Daniel Alfredsson ends the Senators’ goal-scoring drought and Ottawa ends its losing slide with a 2-1 shootout victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday.
Daniel Alfredsson will be aiming to lead the Ottawa Senators to a victory over the Carolina Hurricanes Thursday. When the game is done, though, he will be anxious to see how his good friend Wade Redden made out in his 1,000th career NHL game.
The National Hockey League’s director of officiating says the league has not changed the standard for what constitutes a goaltender interference penalty.
Nicklas Backstrom has spent the past five seasons as the set-up man for Alexander Ovechkin. He has scored at a point-per-game pace during his NHL career, topped the 100 point mark in 2009-10 and is widely considered as one of the top centres in the world.
For all that, he’s not even the biggest hockey name in his hometown of Gavle, Sweden, population 71,000.
As they boarded the plane on Wednesday, the Senators had sunshine in the forecast.
Jakob Silfverberg’s first NHL goal and Paul MacLean’s lookalike seated directly behind the Senators bench at Monday’s opening game at Scotiabank Place.
In the big picture of Monday’s 4-0 victory, Jakob Silfverberg’s first NHL goal wasn’t vital to the team’s victory – it was the fourth and final goal with 1:04 remaining – but it definitely took some pressure off the rookie Swede. He passed off the credit to Jason Spezza and Milan Michalek for their work on the boards, setting him up.