't wait to see him next season.
No Game Day post once again??
Ofensive Pairings
1ST LINE
Colin Greening
Jason Spezza
Milan Michalek
2ND LINE
Rob Klinkhammer
Kyle Turris
Daniel Alfredsson
3RD LINE
Nick Foligno
Jim O'Brien
Chris Neil
4TH LINE
Bobby Butler
Zack Smith
Erik Condra
Defensive Pairings
1ST LINE
Filip Kuba
Erik Karlsson
2ND LINE
Jared Cowen
Sergei Gonchar
3RD LINE
Chris Phillips
Matt Gilroy
1st Powerplay Unit
Milan Michalek
Jason Spezza
Daniel Alfredsson
Filip Kuba
Erik Karlsson
2nd Powerplay Unit
Nick Foligno
Kyle Turris
Chris Neil
Sergei Gonchar
Matt Gilroy
Goalies
Ben Bishop
Alex Auld
Injury List
Peter Regin
Jesse Winchester
Craig Anderson
Funny guy
Yes. Confirmed March 17, 2012, 12:17 p.m.
Boston - Philly go to shootout.
Philly Scored.
Boston Scored.
Philly Scored.
Boston Scored.
Philly Misses.
Boston leapfrogs Ottawa by a point.
Lets fuck these leafs up tonight.
@ Tcharger,
To be serious, the information that we get from the owner
of this great website, is somewhat more important to me,
than some of the lame comments posted at times. No reflection on your input, which is always informative.
Maybe now that Chirp has a press pass / media pass, he has
no time to post the Game Day Thread ???
Ok, but Boston Just got 2 points this afternoon and now they are back on top
Which is half my point, why celebrate 12 hours at the top?
They just got 2 points 10 minutes ago.
The title should now read "Bruins grab back division lead"
LOL
Im not knocking it, even the league recognized it
Congrats on your being "Credentialed!" Have seen guys do some "funny" things with and for a "Press Pass!"
That being said, it looks like the Sens and Bruins are going to be flip flopping 2nd/7th for the next while...Either way, we are about 4 wins away from securing a spot!
GO SENS GO! FUCK TORONTO!
Am sure all our players remember the 5-0 disaster at SBP
They will turn the tables and crucify the Leafs 6-3 !
GO SENS GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LETS CRUSH EM LIKE WE KNOW WE CAN
GO SENS!!!!!!!
...oh ya and don't forget to win.
Go sens go!
Rep the 613.....
Beat the queefs!!!!!!!!!
Maybe, just maybe he takes a puck off the noggin and has to go to the quiet room.
LMAO
Enjoy the moment. We know you wish it happened in a bed as well.
dont think it was bragging, im pretty sure he was just saying "good job" type of thing and making sure he didnt slam his head on the ice.. i know these are rivals but players still have some respect for one another
Hopefully our bench got the message
not right?? it's a fucking SHAME!!
Our crowd is starting to take over,
lets go Sens!
I wish they were actually pissing on the leafs fans as well. That'd be great.
Gonna be an embarrassing playoff run if these guys dont shape up
And good, now "Celine" Phaneuf getting a penalty. COME ON SENS!!!
Hehe Karlsosn should of had that penalty, not Steckel, refs trying to get us back in this game.
Not to mention our 5 on 5 play
We've forgotten how to score apparently.
THE GUY SUCKS BALLS!!!!!
Wait for it
Only arena in the league were its captain gets booed...
May as well throw in the towel
We are a mess going into the playoffs fellas
Unlike Air Cnada Centre where entire home team gets booed
USELESS PIECE OF SHIT
That better be the last time Foligno gets promoted from the 4th line where he belongs
In fact he belongs in the press box after that bone head move
Wonder what Hax has to say about that...
You are fucked buddy
sit him the rest of the game, and sit him in the press box for a couple games
Yeah by their OWN crowd, not by opponents crowd. And its totally warranted, Leafs suck, but they are beating us...go figure.
He deserves a penalty too.
Are we really such pussies?
yeah because Bishop is the ONLY cause of our defeat tonight, our forwards have been excellent and our defense flawless.
/end sarcasm
Phaneuf topshelf...
Hey 111519 we still gonna win 4-2 ,LOL
Time for a beer run, I aint gonna miss much...
No
CBC is totaly Toronto based
The Sens are only 20 years old, so alot of the fanbase were leaf or hab fans before Ottawa got the franchise back. You can already see more and more Sens fans and it won't be long before games are dominated by Sens fans.
Besides, how pathetic do you have to be to wear that perpetual loser logo into a playoff bound teams barn?
Even if the Leafs win 20-0 they are once again, losers.
He frustrates me no end!
In any event, I hate the fact that the skids from TO boo our boys in our barn. I wish I had the cash to buy all the tix and hand them out only to Sens fans.
Yeah Rick Nash Sure carried Columbus to the playoffs all those years...
You gotta get to the playoffs before you know what its like to win in the playoffs
This is Leafs playoffs
Seriously what do they say to UFA's, come play for Toronto, you only have to play from October to April?
HA HA Fucking losers
For some reason they always play poorly to the Leafs at home, but not on the road, it must be a mental thing.
But I have no doubt they will rebound from this loss and get back in it. Look at the standings folks. This season has been more than impressive for a rebuilding team.
No shutout for Reimer at least!
Why? He is right, these are the teams we should be able to beat, teams that are not in the playoffs we should be able to beat.
Hence why we had to resort to Foligno on line 1
Its gonna be one hell of a quick exit if we play like this vs BOS or anyone for that matter.
Disgusting...Leafs get cheered off the ice in Ottawa, lol...
sick and tired of non top 6 players playing on the top lines.
spezza is our number 1 center and will be for many more years. stop crying about it, when he is scoring like the top 10 center he can be, you love him.
Everyone on the board knows you are a Leaf fan. You are not fooling anyone. Enjoy your night, A few weeks from now you can move on to baseball, or ballet classes, while the rest of us are watching our team in the playoffs.
P.s. The playoffs are a series where the best teams play each other for the Stanley Cup.
wish all you want, as long as SBP keeps getting filled up by "families"/seni or citizens/kids. it will never get remotely close to that
Right Tookie?
Go fukken Sens GO!
It was another embarrassment by the boys in red vs the boys in blue.
I've come to the conclusion that playing the Leafs at SBP is more of a mental thing than the aspect of skill. The Sens are the better team, but for some reason, the pressure of playing the Leafs at home where 50% of the fans are Leaf fans always seems to rattle them. They just can't get it done.
At the same time, the first goal was an absolute fluke, and the second one was called by a poor penalty call on the refs on O'Brien of which there wasn't any penalty at all.
But still.
just being honest boys. My opinion.
Good grief. The truth always comes out in losses like these eh? What if the Sens would have won?
Fairweather fans...
Chirp - what do ou think?
Ya. FFS bro. Spezza is a legend.
30-31 is really just about the perfect age you want your top center to be if you are competing for the cup..
Rrrrrright, I have more respect for Glen Healey, at least he is honest about wanting to blow Brian Burke, some posters on here get their jollies handing out backhanded compliments to the Sens and think we don't see right through them. It's pathetic.
Again, Sens=Playoffs
Leafs=Golf
ha, ha,
And who would you replace Spezza with? Who would play those 1C minutes? Turris? Smith?
Do you have any idea how pathetic you are bringing up when the Leafs were in the playoffs last? Did they even have flat screen tv's or HD back then?
Funny as hell cause it's true.
Nice to know he's paying attention to the game.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/TOR/1995.html
Everyone of them retired
Poor Tookie.
Go Sens GO!
Hey Tookie - yeah trading Spezza for a glass of water.
You trade a guy like Spezza you get good players back - unless of course your name is Brian burke.
Seriously boys. We have a number 1 center. Stop trying to fuck with it.
What an ass, kyle butler lol... someone should give the guy some sens info and the proper names of our players.
He's still a laffs, habs homer
Their next game is against Boston.
This past week were 3 impt games against Mtl & Tor... Sens came out at .500.
The Leafs blocked everything tonight from the point.. and the Sens kept shooting from there... Too many frustration penalties by the vets. I can expect that from the young players but not Alfie & Foligno.
Neil should have jumped Komi instead of Grabovski -- what the hell was he thinking?
Bad game by the Sens. Not Bishop's fault.. but I'd like to see Lehner for one more game..
Sens had better smarten up... NJ is up next.. They play like they have the last 3 games it's gonna be ugly.
Who is going to be the #1 centre on this team if they get rid of Spezza? Not every team has a #1 centre... so to trade one is stupid.
I did notice more Sens jerseys in the stands tonight compared to the last Leaf game I was at... but it got quiet in the 3rd... The way they were playing... nothing to cheer about. I kept yelling.. but not a lot of people did...
Thanks, it makes you understand why leaf fans are so frustrated and like to bash a winning team like the Sens.
Soooo Jealous.
Yea. Sure. Zibby's comin' round the mountain with Silfverberg. Who needs a ppg centre? Spezza sucks! Right. Right?
Vancouver fans in Toronto, the leafs virtually every game in Buffalo.
Baseball has Red Sox/Yankees fans taking over all the time. Its actually hilarious that you will never see these crowds in Toronto
Anyways, Sens were probably pooped from 3 games in 4 nights.
Leafs can plan their parade from this one.
Nash-Spezza-Silfverberg
Michalek - Turris - Alfie
Zibanejad - Z. Smith - Greening
How can you thumbs down this ??
Sorry I know this has been beaten already, just my opinion when I see a no-show from Jason. I hate losing to the leafs.
Funny how people are taking shots at Ottawa for the fact that Leaf fans show up and are loud at SBP. They make it sound like it happens only here. Unfortunately it happens in every Canadian rink, yes Winnipeg as well. I explain it to people like this. The Leaf fans are like cockroaches. Every time you try to kill one, they seem to multiply. It's an infestation of a kind only seen between October and the first week in April. Eventually the cockroaches disappear in April and unfortunately return next October.
Everybody is just standing around passing the puck back and forth, but NOBDOY IS MOVING THEIR FEET
no wonder MTL and TOR managed to block so many shots, its really easy to read where a player is going to shoot when he isn't moving
Look at how TOR scored on the PP. pass down low, kessel SKATES to the middle of the ice and fires
Two shifts later Ottawa is back on the PP and they're all standing still trying to T-up a one timer
Jason Spezza has been terrible the past 3 games but especially last night, he was a ghost
http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/03/17/bobby-orr-a-big-karlsson-booster
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
Someone was mentioning how we need to shuffle our shoutout selections (aka Michalek and Spez) because they have become so predictable. Well, so is our PP. Always the same play, shot from the point -- blocked and deflected into a corner, forwards hussle and pass back to the point. Repeat until the penalty expires...
And Spezza... I don't want to shit on the guy but christ, he's not playing anything close to a top line centreman the last 3 games. No hussle, bad passes, no heart...WTF?? Butler isn't the issue on that line, he's working his tail off.
Like Sandy said, Its gut check time. Some teams are pushing hard to get into the playoffs and we have NJ and Pitts this week. Need at least 1 of those 2 games.