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Pas de changements à prévoir chez les #Sens. Zenon Konopka et Matt Carkner devraient être laissés de côté.
Carkner remains a healthy scratch. The heavyweight d-man has 29 PIM through 23 games.
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Lee in Carkner out
Carkner takes a seat in the press box. The heavyweight has two points and 29 PIM through 23 games.
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One lineup change for Sens here in Phoenix: Matt Carkner in; Mark Borowiecki out.
Carkner gets back into the third defensive pairing. He has 25 PIM through 18 games.
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Mark Borowiecki and Bobby Butler will be back in for the #sens against #kings and Matt Carkner and Andre Petersson will be out. #BSens
Carkner once again takes a seat. The heavyweight has 25 PIM through 18 games.
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Carkner back in.
Carkner has 25 PIM through 17 games as the Sens enforcer.
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Carkner in and Lee sits. #Sens
Carkner has a goal and two points in 14 games with 20 PIM.
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MacLean confirms: Carkner out and Lee in for tonight in PIT.
The heavyweight draws out of the lineup tonight. He has two points and 18 PIM in 13 games.
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Looks like Matt Carkner will be the healthy scratch for the #sens against the #devils tonight.
Carkner has seven PIM through nine games which is not what you would expect from your enforcer.
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Tough guy Terry Carkner going in the lineup in place of Brian Lee.
Carkner could drop the gloves with Cody McCormick tonight. He has seven PIM through his first eight games of the season.
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Carkner will pair with Rundblad.
Carkner plays for the first time this season and should help the Swedish rookie further adapt. He could drop the gloves with enforcer Steve McIntyre.
Call up / Send down
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators today recalled Matt Carkner from the club’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Binghamton Senators. The defenceman joined the B-Sens Dec. 1 on a conditioning assignment.
Carkner is expected to draw in this weekend.
Matt Carkner will join Sens in New Jersey tomorrow, but won't play. Saturday vs Vancouver is earliest return date for him.
If Carkner gets regular playing time, he could be worth a look as a PIM stream. The defender is a bona fide heavyweight which should give him some usefulness in fantasy hockey.
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Carkner will play Wednesday in Binghamton then be available to suit up for Ottawa anytime after Thursday game in N.J. #nhl #sens
Carkner will add some toughness to the Sens lineup when he gets back in. Look for Brian Lee and one of the two rookies to rotate in and out of the lineup.
Call up / Send down
The #sens have sent defenceman Matt Carkner to AHL Binghamton on a conditioning assignment.
Carkner going to the AHL is a good sign that he will be back in action in a few games. He may be a decent pickup considering how often he fights.
Everybody else came out at 11:00am, with Matt Carkner once again being a full participant.
Carkner's return adds grit and another heavyweight to the lineup. However, it creates a logjam on the blue line with David Rundblad and Brian Lee already vying for playing time. Carkner's ability to post double-digits in points while racking up 150 PIM made him unique in fantasy leagues and should garner some interest once healthy.
Matt Carkner has been cleared to practice fully; could return sometime in next 2 weeks
Carkner's return adds grit and another heavyweight to the lineup. However, it creates a logjam on the blue line with David Rundblad and Brian Lee already vying for playing time. Carkner's ability to post double-digits in points while racking up 150 PIM made him unique in fantasy leagues and should garner some interest once healthy.
Matt Carkner, on the road back after knee surgery, also practised with the team on Wednesday morning.
That’s a positive sign, too, said MacLean, but his return is not as close as Alfredsson’s. Carkner’s still probably a few weeks away.
Carkner's return will further complicate the back end with either one of the eight NHL defenders moving back to the AHL or moving the heavyweight back to forward. The Winchester, Ontario had been a valuable player in the past and should be a decent PIM stream.
Butler and Carkner on the ice this morning...not ready to play yet but obviously gettting closer to returning to the lineup
Carkner's presence certainly will give opposing teams less leeway with the Sens more talented players. From a fantasy hockey perspective he remains a solid PIM stream on the blue line. Monitor him closely as few defensemen can match his production.
The knee was the same one that had been operated on in April. Murray said Carkner may have aggravated his knee by the vigourous training he did this summer to rehabilitate it. He needed the surgery to clean out chips that had come loose.
After posting 326 PIM over the past two seasons, Carkner should be viewed as a legitimate heavyweight in the League. Only Theo Peckham posted more PIM last season, so the 30-year-old will be hard to replace on your roster.