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What looked like a routine check by D Jay Boumeester of Florida Thursday night turned into another headache for the Senators' star defenceman Wade Redden. He suffered a shoulder/chest strain and is expected to miss at least the next two games. This after Redden was battling groin injuries since training camp but now seemed to be 100% healthy. He tried coming back too early from his groin problems and made it worse, and it's no coincidence while the Senators were struggling, Redden was not in the lineup. There's no sense in rushing him back with 2/3 of the season left to play, but here's hoping for a quick recovery. The boys have some confidence and are on a roll (7 wins in their last 8 games) so hopefully this won't be as big a blow to them as it has been previously.

Other thoughts: The Senators starting selling tickets to their annual skills competition yesterday to be held on February 4th. Regular season tickets are expensive, but this is a great chance to see all the players for only $7.50 ($10.00 at the door). That reminds me: If you buy the tickets off of the capitaltickets.ca website, the surcharges added on come out to $10.00 anyway, but still, at least you don't have to wait in line to get your tickets. I've been to the last 3 or so and it's always a good time.

If you were considering buying a new Senators jersey (or any other team for that matter), think again. The NHL will be introducing new "streamlined" NHL jerseys at the all-star game in January, and the players will start wearing them next season. I'm assuming the design will be similar to the jerseys worn by Canada and others at the past Olympics, in any case, if you've been staring at your Mike Peluso jersey and think it's time for an upgrade, waiting one more year won't kill you.