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Hammond over Anderson
Yesterday, the Ottawa Senators were mum on who’d start in goal for tonight’s key tilt against Detroit.
This morning, they made it official -- Hamburglar gets the nod.
Andrew Hammond will return to the net for the first time since getting shellacked in a 5-1 loss to the Rangers last week; Craig Anderson, who started consecutive losses to Toronto and Florida over the weekend, will revert to backup status... for now.
It remains to be seen what head coach Dave Cameron will do for the remaining seven games of the regular season. Ottawa’s in a dogfight with Boston for the last wild card spot in the Eastern Conference and, at least for now, he’s going with Hammond, who has just one regulation loss in 17 appearances this season.
For Detroit, Petr Mrazek will start tonight -- a decision that’s equally as compelling as the one in Ottawa. For more on that, click here.
Elsewhere...
Panthers at Bruins: Roberto Luongo vs. Tuukka Rask
‘Canes at Caps: Cam Ward vs. Braden Holtby
Devils at Jackets: Cory Schneider vs. Sergei Bobrovsky
Bolts at Leafs: Andrei Vasilevskiy (probable) vs. James Reimer
Canucks at Preds: Eddie Lack (apparently) vs. Pekka Rinne
Rangers at Jets: Henrik Lundqvist vs. Ondrej Pavelec