Here is how Travis Green lined his team up at the morning skate.
Tkachuk-Stutzle-Giroux
Perron-Norris-Batherson
Greig-Pinto-Amadio
Highmore-Ostapchuk-Gaudette
Sanderson-Zub
Chabot-Hamonic
Kleven-Matinpalo
Anton Forsberg starts in goal.
Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 PM at the CTC. The game is available on TSN5 and TSN 1200. Streaming sites should pop up in the comment section closer to game time.
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It is admittedly difficult to focus on hockey today.
The news of Shawn Simpson’s tragic passing has the Sens community reeling. Reading and listening to the reactions to today’s news, it’s clear that Simmer had an incredible impact on this community and on Sens fans all around the city.
That includes the people that knew Shawn personally, the Sens fans that followed his broadcasting career and maybe most importantly, the people that found strength and inspiration in Shawn’s willingness to share his own struggles with mental health.
I didn’t know Shawn personally. We interacted online on a few occasions and I definitely walked into a “K” or two over the years. Shawn was also there during my live radio debut back in 2018. I remember walking in there and being so nervous I thought I was gonna pass out, meanwhile Simmer was wandering in and out of the booth, without a care in the world.
I still don’t know if I strung a sentence together but I remember Shawn’s laid back approach to the whole thing helped get me through it that day.
There are lots of stories just like that making the rounds online today.
Where Simmer had the biggest impact in this city though was in his willingness to share his own story and his own experience with mental health. The way he used his platform to discuss a deeply personal topic and open up about an issue that can be impossible to talk about ultimately changed lives. It always has and always should serve as a reminder that even behind screens and microphones, we’re all just people.
Thoughts go out to the family, friends and colleagues of Shawn Simpson.
