When we made Tough choices, then a tough situation would appear

When we made Tough choices, then a tough situation would appear

Clouston singled out defenceman Eric Gryba who liked team usa jersey very much for his strong, physical play, but it may not be enough to keep Gryba in Ottawa. While the Senators were technically the “home” team — the public-address announcer labelled them the Dundas Senators at one point — there was a Sabres flavour to the crowd, hardly surprising that considering Buffalo is only a hour’s drive away. The Sabres also featured a few more star NHL players in capitals jerseys than the Senators, who left their top two lines and top four defencemen at home.

With the Senators on the power play and Lehner behind his own net, he passed the puck directly to Buffalo’s Rob Niedermayer, who slid the puck into the vacated net wearing usa team jersey. Most of those absent Tuesday will be in the lineup at Scotiabank Place for Wednesday night’s game against the Maple Leafs. Then there was the ice surface, 190 feet long by 80 feet wide: 10 feet shorter and five feet narrower than a regulation NHL rink. “It’s tight, it’s a different kind of game,” Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said before the game with bobby orr jersey. “We’ll be able to see battles in small spaces and it will be tough to get pucks to the net. There won’t be a lot of room to make a lot of plays.” Ruff was right.

Factor in that the Sabres lineup boasted Tyler Myers (6-8, 227 pounds), Shaone Morrisonn (6-4, 210 pounds) and the Senators featured Matt Carkner (6-4, 226 pounds), Gryba (6-4, 222 pounds) and Wiercioch (6-4, 185 pounds) and hitting was unavoidable. While it was small-town hockey, there was also a hint of the big business of the NHL. When Commissioner Gary Bettman in a cam neely jersey was introduced before the game, he was greeted with boos. Much of the anger stemmed from his efforts to keep Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie wearing tyler myers jersey from buying the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes franchise and bringing that franchise to Hamilton.

The small-rink atmosphere added an intriguing new element to preseason National Hockey League action here Tuesday, but it still added up to an agonizing night for more than a dozen Ottawa Senators hopefuls with michael cammalleri jersey after a 2-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres. With the Senators prepared to ship several players to Corner Brook, N.L., site of training camp for the American Hockey League’s Binghamton Senators training camp on Wednesday — coach Cory Clouston in a jaroslav halak jersey said the total will be “14, give or take a few” — Tuesday’s game was the last several of them will see of the NHL for a while, if not the rest of the season.

Lehner, however, kept the Senators in the game, stopping Zack Kassian wearing martin brodeur jersey on a 2-on-1 break following a terrible giveaway by Wiercioch at the Sabres’ blue-line. Before the period was out, Lehner also stopped Travis Turnbull on a breakaway. Lehner was also solid in the second and third periods until Jason Pominville beat him on a partial breakaway for the winning goal with 8:35 remaining. “I had a brutal goal, the first one and I just tried to bounce back from that,” said Lehner, with john tavares jersey, who realized a dream by playing against Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller. “You have to be mentally strong to play here, and I think I did that. I had a couple of good saves, and the team played really well, I think.”

Wiercioch in a wayne gretzky jersey showcased his offensive side, tying the game 1-1 with 12.7 seconds left in the second period, beating Miller high on the glove side. “You have to show them that you want to be here, that you’re willing to work for that spot on the team and that you can probably do something on the team that another guy can’t right now.” Goaltender Robin Lehner and defenceman Patrick Wiercioch wearing daniel alfredsson jersey made the decisions tougher. Both made glaring mistakes, but bounced back and should survive at least another few days in Ottawa. Lehner, whose only previous pre-season game was a 5-0 shutout of the Toronto Maple Leafs a week earlier, only had himself to blame for the end of the shutout streak in the first period.