"The Senators will keep their new look on the blueline.

Trying to get better defensive zone coverage and make off-season acquisition Sergei Gonchar comfortable, Senators coach Cory Clouston shuffled his pairings midway through Ottawa's win Friday night over the New Jersey Devils. The new combos will remain tonight as the club tries to create a two-game win streak Monday against the Atlanta Thrashers.

Gonchar will skate with Filip Kuba, while Gonchar's old partner Chris Phillips is going to be alongside Erik Karlsson. The only duo that is going to stay together is Matt Carkner and Chris Campoli.

Gonchar is minus-16 and hasn't been good.

"He knows he needs to be more responsible defensively," said Clouston. "Sometimes you get on that snowball and it just starts to spin the wrong way. I thought his last game was better. He had a real tough one (against the Rangers). Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong." "