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It didn't look good after the Senators were outshot and mostly outplayed in a first period that saw the Sabres take a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Thomas Vanek.

The Sens' Mike Fisher celebrates his second goal of the game with Chris Campoli, left, and Brian Lee.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to end a three-game slide tonight when they visit the Ottawa Senators at Scotiabank Place in another edition of the Battle of Ontario.

Ranger goalie Henrik Lundqvist stops a shot by Alex Kovalev in the shootout period as the Ottawa Senators met the New York Rangers in NHL action at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa , November 14, 2009.

Pierre Parenteau scored the deciding goal in the seventh round of the shootout to give the New York Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

The Ottawa Senators are facing goalie Ray Emery for the first time since sending him packing to Russia.

In late October, Pascal Leclaire was a shadow of his former self, dropping a good 10 pounds while fighting the flu.

Ottawa Senators' Jason Spezza slips the puck past Edmonton Oilers goalie Jeff Deslauriers to win their NHL hockey game in a shootout in Ottawa November 10, 2009.

The Devils are 8-0 away from New Jersey, the second-longest road winning streak to open a season in NHL history.

Zach Parise and David Clarkson each had a goal and an assist on the power play, and the New Jersey Devils won their eighth straight road game with a 3-2 comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

Off-Broadway loses biographical plays about a famed American politician and a Brooklyn-bred hip hop artist.

About half of the Ottawa Senators went to the Metallica concert on Tuesday night, led by one of the heavy-metal banda s biggest fans, Jarkko Ruutu.

Pascal Leclaire thought he had the swine flu. "The worst, in my case, was last weekend.

On the bright side, at least nobody said, "this is a men's league and he's still a boy." With greater sensitivity than Jason Spezza encountered years ago, the Senators demoted Erik Karlsson to AHL Binghamton on Tuesday, triggering the kind of emotional response usually associated with a bubble player at training camp.

SENATORS' EFFORT 5/10 THE GAME The Ottawa Senators might be content to just write this one off.

Defenseman Erik Karlsson is apparently not a happy camper right now. The Ottawa Senators prospect, who has three assists through nine games this season, is heading to Binghamton to play with the American League's Sens; not exactly the destination he was hoping for when he came over from Sweden this summer.

Senators defenceman Anton Volchenkov is expected to be lost to the club for at least a couple of weeks after suffering an elbow injury in Wednesday's 4-3 victory over the Florida Panthers.

Make that two first-round draft picks along the Binghamton blue line, and potentially, a new weapon for that struggling power play.

The Senators must decide in the next day or so what they will do with promising rookie D Erik Karlsson.

Fritsche helped save the win, but he could have a broken nose. - Syracuse forward Kevin Harvey is hurting, too, after his first-period scrap with Tim Spencer.