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The Ottawa Senators are probably pretty happy to finally be playing this seasons home opener, but they cant be too excited about who they have to face. The Senators try to snap a seven-game losing streak to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday evening. Senators defenceman Jared Cowan will be a healthy scratch again. “It sucks,” Cowan told the Ottawa Citizen. “I’ve just got to be better. I need a better start and better consistency.” You can catch all of the action LIVE on TSN5 and TSN Radio 1200 at 7pm et. Coverage gets underway on TSN Radio 1200 at 5:30pm et. Ottawa went 2-1-0 on a season-opening road trip, capping the swing with a 1-0 win over the Florida Panthers. Clarke MacArthur scored the games only goal at the 15:34 mark of the second period and Craig Anderson ended with 30 saves for his 27th career shutout. It was huge for us, as a group, to follow it up with two wins, Anderson said, referring to a season-opening loss in Nashville. Thats what it comes down to. You have to figure out how to win. Anderson has done that versus Florida, improving to 11-2-1 against his former club. That may have earned him another start tonight as the Senators kick off a four-game homestand. Anderson, though, has struggled when facing the Avalanche, who he also once played for. In three starts against them, he is 0-2-1 with a 6.35 goals against average and .826 save percentage. The Senators have not beaten the Avalanche since Dec. 12, 2005 in Colorado. They have not beaten the club at home since March 18, 2004, losing four straight as the host in this series. Colorado resumes a stretch of five of six on the road to start the season, a span that ends on Saturday versus Montreal. The Avalanche fell to 1-2-1 on the season with a 3-2 overtime loss to Toronto on Tuesday. The Maple Leafs Phil Kessel scored 34 seconds into the extra session. He retrieved a puck in the Colorado zone, had a step on Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie as he cut to the front of the net and swept the puck underneath Semyon Varlamov. Ryan OReilly and Matt Duchene both scored their first goals of the season for Colorado. Varlamov stopped 37 shots and Jarome Iginla had two assists for his first points with the Avs. Obviously in the third they had maybe more gas than we had, but overall I thought we played a good game, said Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy. Roy declared Varlamov a game-time decision tonight against the Senators as the netminder deals with a groin issue. Varlamov is 2-2-1 with a 3.21 GAA and .899 save percentage in five previous meetings with the Senators. If Varlamov cant play, Reto Berra will start for the Avalanche. Forward John Mitchell will return to the Avalanche lineup tonight after missing the previous four games with a head injury. Vapormax Sleva . 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Donations made by Sterling, who has owned the team since 1981, will be returned, Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles NAACP, said at a news conference Monday. Jenkins would not say how much money was involved. "There is a personal, economic and social price that Mr. Sterling must pay for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations," he said. Sterling, 80, had been scheduled to receive the honour on May 15 as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles branch of the nations oldest civil rights organization. He had been chosen to receive the award because of his long history of donating to minority charities and giving game tickets to inner city children, Jenkins said. The NAACP has honoured Sterling several times in the past. The Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation gave $5,000 to the NAACPs Los Angeles chapter in 2010, according to tax records, and Sterling was listed as his foundations only contributor. There were no records of further NAACP contributions in 2011 or 2012, the latest years for which records were available. Sterlings purported comments have overshadowed the NBAs opening playoff round and prompted an NBA investigation. The league is planning a Tuesday news conference to discusss the probe.dddddddddddd There has been no official confirmation that it is Sterling on the recording, portions of which were released over the weekend by TMZ and Deadspin. Sterling "is emphatic that what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs or feelings," according to a statement from team president Andy Roeser on Saturday. Neither Sterling nor his representatives have since commented on the controversy. Jenkins, of the NAACP, was asked how detrimental he considered Sterlings alleged remarks. "On a scale of one to 10? Eleven," he said. "It goes back to a segregation system and a time that nobody in America is proud of." Members of the state Legislatures black caucus joined those denouncing Sterling. Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, said lawmakers should not ignore the countrys history of discrimination. "Once again we are reminded of the ugliness and sometimes what appears to be the pervasive permanence of hatred," Weber said while speaking in support of a resolution declaring Holocaust Remembrance Week. "So I want to simply challenge us as we go forward to not think that, Yes, we see the past, but recognize the past has a profound impact on the present. And if we are not conscious (of it), it will direct our future." Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton and secretary of the black caucus, blasted Sterling and compared him to a "slave master" looking down at his African-American players. 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