The Ottawa Sun n Saturday, March 16, 2013

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SPECIAL TEAMS
Past
(1-1-3) MTL 4, OTT 3 SO BOS 3, OTT 2 SO OTT 3, NYR 2 TOR 5, OTT 4 NYI 3, OTT 2 SO

SENATORS: PP 18.2% (13th), PK 88.0% (2nd) sabres: PP 11.2% (30th), PK 78.9% (21st)

Senators (13-8-6) at sabres (10-14-3)

GameDay
LEFT WING

past

(1-2-2) BUF 3, NYR 1 PHA 3, BUF 2 NJ 3, BUF 2 SO CAR 4, BUF 3 NYR 3, BUF 2 SO

TOday, 3 P.M., FIRST NIAGARA CENTer; TV: SPORTSNET, TVA; RADIO: TEAM 1200 , CJFO-FM 94.5 (French)

FORWARDS DEFENCE

Sun hockey writer Don Brennan breaks it down

TODAYS MATCHUP

SENATORS GAMEDAY lines

CENTRE RIGHT WING
Jakob Silfverberg Daniel Alfredsson Chris Neil Erik Condra Sergei Gonchar Andre Benoit Eric Gryba Ben Bishop Robin Lehner

SENATORS
GOALIES
Player Kyle Turris Daniel Alfredsson Sergei Gonchar Colin Greening Zack Smith Erik Karlsson Milan Michalek Mika Zibanejad Erik Condra Patrick Wiercioch Jakob Silfverberg Chris Phillips Chris Neil Andre Benoit Jim OBrien Jason Spezza Marc Methot Eric Gryba Dave Dziurzynski Guillaume Latendresse Peter Regin Kaspars Daugavins Mike Lundin Mark Stone Goalie GPI Ben Bishop 8 robin lehner 5 GP 27 26 24 26 27 14 15 21 27 23 27 27 27 22 23 5 27 13 10 8 18 18 7 4 GS W 7 4 5 1 G 5 6 1 4 2 6 2 6 3 3 4 3 3 1 5 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 L 4 0 A 10 8 12 7 9 4 8 3 6 6 4 5 4 5 0 3 3 3 0 1 2 2 0 0 OT 0 4 P +/- PIM PP SH GW 15 +2 12 1 0 1 14 -1 25 2 0 1 13 +2 10 1 0 1 11 +5 2 1 0 1 11 -3 32 0 0 0 10 +6 8 2 1 2 10 +5 4 0 0 0 9 +4 4 3 0 0 9 +4 20 0 0 0 9 +1 27 2 0 0 8 +6 10 1 1 1 8 +3 33 1 0 0 7 +2 75 0 0 2 6 +0 4 0 0 1 5 -3 4 1 0 0 5 +3 2 1 0 0 4 -1 20 0 0 0 3 -6 12 0 0 0 2 +0 13 0 0 0 2 +2 4 0 0 0 2 -4 4 0 0 0 2 -8 7 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 SA GA GAA SV SV% SO 253 19 2.54 234 .925 0 196 11 2.07 185 .944 0 S 62 61 51 36 47 63 28 44 44 42 71 46 50 29 34 12 30 26 17 16 29 19 10 3 G A 0 0 0 0 S% 8.1 9.8 2.0 11.1 4.3 9.5 7.1 13.6 6.8 7.1 5.6 6.5 6.0 3.4 14.7 16.7 3.3 0.0 11.8 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PIM 0 0

Colin Greening Kyle Turris G. Latendresse Zack Smith Kaspars Daugavins Mika Zibanejad Matt Kassian Jim OBrien Marc Methot Chris Phillips Patrick Wiercioch

DEFENCE PAIRINGS

Most dangerous player on ice is Vanek

LEFT WING

sabres GAMEDAY lines

CENTRE RIGHT WING
Jason Pominville Drew Stafford Brian Flynn Nathan Gerbe Tyler Myers Robin Regehr Mike Weber Ryan Miller Jhonas Enroth

Steadiness of Methot, Phillips underrated

GOALTENDING POWER PLAY COACHING OVERALL PENALTY KILL

Thomas Vanek Cody Hodgson Steve Ott Jochen Hecht Marcus Foligno Kevin Porter John Scott Mikhail Grigorenko Christian Ehrhoff Andrej Sekera Jordan Leopold

GOALIES

DEFENCE PAIRINGS

Miller has more experience than Bishop

= HOT = COLD

Improving the last three games

Coming off rare rough outing

First time Sens face Sabres without Ruff

Senators are 2-0-0 vs. Sabres this season, winning in Ottawa 4-3 and 2-0 ... Daniel Alfredsson has 42 goals and 41 assists in 87 career games vs. Sabres ... Two of Patrick Wierciochs three goals (in his last five games) have been scored in the state of New York ... Senators are 4-1-0 in the first of backto-back games this season ... Sabres goalie Ryan Miller is 14-17-3 vs. Senators in his career

PLUS

sabres
Player Thomas Vanek Cody Hodgson Jason Pominville Tyler Ennis Steve Ott Marcus Foligno Christian Ehrhoff Drew Stafford Andrej Sekera Jochen Hecht Nathan Gerbe Mikhail Grigorenko Tyler Myers Alexander Sulzer Jordan Leopold Mike Weber Brian Flynn TJ Brennan Robyn Regehr Kevin Porter Patrick Kaleta John Scott Goalie RYAN MILLER JHONAS ENROTH GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW 24 14 16 30 +4 18 6 1 1 27 10 12 22 +0 14 0 1 1 27 9 11 20 -2 8 1 1 1 26 7 11 18 -6 8 1 0 0 27 3 10 13 +4 47 1 0 0 26 3 8 11 -4 21 0 0 0 26 2 9 11 +6 18 0 0 1 27 2 7 9 -8 15 0 0 0 21 1 7 8 +1 4 0 0 0 26 2 5 7 +5 12 0 1 0 23 3 2 5 -3 8 0 1 0 22 1 4 5 -2 0 0 0 0 25 3 1 4 -7 22 1 0 2 17 3 1 4 +3 10 0 0 1 17 1 3 4 -7 12 0 0 0 21 0 4 4 +0 46 0 0 0 6 2 1 3 +1 0 0 0 0 10 1 0 1 -1 6 1 0 0 20 0 1 1 -1 14 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 -2 6 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 -1 46 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 -2 41 0 0 0 GS W L OT SA GA GAA SV SV% SO 23 9 12 3 755 65 2.83 690 .914 0 4 1 2 0 134 14 3.26 120 .896 0 S 83 72 76 68 35 41 60 63 19 40 32 21 28 15 24 11 17 18 13 8 16 5 G A 0 0 0 0 S% 16.9 13.9 11.8 10.3 8.6 7.3 3.3 3.2 5.3 5.0 9.4 4.8 10.7 20.0 4.2 0.0 11.8 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 PIM 2 0

Chance to push Sabres further out of race

SENATORS G Craig Anderson, D Erik Karlsson, C Jason Spezza sabres D Tyler Ennis, D Alexander Sulzer

Senators are 22-26-3-4 in Buffalo ... Ottawa hasnt won in Buffalo since a 3-2 shootout victory on New Years Eve, 2011 ... Thomas Vanek has 19 goals in 48 career games vs. Senators ... Sabres hottest line of late has been their third ... Ben Bishops only other start against Buffalo was an overtime loss ... First game in Buffalo for Jakob Silfverberg, Mika Zibanejad

MINUS

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