Dreadfully sorry for my absence lately. I don't have a real excuse, but my head definitely was elsewhere.
I can't speak for Overpass's reasons for not being around, but here are the rosters for both teams:
GUARDS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Assistant GM: Tater the Pug
Head Coach: Punch Imlach
Captain: Sidney Crosby
Alternate: Valeri Vasiliev
Alternate: George Armstrong
Daniel Sedin - Sidney Crosby - Bill Cook
Tommy Phillips - Ron Francis - Didier Pitre
Jiri Holik - Vladimir Shadrin - George Armstrong
Ray Getliffe - Fleming MacKell - Phil Watson
Bill Gadsby - Valeri Vasiliev
Ken Reardon - Eric Desjardins
Flash Hollett - Terry Harper
Ed Belfour
Chuck Rayner
Todd Bertuzzi, Ken Randall, Vasili Pervukhin, SP
PP1:
Cook
Francis - Crosby - Hollett
Gadsby
PP2:
Phillips
Pitre - Sedin - Watson
Reardon
PK1:
Holik - MacKell
Vasiliev - Desjardins
PK2:
Shadrin - Armstrong
Gadsby - Harper
Ottawa Senators
Coach: Glen Sather
Assistant Coach: Frank Boucher
Captain: Scott Stevens
Alternates: Gordie Howe, Henri Richard
Forwards
Joe Malone -
Darryl Sittler -
Gordie Howe (A)
Paul Thompson -
Henri Richard (A) -
Theo Fleury
Brad Marchand -
Neil Colville -
Alexander Mogilny
Rusty Crawford -
Dave Poulin -
Rene Robert
John Tavares,
Jack Darragh
Defence
Scott Stevens (C) -
Larry Murphy
Babe Pratt -
Art Coulter
Glen Harmon -
Alex Pietrangelo
Hamby Shore
Goaltender
Vladislav Tretiak
Curtis Joseph
Powerplay
Darryl Sittler - Joe Malone - Alexander Mogilny
Babe Pratt - Gordie Howe
Paul Thompson - Henri Richard - Theo Fleury
Larry Murphy - Rene Robert
Penalty Kill
Rusty Crawford - Dave Poulin - Gordie Howe
Scott Stevens
Brad Marchand - Neil Colville - Theo Fleury
Art Coulter
A few interesting matchups:
- Can my grinding wingers (Armstrong, Holik) trying to contain Malone and Howe to some degree?
- Stevens and Cook battling in front of the net is going to be fantastic.
- Same with Crosby and Richard (I imagine that's what Overpass would want)
I hope to get some line-by line comparisons in this evening.