A point saved is a point earned.
Robin Lehner is devoting some extra time to shootouts and other news and notes from the Senators.
Robin Lehner was in no mood to celebrate the 42 saves he made in regulation and overtime against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
An RDS report late Wednesday suggested that injured Ottawa Senators Jason Spezza could need more time than expected to return from his back disc surgery and could still be out for another month, but Senators coach Paul MacLean says he was unaware of anything new development in his recovery.
MONTREAL – Robin Lehner will make his third consecutive start in goal for the Ottawa Senators here Wednesday night as the Senators attempt to chip away at the gap between them and the Eastern Conference leading Montreal Canadiens.
A running joke Tuesday was that Kaspars Daugavins was a leading candidate to become the new Pope.
After all, his name was everywhere you turned on the Internet. Hockey traditionalists were outraged at Daugavins, suggesting the Ottawa Senators left winger broke some type of Cardinal sin within the hockey world for his unique shootout attempt in Monday’s 3-2 loss to the Boston Bruins.
Welcome to the cyberspace spotlight, Kaspars Daugavins.
For a guy who has scored exactly zero goals in 17 games this season, the Senators fourth line winger was trending all over the hockey world late Monday night and early Tuesday morning for his unique – and ultimately failed – shootout attempt during the Senators’ 3-2 shootout loss to the Boston Bruins.