The morning after his teammates picked him up in Wednesday’s 5\u002D4 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators goaltender Cam Talbot was on the ice,…
Senators coach D.J. Smith will decide Friday whether Talbot or Anton Forsberg will start in the rematch against the Penguins. But with the Senators returning home immediately to face the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, both netminders will play.Advertisement 3Smith steered clear of criticizing Talbot, saying that it was time that the players won him a game because Talbot had stolen several games in December.
As rough as the outing was, the Penguins might have skated out of Canadian Tire Centre with a victory if Talbot had not made a point blank glove save off Jake Guentzel with the game deadlocked 4-4 late in regulation.Article content He says it was all about getting back up when you get knocked down, as was the case during Monday’s 2-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. After fanning on a clearing attempt in the first period, leading directly to the Blues second goal, nothing else got by him.
“I gave that one up in St. Louis and stopped the rest of them for the rest of the game after that, so it’s just a mindset,” he said. “Go out there and stop the next one and give the boys a chance to fight back. And that’s all I was trying to do even when I was fighting it. Your teammates are counting on you to make the next save.”Since Talbot’s hot December — he went 6-2-0 from Dec. 10-29 — he has struggled. Before defeating the Penguins, he had lost three straight and his save percentage of .
One, or both, needs to find a rhythm in the six games between now and the club’s 11-day break in early February, for the Senators to have any hope of eating into the gap between them and a wild card playoff spot.While Mathieu Joseph will play Friday, his first game since Dec. 8, the news on defenceman Artem Zub and Tyler Motte wasn’t so good. Motte won’t be back until after the February break and Zub, nursing the effects of blocking a shot last Saturday, will remain out for at least the weekend.
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