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OTTAWA -- -- Under new coach Guy Boucher, the Ottawa Senators are determined to tighten up defensively this season.Their first attempt, Wednesday night at Canadian Tire Centre against the Toronto Maple Leafs, didnt turn out very well.The Senators, who allowed a league high 32.8 shots per game during the 2015-16 campaign, scored a 5-4 overtime victory over the Leafs despite being outshot 38-30. Goalie Craig Anderson was unbeatable to everyone except center Auston Matthews, who became the first player in NHL history to score four times in his debut.Anderson will be in goal again Saturday night when the Senators host the Montreal Canadiens.We know we have to allow less shots, said Boucher, who blamed the high total by the Maple Leafs on four penalties taken by his team. We need to improve that. We were on our way to doing it but when you lose that much momentum because youre on the penalty kill all the time and they get shots, thats gone down the drain.The Canadiens, who defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4-1 in their season opener Thursday, will remain on the road for their second game. Once again they will be without star goalie Carey Price, who is battling what the team calls a severe case of the flu.Goalie Al Montoya, who stopped 30 shots in Buffalo, will be back between the pipes for the Canadiens.Guys had the right mentality, Montreal captain Max Pacioretty said of the one-for-all approach in Prices absence. Guys sticking up for each other, a lot of selfless plays out there, some blocked shots, taking hits to make plays. Thats our motto for this team no matter who you are in the lineup.The Canadiens are expected to be bolstered by the return of defensemen Jeff Petry, who missed the opener with a knee injury.Montreal was concerned it would be without forward Andrew Shaw, but the league decided against any supplemental discipline for his slew foot on Sabres forward Johan Larsson.Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said Shaw will meet next week with general manager Marc Bergevin and NHL Department of Player Safety head Stephane Quintal for education.At the same time, Therrien said Shaw is an intense player and you want to make sure he doesnt lose that edge.The Senators will go with the same lineup they used against Toronto, which means defenseman Thomas Chabot, the teams first round selection in 2015, will be a healthy scratch for the second game in a row.Boucher said that Chabot will play in one of the teams back-to-back games next week, either in Detroit Monday or back in Ottawa against Arizona on Tuesday. At some point, the Senators have to decide if theyre keeping Chabot or sending him back to his junior team.Its not a developmental league, its a performance league, said Boucher. He will need to play to see if hes ready. If hes ready hell stay, and if hes not ready he wont stay.Stitched Football Jerseys Throwback . Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, announced Wednesday that the team would assign Swedish forward Elias Lindholm to his nations team for the upcoming tournament. Discount Football Jerseys Throwback . Rinne played two periods in his first game since left hip surgery in early May. Gabriel Bourque scored 3:07 into the second period and Austin Watson tallied 5:15 later for Nashville. http://www.cheapfootballthrowback.com/ . -- Quarterback Will Finch threw for 252 yards and three touchdowns, and Yannick Harou rushed in two scores as the No. Football Jerseys Throwback Outlet . 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The reporters, who posed as coaches, secretly filmed Rotich earlier this year and alleged he promised to give them and any athletes they brought to train in Kenya advance notice of doping tests there.There was a case warranting investigation against Rotich, the IAAF ethics board said, in relation to potential subversion of the anti-doping control process in Kenya.The allegations were published when Rotich was with Kenyas team at the Olympics. Rotich, who is a retired army major, is the head of a regional athletics federation in western Kenya. He was arrested when he returned to Kenya from Rio de Janeiro and is also facing criminal charges.Rotich is the fifth official at the Kenyan athletics federation to be put under investigation by the IAAF for allegedly covering up doping. The Athletics Kenya president, vice president, chief executive and another senior official have all been suspended and are being investigated.Also Friday, a Kenyan 800-meter runner caught up in a separate doping scandal at the Olympics told The Associated Press he has explained everything after a coach was in possession of his accreditation and allegedly posed as the athlete at a doping test.Ferguson Rotich, who is no relation to Michael Rotich, ran in the 800 heats on the first day of track and field at the Olympics, qualified for the semifinals, and then rushed through the media interview zone shaking his head and declining to answer questions over the doping test issue.dddddddddddd He finally told the AP I have explained everything before leaving without further comment.The coach involved was also sent home from the Olympics, while the International Olympic Committee opened a disciplinary investigation over the incident at the athletes village.This isnt over, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Friday. We will take action if necessary against both.But Adams also said he wanted to clarify some aspects of the incident.He said the coach, John Anzrah, had not given a doping sample while posing as the athlete, contradicting Kenyan officials who said Anzrah did go as far as give a doping sample and sign forms in the name of Ferguson Rotich.Instead, Anzrah was using Ferguson Rotichs accreditation to get in to the athletes dining area for breakfast, Adams said. Doping control officers came looking for the athlete on Wednesday and found a man with his accreditation and asked him to come to doping control. He was asked to show his passport, and officials saw it was different from the accreditation.It was clear he didnt take a doping test by the athlete or for the athlete, Adams said. Adams also said Ferguson Rotich was properly tested.Rotich finished second in his 800 heat on Friday and will run in the semis on Saturday.---AP Sports Writer Stephen Wilson contributed to this report. ' ' '