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Daniel Alfredsson had two goals and an assist and Filip Kuba had a goal and three assists to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 5-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.

The Ottawa Senators seek a season high-tying third straight victory tonight in a matchup with the Buffalo Sabres at Scotiabank Place.

Penguins Fall To Senators, 6-2 Share + Nov 19, 2009 11:39 pm US/Eastern Penguins Fall To Senators, 6-2 OTTAWA 1 of 1 Chris Phillips #4 of the Ottawa Senators handles the puck against the Tampa Bay Lightning during a game at Scotiabank Place on October 15, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada.

For 799 career games with the Ottawa Senators, Chris Phillips has earned a reputation as one of the NHL's steadiest defenders -- not flashy, but capable of shutting down a top scorer.

Mike Fisher scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal in the second period, and the Ottawa Senators beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 Tuesday night.

The Battle of Ontario isn't exactly dead. It is merely comatose, dormant like a once mighty volcano, capable of erupting again, possibly as early as tonight when the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs meet at Scotiabank Place.

Ottawa Senators goaltender Pascal Leclaire lets in a goal by the Philadelphia Flyers during the second period of NHL ice hockey action in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 12, 2009.

After a good start, the Senators are spinning their wheels. With Saturday's 3-2 loss, their record slipped to 7-5-2 and they dropped to ninth in the Eastern Conference standings.

Daniel Alfredsson could have passed as a Maple Leaf. Following Saturday's big gag, the Senators captain looked like he had been raked.

The Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning have split their games so far this season.

THE STORY: If the Ottawa Senators are playing the Tampa Bay Lightning, someone's probably going to get a beating.

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Sunday was a day off for the Ottawa Senators, time for reflection about how lucky breaks, weird bounces and good and bad results tend to even themselves out over the course of time.

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

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.

Is the romance between Ottawa and Alexei Kovalev already on the rocks? Just nine games into his first season as a Senator, the stress cracks were showing.

SUNRISE, Fla. - As his teammates' equipment bags were being packed up Tuesday for the club's two-game road trip to Florida, Erik Karlsson's gear sat alone and untouched in the middle of the locker-room. When he emerged from a meeting with Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray several minutes later, he knew why.

Defencemen Alex Picard and Matt Carkner were in recovery mode yesterday. Trying to forget what can only be described as a brutal night by the duo in Ottawa's 6-5 OT loss to the Predators on Thursday, Picard and Carkner have to put the mess behind them and move on with the Bruins in town tonight at Scotiabank Place.

There will be changes to the lineup tonight as the Ottawa Senators try to rebound from their 6-5 overtime loss to the Nashville Predators, but it looks as if they will come because of injury and illness.

So, just where does crazy stop and weird take over? "Just a weird, weird game," said Senators centre Jason Spezza.