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“That’s the way it’s always been in the past.”

Make no mistake, there are still scores to settle here.

“You’d see it even more if we were both fighting for a playoff spot or playoff points when the games are even more meaningful,” Borowiecki said. “There’s still a lot of natural dislike. I’m sure there’s a lot of guys over here they don’t like and there’s a lot of guys over there that we don’t like.

“It’s fun for the fans and fun for us because it gets you up to the game.”

Photo by Fred Chartrand / THE CANADIAN PRESS

THE LAST WORDS

Legendary TSN 1200 colour analyst Gord Wilson had one of the best seats in the house Saturday night between the benches for this one. A host on the NewRo broadcasts of Senators’ hockey games in the 1990s, Wilson was one of the first to ever work a game in the location at centre ice. This was the first time he did commentary on the radio with play-by-play voice Dean Brown. The best advice anyone could give Wilson: Keep your head up. … Newly acquired winger Max Veronneau wrote his astronomy exam Friday as he tries to finish his mechanical engineering degree at Princeton University. “It went decently well. I probably should have studied a little bit more, but I did fine,” Veronneau said. “It was good to get it over with because it was on my mind the last week. Now that it’s over, it’s a lot more relaxing.” … Centre Colin White missed his third straight game with a neck injury. He didn’t skate and the Senators are hopeful the rest will help his recovery. “We want it to be 100 per cent before we put him in the lineup,” Crawford said. “He’s practised the last couple of days and usually it’s after practice that he starts to feel the soreness and the strain from it. Our doctors and our medical people we keep him off the ice (for three days) and then we’ll make a further evaluation. He really wants to play, he wants to help us do whatever can to help us win games and continue his progress. At this point, you have to do the right thing. We have to give him time to heal. It hasn’t been responding with a single day off. Now, we’re going to give him a few days off and, hopefully, that will do the trick.” … Returning after missing Thursday’s victory over St. Louis with the flu, Borowiecki was asked how he was feeling: “Better. The hazmat suit isn’t on today. It was a rough 24 hours. We’ll call it the involuntary cleanse there, so I’m fully detoxed now.”