Steve might be our in-house Photoshop genius, but that doesn’t mean that James doesn’t occasionally get in on the action.

The Leafs have come back down to earth, but let’s not be classless about it. And besides, the Sens are trending up but face Tim Thomas, who has traditionally owned them, and the Bruins, who have a habit of making the offensively-challenged Sens look especially pee-wee by playing Chara 47 minutes a game.

Spezza gets re-inserted into tonight’s lineup, though we lose Michalek for a week. Here’s hoping that Kovalev keeps stirring that pot of black magic and that Spezza wants to impress the scouts in the audience who are there to assess if he’s worth whoever they have on their team who is the equivalent of Milan Michalek. My prediction is 4-1 Bruins, but only because Thomas’ save percentage is threatening to head into negatives and Elliott needs to let in his obligatory two softies. Do we see Lehner tonight? Probably not.

By the way, the Sens Store is having some kind of crazy deal right now where if you buy one jersey you get one of those idiotic black SNES jersies for free. Which, as James pointed out, is pretty damn rare, and others pointed out may indicate a new third jersey is on the way.

Last night Sergei Gonchar was gifted his portrait in honor of his 1000th game. It was a little hard to make it out from where I was seated (second last row, third deck, natch), but The CCFR, being an extremely well-connected organization, has managed to obtain an e-copy of said potrait:

[Extremely big ups to Image Dude Steve for generating this using what we can only assume was a supercomputer.]

Sens play Pens tonight, but I think it’s on a channel that you only receive if you hook up all three current generation video game systems to your credit card and strike the contraption with lightning. Sens will take their weak ass defence into the Pens’ Haunted Xcel Manufacturing Concern. Speaking of haunted, do we give up the ghost on Elliott being a starting goaltender and throw Lehner (and our entire season) in? Can Crosby score his usual three points against the Sens with a folding chair on his wing? Can Fleury stink enough to give Gonchar his first goal as a Senator? Will Kovalev continue to act like a sad panda, refusing everything but bamboo as he slowly starves to death? Tune in (if you can) to find out.

Personally, I think it’s time for the Sens to unveil their secret weapon: