"Goaltending was the least of the Senators' concerns.

Now it's moved to the top of the list.

As the Senators made their way home Saturday after picking up 3-of-4 points during stops in Minnesota and Denver, they have to be wondering where their next save is going to come from.

They haven't been getting enough lately.

Then there's Pascal Leclaire's latest injury.

It was no surprise he couldn't start on Friday against the Avalanche in Denver — a 6-5 overtime loss — after suffering a lower-body injury in warmup.

This has been going on for Leclaire's whole career, so it shouldn't come as a shock that he couldn't play when his team needed him.

Leclaire was coming off two straight wins for the first time since Dec. 28 of last season — including a 23-save performance in a 3-1 victory Thursday over the Minnesota Wild.

The decision to go back to Leclaire was supposed to be his road out of coach Cory Clouston's doghouse.

Instead, all the troubled netminder did was dig himself an even bigger hole.

"It doesn't really change our gameplan, but it doesn't make it easy, that's for sure," said Clouston. "It doesn't make it easy on anybody. We just have to play with the cards that we're dealt."

It doesn't help that Brian Elliott — unfairly forced into duty when Leclaire skated over to the bench midway through warmup to inform the trainer he wasn't playing — is struggling.

Elliott was told the night before he wasn't going to start. Then, minutes before game time, he was thrown to the wolves against one of the NHL's highest-scoring teams and ended up getting embarrassed.

No wonder Clouston was seething. "We didn't get a save when we needed one," said Clouston after the loss to the Avs.

You have to wonder what the Senators do now. "