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The Buffalo Sabres are fine with close games, as long as they keep winning them. Chris Drury had a goal and an assist and Daniel Briere had two assists to help Buffalo extend its season-opening winning streak to three with a 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. Jason Pominville, who scored the overtime winner that eliminated Ottawa from the playoffs last season, benefited from...

Paul Maurice got his first win as Toronto's new coach by sticking with a game plan that came up short one night earlier. Chad Kilger and Darcy Tucker each scored two goals and Andrew Raycroft made 34 saves for his first shutout with the Maple Leafs, leading Toronto to a 6-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.

Martin Gerber looked solid as Ottawa's new goalie, and the Senators skated off with yet another win over Toronto. Gerber made 33 saves, and the Senators won 4-1 in the season opener on Wednesday night. Patrick Eaves, Chris Neil, Cristoph Schubert and Daniel Alfredsson scored for the Senators, who lost top players Zdeno Chara and Martin Havlat in the offseason.

The head of the NHL Players' Association says a lawsuit filed by a group of dissident players is baseless. "The claims issued in the complaint are the same claims that have been made repeatedly over the last 13 months by this tiny group," union executive director Ted Saskin told The Canadian Press in an interview Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Ticker) - SportsTicker recently obstructed Ottawa Senators right wing Chris Neil and held him long enough to ask the following questions:

Alex Kovalev scored his second goal of the third period with 1:52 remaining to give the Montreal Canadiens a 6-5 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night in the final preseason game for both teams. Inserted between Kovalev and Sergei Samsonov in the wake of center Mike Ribeiro's trade to Dallas prior to the game, Tomas Plekanec set up the tying goal by Samsonov with 4:44 remaining in...

Andrej Meszaros scored twice and Daniel Alfredsson had three assists, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 exhibition victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night. Meszaros scored both goals on shots from the point, beating David Aebischer with 1:13 left in the first and putting another long drive past the goalie on a power play 5:43 into the second to make it 4-1.

Mike Fisher scored a goal and had three assists to help the Ottawa Senators beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3 in a preseason game Wednesday night. Chris Neil, Daniel Alfredsson, Peter Schaefer and Dean McAmmond also scored for the Senators, who tallied the first three goals of the game. Aleksander Suglovob, Bryan McCabe and Matt Stajan had goals for the Maple Leafs.

OTTAWA (Ticker) - SportsTicker recently obstructed Ottawa Senators goaltender Ray Emery and held him long enough to ask the following questions:

Chris Higgins and Guillaume Latendresse each scored twice Monday night in the Canadiens' 7-3 pounding of the Ottawa Senators that gave Montreal its first preseason win in five games. Andrei Kostitsyn, Jonathan Ferland and Kyle Chipchura also scored for Montreal (1-4-0). Jason Spezza scored twice and Dany Heatley once for Ottawa (3-3-0).

Chris Kelly, Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza scored power-play goals in an 8:35 span in the second and third periods to give the Ottawa Senators a 3-2 exhibition win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday night. Kelly pulled the Senators (3-2) within a goal with 2:31 left in the second, Heatley tied it at 4:51 of the third and Spezza added the winner at 6:04.

Mike Fisher scored the second of his two goals on a short-handed breakaway with 1:57 left in the third period to give the Ottawa Senators a 4-3 exhibition victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. Philadelphia's Simon Gagne had tied it with 3:54 to go with a shot from in close on a power play after Ottawa's Denis Hamel and Chris Neil scored power-play goals in a 1:53 span to give the...

OTTAWA (Ticker) - Joe Corvo likely will not be making his debut with the Ottawa Senators anytime soon.

Thomas Vanek scored three goals to offset Denis Hamel's natural hat trick for Ottawa as the Buffalo Sabres beat the Senators 4-3 on Friday night in an exhibition game. Hamel, a 29-year-old left wing battling for a roster spot with the Senators after leading the AHL in goals last season with 56, scored three straight times in a 3:22 span of the second period.

OTTAWA (Ticker) - Luckily for the Ottawa Senators, Daniel Alfredsson's exit from Wednesday's preseason game was only for precautionary reasons.

Brad Brown scored early in the third period to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Ottawa Senators 3-1 in exhibition play Wednesday night. Bates Battaglia and Andy Wozniewski also scored for the Maple Leafs, coming off a 4-0 loss to Buffalo on Monday night in their preseason opener. Mikael Tellqvist made 33 saves for Toronto, and free-agent newcomer Michael Peca had a pair of assists.

Sidney Crosby's return home didn't go as well as planned. In a building where he was often jeered as a junior, the 19-year-old phenom was cheered Tuesday night and treated like a forgiven hero. Crosby, who grew up mere miles from the Halifax Metro Centre, had a goal and assist in his first pro game in his hometown, but the Pittsburgh Penguins lost their preseason opener 5-2 to the Ottawa Senators.

OTTAWA (Ticker) - The Ottawa Senators added depth at forward Wednesday, signing left wing Dean McAmmond and center Serge Payer to one-year contracts. Financial terms were not disclosed.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Ticker) - The National Hockey League Players' Association announced Monday that Daniel Alfredsson of the Ottawa Senators has been re-elected as a vice president on the interim executive committee.