Leevi Merilainen's fall from Senators saviour to waiver wire is complete

1 day ago 5

Article content

“Maybe a team that has injury issues, but there will be other goalies waived on the weekend,” another league executive said Thursday.

Article content

For now, the Senators have made their decision.

Article content

Merilainen’s path back to the NHL starts with clearing waivers and rebuilding his game in Belleville. Based on what he has shown over the last year, that’s work that can’t begin soon enough.

Article content

There were very few surprises among those who skated under the watchful eye of coach Travis Green during a lengthy practice at the Canadian Tire Centre.

Article content

He’s now focused on trying to get this group ready to start the regular season against the Leafs on Oct. 3 at Scotiabank Arena. At the end of the skate, Green told the players that “details matter.”

Article content

Do it right in practice and, the belief is, you’ll do it right in games.

Article content

“Part of it is getting their brains working again, and up and running, and part of it is execution. Part of it is skill level,” Green said.

Article content

How the two groups skated on Thursday

Article content

Ottawa Senators

Article content

30 Sam Ersson G

Article content

35 Linus Ullmark G

Article content

2 Artem Zub D

Article content

5 Cameron Crotty D

Article content

10 Jordan Spence D

Article content

12 Shane Pinto C

Article content

18 Tim Stützle C

Article content

19 Drake Batherson RW

Article content

20 Fabian Zetterlund RW

Article content

21 Nick Cousins F

Article content

22 Michael Amadio RW

Article content

23 Kurtis MacDermid LW

Article content

24 Dylan Cozens C

Article content

26 Carter Yakemchuk D

Article content

27 William Eklund LW

Article content

28 Claude Giroux RW

Article content

33 Nikolas Matinpalo D

Article content

34 Stephen Halliday C

Article content

37 Warren Foegele LW

Article content

42 Hayden Hodgson RW

Article content

43 Tyler Kleven D

Article content

45 Ben Hutton D

Article content

58 Samuel Bolduc D

Article content

62 Philip Tomasino RW

Article content

71 Ridly Greig C

Article content

72 Thomas Chabot LD

Article content

73 Hoyt Stanley RD

Article content

76 Djibril Toure RD

Article content

79 Samuel Blais LW

Article content

85 Jake Sanderson D

Article content

95 Andre Burakovsky LW

Article content

Belleville Senators

Article content

Goalies: Leevi Merilainen, Jackson Parsons, Kevin Reider, Vadim Zherenko

Article content

Defence: Christian Kyrou, Cal Uens, Scott Harrington, Gabriel Eliasson, Matthew Andonovski, Tomas Hamara

Article content

Forwards: Ryan Suzuki, Jaxon Cover, Louis-Felix Bourque, Adam Nemec, Xavier Bourgault, Tyler Boucher, Blake Montgomery, Luke Mistelbacher, Oskar Pettersson, Esklid Bakke Olsen, Kaspar Halttunen, Lucas Ellinas, Phillipe Daoust, Blake Vanek.

Article content

Injured

Article content

Artem Zub, D, Kurtis MacDermid LW, Warren Foegele LW, Jorian Donovan D, Jake Sanderson D and Jordan Spence D

Article content

*** Disclaimer: This Article is auto-aggregated by a Rss Api Program and has not been created or edited by Bdtype.

(Note: This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News Rss Api. News.bdtype.com Staff may not have modified or edited the content body.

Please visit the Source Website that deserves the credit and responsibility for creating this content.)

Watch Live | Source Article