Sens at Land’s End

Today’s game featuring the Senators and the New York Rangers is a matinee: a noon start for those of us living where the mountains meet the ocean. Other notable facts about today’s game:

• This will be Wade Redden’s first regular season game in Ottawa since leaving the Sens.
• The Sens will be “back in black,” as they unveil their new black third jerseys to the world. With their new moustaches also in tow, the Sens should look like a particularly silly scary biker gang on skates.
• Members of the Ottawa Bloggers Collective will, for the first time ever, attempt a joint live game blog. Confirmed participants include Dany Heatley Speedwagon and Sherry of Scarlett Ice, Al from Hockeyschlock, The Universal Cynic, and myself. No word yet from Senators Lost Cojones — he may still be in his rage coma after last game. Head over to this post at Scarlett Ice if you feel like joining the fun! Well … hopefully it’ll be fun. Go Sens!

I have plenty of schoolwork I could be doing, but there’s just so much hockey today. I’m giving a look to the first period of the Canucks-Penguins game, then obviously the Sens game, then I’ll watch the Blue Jackets — quickly becoming my second favourite team — take on the Thrashers, and then perhaps Detroit-Calgary or Washington-San Jose.

Ahhh, Saturday.

Edit: Wow … less than a minute into the first at Vancouver-Pittsburgh and there’s already been a line brawl after Matt Cooke put a low hit on Alexander Edler. ‘Tis clearly a good day for hockey.