Rookie Robin Lehner is expected to start in goal Tuesday for the Ottawa Senators against the Boston Bruins. After that, who knows? By the time the Senators return from the current road trip, he could be the club’s number one goaltender, number two goaltender or he could be back in Binghamton of the American Hockey League.
The biggest change on the Ottawa Senators roster since the last time they met the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 6 is the addition of 6-foot-4, 232-pound winger Matt Kassian.
If Ben Bishop is nervous about his future with the trade deadline only a few days away, he’s translating that anxiety into superb play.
It was, as the kids like to say these days, an “awkward” few moments inside the Ottawa Senators dressing room following practice Wednesday.
Apparently, nobody bothered to tell the Ottawa Senators that the three goaltending system isn’t supposed to work.
Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean gave his team Tuesday off from practice. No wonder. They looked like a tired team Monday, repeatedly beaten to the puck and forced into making bad decisions, over and over again, by the New Jersey Devils.
Sens goaltender Ben Bishop idolized Martin Brodeur, and now he’s got the better the Devils’ great on two occasions.