Senators Weather Second Period to Win 3-2 over the Canucks

A recap of the Thursday game between the Sens and Canucks.It was an interesting lead-up to an Ottawa Senators game. The team was third in the Atlantic, with games in hand on all but one of the five teams chasing them. And yet, people were highly upset about a team that allowed far too many shots and was depending on its goaltending to win. The complaints were amplified by the scratchings of stats darlings Patrick Wiercioch and Shane Prince for Chris Wideman and Matt Puempel respectively. Both unscratched players probably deserved to be in the lineup, but not for the guys they took out. To compound things, Bob McKenzie told TSN 1200 that Ottawa was willing to deal a defenceman who wasn't Erik Karlsson for a top-six forward, as if that would somehow shore up the shots allowed. People suddenly had visions of Wiercioch being traded for Bryan Bickell.

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