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After falling 3-2 in overtime on the road against the New York Islanders on Tuesday, the Ottawa Senators were hoping to get a boost in Thursdays return leg of the home-and-home with the buzz from the retirement tribute to longtime Senator Daniel Alfredsson. All it got was a 2-1 loss, the teams fifth one-goal defeat in the last seven games. The task doesnt get any easier as they head to the CONSOL Energy Center for a date with Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins Saturday. Viewers in the Senators region can watch the game live on TSN5 starting at 1pm et/2pm at. The game can also be heard live on TSN Radio 1200 Ottawa with coverage starting at 11am et. After one loss youve got some concern, winger Chris Neil said. You want to win as many games as possible, but right now were just finding ways to lose games. Having Bobby Ryan and Marc Methot healthy should help as Ottawa tries to avoid a fifth straight loss. Ryan returned Thursday after missing just two games with a fractured finger, and Methot - perhaps the Senators most reliable defenseman after Erik Karlsson - made his season debut after missing the first 24 games with a back injury. Winger Mark Stone, however, wont play after getting hit with a puck in Thursdays loss. The Senators went 2-0-1 in last seasons series behind a goal and three assists from Karlsson. Craig Anderson, currently on a five-game losing streak, stopped 73 of 75 shots in two appearances and helped hold Crosby without a point. After being the NHLs best offensive team - and quite possibly its best overall - for the majority of October and November, the Pittsburgh Penguins depth up front is dwindling and pucks arent going in. Theres still Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, but not much else. With just one goal in their last six periods and forwards dropping by the day, the Penguins try to move ahead Saturday as they host an Ottawa Senators team that cant seem to get over the hump in close games. Pittsburgh (17-6-2) led the league with an average of 3.67 goals through Nov. 21, helping it accumulate 28 points through 18 games with fewer defeats than any other team. Some recent personnel losses, however, have left the Penguins searching for answers offensively. Already without Pascal Dupuis (blood clots) and Beau Bennett (lower body) heading into this week, Pittsburgh lost fellow top-six forwards Chris Kunitz to a fractured foot in Tuesdays 1-0 win over New Jersey and Patric Hornqvist to a possible concussion in Thursdays 3-0 loss to Vancouver. With those four down, the Penguins top four wingers alongside Crosby and Malkin are Blake Comeau, Nick Spaling, Steve Downie and Jayson Megna. Getting desperate, Pittsburgh on Friday traded prospect Philip Samuelsson to Arizona for forward Rob Klinkhammer, who spent 15 games with the Senators in 2011-12. If (Hornqvists) out, then we all got to step up and find a way, Crosby told the Penguins official website. I dont think theres anyone here whos going to feel sorry for us. Other teams arent, so we just got to find a way to get through it. Crosby, tied for the NHL lead with 33 points, has none in his last three games and registered just three shots. The only longer point drought of his career was five games from Oct. 31-Nov. 10, 2009. The regression is continuing for Pittsburghs power play, which converted on 41.3 percent of its chances through 11 games. The Penguins are at 14.3 percent with the man advantage since Nov. 5 - among the NHLs bottom 10 - and theyve gone 0 for 9 over the past four games. Pittsburgh has averaged 2.00 goals a game over its last seven. I just think we need to play better, Crosby said. 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Haleps quarterfinal opponent will be the 27th-seeded Russian Kuznetsova, who upended 23rd-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4 to reach her seventh career French Open quarter. Kuznetsova is a two-time major champion, including a Roland Garros title in 2009. She was a runner-up at the French back in 2006. The 28-year-old former world No. 2 secured her first major title at the 2004 U.S. Open. The 10th-seeded gritty Italian Errani landed a bevy of drop shots in upending sixth-seeded former U.S. Open runner-up Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in just under two hours on the famed red clay. Errani blew a 4-1 lead in the first set when Jankovic stormed back to win four straight games to take tthe lead, at 5-4, but the Italian broke the Serb to level the stanza at 5-5.dddddddddddd Jankovic grabbed another lead at 6-5 and had a set point, but Errani saved it and eventually forced a tiebreak, which she won to assume control of the match. The second set was all Errani, who will now appear in a third straight quarterfinal at this Parisian major. She was the 2012 Roland Garros runner-up to Maria Sharapova. Her round-of-eight opponent will be 28th-seeded German and resurgent former top-10 star Andrea Petkovic, who came from behind to beat Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5. Petkovic reached the quarters here three years ago before missing the 2012 and 2013 French Opens due to injury. She actually considered retiring from tennis after a succession of ailments saw her drop out of the top 10 and plummet all the way down to No. 143. The quarterfinals will commence Tuesday, with a seventh-seeded Sharapova taking on rising Spaniard Garbine Muguruza and 14th-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro battling 18th-seeded Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who was an Aussie Open semifinalist in January. The Russian star Sharapova lost to Serena Williams in last years Roland Garros finale and completed a career Grand Slam with her lone French Open title two years ago. The Russians Sharapova and Kuznetsova are the only former champions still standing among the ladies. 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