Paul, who's only other appearance for the Sens this season came in Stockholm, has skated in 26 NHL games for the Senators over the past 3 seasons and from what he's seen from him this year, the coach has been impressed.
"He's a big body and I thought he was very intense," shared Boucher. "The last 3 games that he played in the American League he showed that he was definitely the guy who deserved to come up. I thought he was in the right places and I actually liked his game in Sweden so when I pulled him out of the line-up, it wasn't because I didn't like his game. We just wanted to use more defencemen in the line-up...today it's the opposite."
The team didn't skate ahead of tonight's game but with some updates from the coach, here's what the Sens' projected line-up looks like against the Rangers...
Dzingel - Brassard - Stone
Pyatt - Duchene - Ryan
Hoffman - Pageau - DiDomenico
Burrows - Thompson - Paul
Claesson - Karlsson
Phaneuf - Ceci
Borowiecki - Oduya