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The Ottawa Senators are lucky they have a lot of defencemen.

They’re going to need them.

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Only 10 minutes after Marc Methot returned to the lineup from a lacerated finger injury that forced him to miss 10 games, the Senators were down another defenceman. They had to finish Game 2 — a 4-3 overtime win over the Boston Bruins — without defenceman Mark Borowiecki after he crashed into the boards.

Borowiecki went down hard and is listed as day-to-day.

“He was going to come back and we told him just stay put, we don’t want to aggravate it,” coach Guy Boucher said. “It actually looked better after the game. We’ll see. We’ve got good, quality depth with our defencemen so we’ll see if next game he’s OK.

“They lost a guy (Adam McQuaid), and it seems like every game every team is losing a guy. That’s playoffs and that’s why your depth comes into play. We’re extremely confident (our defence) is really solid so we’ll look at who comes in next game if he’s not ready. If he’s ready to go, we’ll have him in.”

The return of Methot was big for the Senators. He took Fredrik Claesson’s place in the lineup and played 18:12.

“I was expecting a few mistakes here and there or him being tentative — with or without the puck — and he looked like he never left,” said Boucher.

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