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Cowen to make season debut for Senators

Tuesday, 04.16.2013 / 12:50 PM

By Erin Nicks - NHL.com Correspondent / 2012-2013 At the Rink blog

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Cowen to make season debut for Senators

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Senators defenseman Jared Cowen will make his season debut Tuesday when the team plays the Carolina Hurricanes at Scotiabank Place.

Cowen underwent surgery in November to repair a torn labrum in his left hip after being injured in an American Hockey League game, and the thinking at the time was he would be lost for the remainder of the season.

It's a huge boost for an Ottawa team that is without Erik Karlsson (Achilles) on its blue line.

"It's a big day," Cowen said. "I've had this day in mind for a while. I picked it a long time ago because it's not a back-to-back and it's at home. I wanted to start at home. I worked really hard to get here. Sometimes rehab doesn't go the way you want it to. A lot of it has been luck. When I'm on the ice doing drills or skating, I don't think about my hip at all, and my doctor said that's the key. All systems are go."

Cowen played in all 82 games for the Senators as a rookie last season, posting five goals and 17 points. The 22-year-old was a first-round pick (No. 9) in the 2009 NHL Draft.

Here are the projected lineups for the Hurricanes and Senators:

HURRICANES

Jiri Tlusty – Eric Staal – Alexander Semin

Jeff Skinner – Jordan Staal – Chad LaRose

Patrick Dwyer – Riley Nash – Tuomo Ruutu

Nicolas Blanchard – Kevin Westgarth

Tim Gleason – Justin Faulk

Jay Harrison – Joe Corvo

Jamie McBain – Bobby Sanguinetti

Marc-Andre Bergeron

Justin Peters

Dan Ellis

Injured: Drayson Bowman, Joni Pitkanen, Tim Brent, Cam Ward, Tim Wallace

SENATORS

Milan Michalek – Kyle Turris – Daniel Alfredsson

Cory Conacher – Mika Zibanejad – Jakob Silfverberg

Guillaume Latendresse – Zack Smith – Chris Neil

Colin Greening –Jean-Gabriel Pageau – Erik Condra

Chris Phillips – Marc Methot

Jared Cowen – Eric Gryba

Patrick Wiercioch – Sergei Gonchar

Craig Anderson

Robin Lehner

Scratched: Andre Benoit, Mike Lundin, Peter Regin, Jim O'Brien

Injured: Mike Hoffman, Jason Spezza, Erik Karlsson

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