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The Ottawa Senators will celebrate Daniel Alfredssons career at Canadian Tire Centre tonight, but afterwards they have the New York Islanders to deal with. Watch the game live tonight in Senators region at 7:30pm et/8:30pm at. The game can also be heard live on TSN Radio Ottawa 1200 with coverage starting at 5:30pm et. The Senators (10-9-5) fell to 3-5 in overtime and shootouts Tuesday, their fifth defeat in six games. Clarke MacArthur leads the team with nine goals but his score Tuesday marked his first in seven games. Its good to get a point, but bittersweet to lose in overtime, MacArthur said. Right wing Bobby Ryan, whose eight assists rank third on Ottawa, missed his second straight game because of a broken finger. Craig Anderson continues to struggle in net, dropping his fourth straight start Tuesday. Hes given up at least three goals in six consecutive outings after starting the season 4-2-2 with a 1.72 GAA. He hasnt lost five straight starts since an eight-game skid from Jan. 21-Feb. 11, 2012. New York won both trips to Ottawa last season after dropping 22 of its previous 32 games there. The Islanders are the hottest team in the NHL, but theyll have to try to continue their success with a growing injury list. New York (18-7-0) is a league-best 12-2-0 since Nov. 5, averaging a plus-6.5 margin in shots per game after averaging a more modest plus-1.9 margin in its first 11 contests. Ryan Strome has five goals and six assists in that stretch while John Tavares has six goals and five assists. Strome scored in Tuesdays 3-2 overtime victory over Ottawa, while Tavares has one point in his last five meetings. Thomas Hickey scored the winner, pushing the Islanders to 8-0 in games decided after regulation. Brock Nelson assisted on Hickeys goal and scored his team-leading 11th of the season in the second period. Jaroslav Halak tied a team record with his 10th straight win, matching Billy Smiths run in 1982. Its not clear if hell get the nod and a chance to pass that mark Thursday. Halak owns a 1.26 goals-against average during his winning streak, shaking off a rough stretch that saw him drop four of his first seven starts with a 3.44 GAA. He stopped 16 shots Tuesday to end a four-game personal losing streak versus Ottawa. It wasnt an easy game, Halak said. Its a team effort. I think everybody deserves the credit. New York put defensemen Johnny Boychuk and Lubomir Visnovsky on the injured list Wednesday. Boychuk, who ranks second among the teams blueliners with a plus-seven rating, has missed three games with a lower-body injury. Visnovsky, who is third at plus-five, has missed two in a row with an upper-body injury. The Islanders also lost another defenseman in Travis Hamonic to an upper-body injury Tuesday while right wing Cal Clutterbuck left with a lower-body injury. Both are day to day. 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Cron hit an RBI single on the first pitch he saw in the major leagues, doubled his second time up and hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth inning to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a 5-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night. Tom Waddle Jersey . The two teams will play through the completion of the game starting at 5pm ct on Wednesday. The regularly scheduled Wednesday night matchup will follow that and will now be seven innings.Despite a recent trip to Seattle, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says expansion is not currently on the horizon for the league. In a one-hour interview with TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun on Friday, Bettman discussed a variety of topics, including expansion, outdoor games and changes to the NHL draft. When asked about his recently reported trip to Seattle with deputy commissioner Bill Daly, Bettman said the visit simply coincided with being on the west coast for a playoff game in Anaheim. "We had a few hours to kill, we were in the neighborhood, so I figured Id go to Seattle to find out what the building story was," Bettman told LeBrun. "We werent there campaigning, we werent asking for anything, and thats been misreported. Based on the level of interest were getting from lots of people in Seattle and a fair amount of uncertainty and confusion about the building, we decided Lets go find out for ourselves what the story is with the building. And theres no prospect of a building right now." Investor Chris Hansen currently holds the rights with the city of Seattle to build a new arena, however Hansen will not move ahead with the building process until he has secured an NBA franchise. Hansen is not pursuing an NHL team for the arena, but would like to have an NHL team as a tenant of the arena under another owner. "The sense I get is he doesnt want to build a building just to have a tenant," Bettman said. "And since he seems to have things tied up with the city for the next three years, give or take, theres no certainty about a building." Bettmans takeaway from the Seattle tour; that "the possibility of a new arena is at best uncertain." Bettman said he is also aware of the arena being built in Quebec City, as well as the plans for an MGM Arena in Las Vegas, however expansion for his league currently remains off the table. "Things are popping up, but were not in an expansion process. Could we get to one at some point? Maybe.dddddddddddd But right now were not focused on going through an expansion process." While the league may not be expanding franchises, expanding fan bases through outdoor games will continue. The commissioner acknowledged that though the number of outdoor games will drop from the record six played last season, the league will play more than one outdoor game in 2014-15. Bettman explained that the elevated number of games this past season stemmed from various circumstances. "This year we used those games in a variety of ways. Part of it was promoting us going into the Olympics, part of it was promoting it coming out. And doing it in New York [around the Super Bowl] with two games...we had to do lots of stuff. Our people did an extraordinary job, but we really taxed things to the limit. But also, interestingly enough, the Olympic break let us set up for more games. So, itll be more than one and less than six next season." As the league continues its tradition of adding excitement with outdoor games, the discussion of adding more excitement to the draft has also come up. "The GMs have asked us whether or not more teams should be eligible for the lottery result moving up more teams and whether or not the odds should be adjusted a little bit. Thats something were looking at," Bettman said. Bettman told LeBrun it would be premature to say if the adjustments would be made in time for the 2015 Draft, but said changes are being contemplated. "We havent finished a proposal thats been circulated... I think if were going to make an adjustment, itll be that more picks are selected by the lottery and we might smooth out the odds a little. But again, thats not something were at yet." The current NHL draft process gives every non-playoff team a chance at the first overall selection, with percentages declining from 25 percent. The 2014 NHL Draft will take place on June 27-28 in Philadelphia. ' ' '