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Sense: Eight players recalled from Belleville to protect regulars
Marc-Olivier Cook
Sense: Eight players recalled from Belleville to protect regulars
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The Ottawa Senators have two games left before the official start of their season: tomorrow against the St. Louis Blues, and Saturday night in Montreal against the Canadiens. Will we see a rematch of yesterday's game at the Bell Centre on Saturday? At the moment, that's the question on many fans' lips… But clearly, the Senators aren't interested in seeing their star players shuffled around – either tomorrow or Saturday. Because the fact is, the club has recalled eight players (!) from Belleville, and it's logical to believe that these guys could play Saturday night in Montreal. The Senators played dirty last night, they got humiliated… and now the solution is to bring in some AHL guys to play even dirtier on Saturday? Eh boy…

Considering that these players will be in uniform, it could be a lot of shuffling.

The Sens clearly know that the Canadiens players are going to want to bring a physical game to the ice, and by recalling players who won't be playing in the NHL this season, they seem to really want to protect their regulars. And the Senators are sending out a pretty clear message too: you can shuffle us around… but we're going to have less important players to shuffle you around too. That's promising, in any case. Because if there's as much emotion on the ice as there was last night in Saturday's game, it could get out of hand pretty easily too. The Habs' plan was to have a full line-up, and they'll have to be careful not to fall into the trap and let things get out of hand. Let's just hope it doesn't turn into a nightmare… and wonder whether the Canadiens will decide to do as the Sens did and protect their star players.

'Overtime'

– Good deal.

– He's got the tools to make it happen

– Can't wait to see him in action.

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