PLAYOFF GAMEDAY - GAME FIVE - SENATORS

7:00 PM

Penguins Lead Series 3-1

 

 

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Know the Enemy:

The 6th Sens

Five for Smiting

 

 

Tonight this could all be over.
One game.

60 minutes.

We could see the last of Chris Neil and Andy Sutton and Jason Spezza.

We could be done with the Senators once more.
We could shake their hands on our home ice and give Lady Mellon another victory.

 

Or we could end up going back to Ottawa.

 

This isn't over.

It takes four wins to advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

We only have three.

 

That means we have to beat the Senators one more time.

We have to skate faster than them, we have to hit harder than them and we have to score more often than them.

We cannot be complacent with our position.

We cannot let them back into this series.

We need a killer instinct.

We need to finish them off.

We need a burial.

 

 

 

 

 

Pascal Leclaire will start in goal for Ottawa.

 

Jonathan Cheechoo is back out and Shean Donovan is in.

 

Daniel Alfredsson once again missed practice.

 

Proposed Senators line combinations:

 

Peter Regin - Jason Spezza - Daniel Alfredsson
Matt Cullen - Mike Fisher - Nick Foligno
Jarkko Ruutu - Chris Kelly - Chris Neil
Jesse Winchester - Zack Smith - Shean Donovan

Chris Phillips - Anton Volchenkov
Andy Sutton - Erik Karlsson
Chris Campoli - Matt Carkner

Pascal Leclaire

 

 

 

Tyler Kennedy is day-to-day and will likely not play tonight.
Ruslan Fedotenko will take his spot in the lineup.

 

Proposed Penguins line combinations:

 

Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Bill Guerin
Alexei Ponikarovsky - Evgeni Malkin - Pascal Dupuis
Matt Cooke - Jordan Staal - Ruslan Fedotenko
Mike Rupp - Max Talbot - Craig Adams

Brooks Orpik - Sergei Gonchar
Mark Eaton - Alex Goligoski
Jay McKee - Kris Letang

Marc-Andre Fleury