After a day off, the Buffalo Sabres are traveling to Ottawa today to face the Senators for the first meeting of the season between these two divisional foes. Ottawa is off to a fine start, despite an injury to Jason Spezza, and is led by goalie Craig Anderson and his 1.12 GAA. After a few poor efforts from the team in front of him Ryan Miller’s GAA is a bloated 3.11, for comparison’s sake, so the Sabres will have to somehow reverse those two numbers if they want any chance of winning.
Game #10 – Buffalo Sabres (3-5-1) vs. Ottawa Senators (5-3-1)
Puck Drop – 7:30pm – Scotiabank Place – Ottawa, ON
TV – MSG — Radio – WGR 550-AM
Senators Blog – Silver Seven (Please play nice if you’re going to visit.)
Pardy Up, Might Someone Sit?
The Sabres recalled Adam Pardy yesterday from the Rochester Americans to help along the blue line. Pardy is off to a very solid start in the AHL, and with Andrej Sekera and Robyn Regehr still out for Buffalo, Pardy may simply be insurance, or he may provide Lindy Ruff an opportunity to sit one of his many struggling defenseman.
Buffalo Lines*
Vanek – Hodgson – Pominville
Ott – Grigorenko – Stafford
Foligno – Ennis – Hecht
Scott – Ellis – McCormick
Myers – Leopold
Ehrhoff – Sulzer
Brennan – Weber
Goal: Ryan Miller
Scratches/Injuries: Leino, Regehr, Sekera, Kaleta, Gerbe, Pardy
*Subject to change
Ottawa Lines*
Michalek-Turris-Alfredsson
O’Brien-Zibanejad-Silfverberg
Greening-Regin-Condra
Daugavins-Smith-Neil
Methot-Karlsson
Gonchar-Wiercioch
Phillips-Benoit
Goal: Craig Anderson
*A guess from our friends at Silver Seven