I'm not sure if Zibanejed, Da Costa or Rundblad will be playing at the NHL level this year. If they don't make the team, I'd expect the lineup to look something like this:

Filatov - Spezza - Butler
Michalek - Regin - Alfredsson
Foligno - Smith - Neil
Greening - Konopka - Condra
(X) Winchester

Karlsson - Gonchar
Phillips - Lee
Kuba - Carkner

Anderson
Auld

Basically, my lines would be something like this:
Michalek-Spezza-Alfedsson
Foligno-Zibanejed-Butler
Filatov-Regin-Neil
Greening-Konopka-Smith

Karlsson-Gonchar
Phillips-Kuba
Runblad-Lee

Increases: Karlsson (our best defence, was in the all star game)
Spezza: Led the team in pts in 60 games
Decreases: Neil (line 3-4 tough guy at best)
Alfredsson: Worst season for a long time, is also aging

Will Mika Zibanejad be in NHL 12? He wasn't even in NHL 11

i think so, as they have all the other top draft picks in the demo...

Chris Phillips has an 87 Defensive Awareness rating, which should be lowered significantly. He was a league worst -35 (891st best in the league!)

I'll admit Phillips had a bad year, but so did the rest of the team. Almost every player on the Senators' blueline had an abysmal +/-, and Phillips typically played shutdown against the opponents' top lines. His league-worst rating is more indicative of the Senators' terrible year as a whole rather than an actual lack of defensive skill.

The majority of the sens last year had awful +/-. I think this was because Elliott couldn't stop a beach ball if he wanted to. Doesn't really help when the whole team is playing with the other team and the goalie is letting in everything. (And I watched about 60 sens games last year... it was always like that with Elliott and Leclair). Sens games were a lot closer than the score made it seem.

Also Zibanejad is in the game... but he's a RW instead of C.

I can't find Zibanejad anywhere. I think that it's not fair to not include him. Plus what are Leclaire and Anderson doing on the sens at the same time? Isn't Leclaire a free agent? He stank it up in Ottawa, I wouldn't want him on the team even if he paid back the millions he was paid to play in the injured reserve list.

Does anyone else experience a lot of lag in the game even when playing off-line?

Does anyone know if Mika Zibanejad, Mark Borowiecki, Derek Grant, Louie Caporusso, Patrick Cannone are in the nhl 12 game?

jason spezza is at best an 84 overall

phillips and karlsson should be lowered to 81.

zibanejad is a center and made the main club rooster as 2nd line center and jakob Silferberg is a center as well. When will the full rooster updates be made the Ottawa made its finally rooster cuts

I also forgot to mention Cowan proved to be Ottawas best Defenceman in training camp his overall should be higher and be on the main rooster same with Rundblad

Karlsson is Ottawa's best defenseman, Cowan has the potential to be good though. Let's wait until he plays real NHL games before saying he is the best they have. Besides, they still do have Phillips as well who is a pretty good dman. Rundblad, preseason looked really shaky to say the least so will have to wait and see if he stays for the full season.

Yes but they have him with a lower overall then Kuba who is a useless D-man in my opinion. I understand he hasnt played much in the NHL yet but even in Preseason he showed he can do more then Kuba. He is going to be more of an all around D-man

masq26 wrote:jason spezza is at best an 84 overall

phillips and karlsson should be lowered to 81.

87 he had a bit of bad years recently but what do u expect when your teams not that great? other than these last 2 years that last 4 he has 73 points, 92, 87 and 90 points... prety good.

and when he did really good he didnt even hava a full season when he had 92 points he was in 76 games, 87 points in 67 games and 90 points in 68 games. imagine if he had a full season when he was scoring in the 90's?