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Game Day: Ducks @ Senators - Brown cut from Team USA |
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There is one piece of business to take care of before the Senators leave for their Christmas break - a home date with the Anaheim Ducks.
Ottawa is coming in off a very solid effort against the Chicago Blackhawks, right in the United Center. While it is always difficult to predict what effort will come from this final game before a break, the Ducks are in the same situation but they have the added factor that they are finishing up a six game road trip that began right after they downed the Senators 5-1.
The Ducks have been up and down in the first five games of this trip, allowing 5 or more goals in each of their 3 losses, including their last outing in Montreal on Tuesday. a 5-1 loss to the Habs.
Including the Ottawa game where they went 3 for 4, the Ducks power play has been leading the way, going 8 for 22 in their last 6 outings.
Ottawa will be looking to head into the break on a winning note, and extending their current three game winning streak to four. Also on the line is Bobby Ryan's four game goal streak (it is nice to be able to write that for the first time in a long time) as well as Derick Brassard's three game streak.
If things go the Senators' way tonight, they could be heading into the break firmly entrenched in second place in the Atlantic Division, with a six point lead over third place. Certainly not a gap that they can put their feet up and rest on, but certainly a positive position from which to enter the post-Christmas festivities.
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Senators fans will have one less reason to tune into the World Junior championships, as 2016 first rounder Logan Brown was one of the final cuts from Team USA this morning. He joins returnee Alex DeBrincat as perhaps surprising players who will be on the outside looking in.
Brown has had injury problems with a bad wrist and has barely played in the last month and a half or so, and apparently the rust had something to do with his demise from the team. He was expected by many to be a big contributor in this tournament
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