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Puck Headlines: Hopefully not symbolic of the Capitals' season (Yahoo! Sports) 10/06/08

Here are your Morning Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest...

Opening in Europe: Ensuring the NHL's irrelevancy in the U.S. (Yahoo! Sports) 10/06/08

For the fifth time in its history, the NHL played regular season games outside of North America as the...

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Senators Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) 10/06/08

It's too early for another goaltending controversy to be taking any serious roots in Ottawa. But seeds for one were certainly planted in Sweden.

A day after Martin Gerber cost the team a point by allowing three bad goals in a 4-3 overtime loss, Alex Auld stopped 30 shots in his debut as a Senator for the team's first win.

Auld was particularly sharp in the second period, kicking aside 15 Pittsburgh Penguin chances. He lost his shutout bid with two seconds left in the game.

Auld, who was signed in the off season to replace Ray Emery and serve as Gerber's backup, is a 27-year-old veteran who has had success as the last line of defense on a solid team. Gerber, who is in the last year of a three-year free agent contract, has never found in Canada the form he showed as...

Sunday's three stars: Heatley off to a fast start (Yahoo! Sports) 10/06/08

No. 1 star: Dany Heatley, Ottawa Senators The talented left wing has set out this season to prove he's more than...

Senators RW Alfredsson revels in perfect night (PA SportsTicker) 10/05/08

Two assists and a victory.

Heatley scores 2 more, Senators shine in Sweden (AP) 10/05/08

This was hardly a routine win for Daniel Alfredsson. Playing an NHL regular-season game in his native Sweden and skating off with his Ottawa Senators teammates after a satisfying victory could be a once-in-a-lifetime event. "This is an experience that I'll always remember and which I'm going to rank among the highlights in my career," Alfredsson said after helping the Senators to a 3-1 win over the...

Saturday's three stars: Welcome to the new season (Yahoo! Sports) 10/04/08

No. 1 star: Tyler Kennedy, Pittsburgh Penguins With all the offensive stars dotting the roster of the defending...

Pittsburgh beats Ottawa 4-3 in OT (AP) 10/04/08

Tyler Kennedy spoiled Daniel Alfredsson's homecoming. Kennedy scored his second goal with 25 seconds left in overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Ottawa Senators, 4-3 in the first NHL regular-season opener in Sweden on Saturday night. Alfredsson, Ottawa's captain who holds the Senators' career mark in games played (854), goals (331), assists (516) and points (847), was held pointless...

Senators C Fisher out for weekend series (PA SportsTicker) 10/04/08

Ottawa Senators center Mike Fisher will miss this weekend's season-opening series against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Puck Daddy's NHL opening day live blog (Yahoo! Sports) 10/04/08

"The Rangers playing in Prague, but without Jagr, would be like going forward with the wedding while the...

Four teams to open NHL regular season in Europe (AP) 10/03/08

Sidney Crosby will lead a new-look Pittsburgh team in front of a new audience Saturday when the NHL starts its season in two European cities. The Penguins hope it won't be the same mediocre start they've had in recent seasons. "In the last couple of years we probably didn't start amazing, but decent enough to stay with the pack," Crosby said ahead of two season-opening games against the Ottawa...

Bruins reject rumors that C Savard is on the block (SportingNews.com) 10/03/08

Forget it: Boston Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli says center Marc Savard is not on the trade market. But that doesn't mean the Bruins aren't sniffing for deals.

NHL continues expansion of European presence (AP) 10/02/08

The NHL is giving two more countries a first look at regular-season games this weekend, and it's a sight Europeans should be getting used to. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday that the season-opening doubleheaders in the Czech and Swedish capitals Saturday and Sunday "are hopefully ushering an era of a more permanent presence for the league (in Europe)." While the NHL is still far away...

Alfredsson returns home as a winner with Ottawa (AP) 10/02/08

Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson scored one goal and set up another against his former team in his hometown Thursday, and the Senators beat the Frolunda Indians 4-1 in a preseason game. Jason Spezza also had a goal and an assist for Ottawa, which opens the NHL regular season with a double header against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Swedish capital of Stockholm this weekend.

Penguins beat Jokerit 4-1 in preseason game (AP) 10/02/08

Sidney Crosby set up three goals in leading the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-1 win over Finnish club Jokerit in a preseason game Thursday. Evgeni Malkin and Ruslan Fedotenko scored first-period goals for Pittsburgh and Tyler Kennedy and Pascal Dupuis added two more in the third. It was the Penguins' last exhibition before playing the Ottawa Senators in a season-opening double header in Stockholm,...

Power Poll: Gotta go Red Wings for preseason No. 1 (SportingNews.com) 10/02/08

There's a temptation to pick a team other than the Detroit Red Wings as the preseason No.

Ten things to watch for this NHL season (Yahoo! Sports) 10/02/08

If recent trends hold, don't expect to see the favorite Red Wings or Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Khabibulin could become the greatest goaltender in KHL history (Yahoo! Sports) 10/02/08

We touched on this in the live rumors chat yesterday, and now it appears the MSM has picked up on the...

Puck Headlines: Senators opt for Darth Gerber over Khabibulin (Yahoo! Sports) 09/30/08

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Penguins' Gonchar could miss up to six months (Yahoo! Sports) 09/30/08

The Pittsbrugh Penguins will go through much of the 2008-09 regular season without their two best offensive...

The Blackhawks are waiving goodbye to the Bulin Wall (Yahoo! Sports) 09/29/08

When Nikolai Khabibulin was scratched from what was expected to be his preseason debut on Sunday, the obvious...

Not a pretty picture (Yahoo! Sports) 09/29/08

Vancouver needs all the help they can get including, a Superman-like showing from goalie Roberto Luongo.

Senators re-sign D Richardson (PA SportsTicker) 09/27/08

Luke Richardson finally has some security.

Sens win final preseason game before Sweden (AP) 09/27/08

Daniel Alfredsson scored Ottawa's final goal to lead the Senators to a 3-1 exhibition victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night. Nick Foligno and Chris Neil also scored for Ottawa, and Martin Gerber made 18 saves after Montreal scored its only goal on the first shot of the game. Kyle Chipchura gave the Canadiens a quick lead when he beat Gerber between the pads 35 seconds in with a...

Season Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning, Class of '08-'09 (Yahoo! Sports) 09/27/08

NHL previews are often superfluous collections of popular opinions that, in the end, usually have no relation...

Ottawa Senators 2008-09 team preview (SportingNews.com) 09/27/08

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Can Lightning strike again? (Yahoo! Sports) 09/27/08

Tampa Bay could either be the surprise of its division or sink, but the Lightning will have a new look either way.

Halak gets shutout in Habs' win over Senators (AP) 09/26/08

Andrei Kostitsyn and Andrei Markov both had a goal and two assists, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 21 shots in the Montreal Canadiens' 5-0 preseason victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night. Halak, who is likely to serve as the backup to No. 1 goalie Carey Price, turned aside seven shots in a scoreless first period.

Ottawa's new system designed to prevent goals (Yahoo! Sports) 09/26/08

Firewagon hockey? The days of the Ottawa Senators taking the risk of trading chances with the likes of the...