Stephen Halliday

But the weakness? It's the bottom six centers.

Ridley Gregg and Stephen Halliday are talented, but can they handle heavy minutes against elite matchups?

That's the concern.

And what about the defense beyond Chabot and Sanderson? Cameron Crotty and Tyler Cleveland are solid, but when you lose seven players like you did in Montreal, the strain shows.

The first two games, obviously senators practice this morning.

You had Tim Stutzla with Andre Burakovsky and Drake Batherson, Dylan cousins between William Eckman, and Fabian Zetterlin the third line shut down line Shane Pinto with Claude Giroux and Michael Amadio and then it was Stephen Halliday between Nick Cousins and Hayden Hodgson with Ridley Gregg getting his reps in at practice as well on the back end Jake Sanderson did not skate today but we're expecting him to be ready to go for Saturday and we'd expect him to play with Jordan Spence Thomas Chabot we've got with Nicholas Batten-Paolo Cam Crotty was getting a look though today and So we'll see how that all develops.

And we've got the pair that's been the most consistently together throughout training camp, Tyler Clevin with Carter Yakimchuk.

Hoyt Stanley was getting reps in with Jordan Spence today as well.

So yeah, I was surprised that Hoyt Stanley made the team.

I may be impressed more than surprised because we really started appreciating his game towards the end of last season and how he was able to look like a regular in Belleville just immediately after signing out of college.

But I feel like Pillsy real congratulations have to be in order for Cam Crotty, Hoyt Stanley, Carter Yakimchuk and Stephen Halliday.

You could say Hayden Hodgson, too.

All right, that's fair.

But it's more, Ross, I want Stephen Halliday on this team.

I know.

For me, I think he fits in well as a fourth-line center.

There's just a number.

Halliday.

There's a number of guys that it's like, okay, This guy might get an opportunity at some point in the top six or might be on the fourth line.

Like there's a lot of those types of guys.

They're still out there.

Gorno?

Big question mark for me is Stephen Halliday.

Yeah.

Ridley Gregg playing center between Claude Giroux and Michael Amadio.

And the fourth line is Stephen Halliday with Nick Cousins and Sammy Bley.

Let's focus on just the forwards here, Pillsy, because there's so much going on in each stage of the lineup.

Warren Fogle skated before practice, but not ready to play.

Don't read into that.

But Pinto, Nick Cousins, Michael Amadio, Ridley Gregg, Claude Giroux, Stephen Halliday.

Let's look at the bubble, guys, is really what this conversation needs to come down to.

Sammy Blake still with the NHL group, Hayden Hodgson still with the NHL group and Phil Tomasino still with the NHL group.